Vail Resorts Epic Mix Adds Lift Line Wait Time

There is a cool new Vail Resorts Epic Mix feature that is being added for the upcoming ski and ride season. SAM Magazine out of Broomfield, Colorado shared this awesome news with us. This season Vail Resorts’ EpicMix app will give users access to real-time, up-to-the-minute lift line wait times across 55 core chairlifts and gondolas. Billed EpicMix Time, the added feature will be live across Vail Resorts’ four Colorado resorts for the 2015-16 season with plans to expand the technology to its other ski areas in upcoming seasons. Epic Mix will now know how long skiers and riders have been standing in a lift line, and has the capability of giving its users a head’s up so they can avoid lengthy wait times.

“EpicMix Time delivers time transparency to our guests, showing them lift line wait times across the mountain, providing them with information to choose where to ski and ride, and giving them more time on the slopes,” said Kirsten Lynch, executive vice president and chief marketing officer of Vail Resorts.

To gather the data, Vail Resorts said its “applying unique and sophisticated analytics to anonymous location data generated by smart phones to calculate reliable information for our guests.” EpixMix accesses data from each user through Wi-Fi and Bluetooth signals. This “crowd-sourced” data is then calculated in order to provide estimated lift line wait times.

Robert Urwiler, Vail Resorts’ executive vice president and chief information officer, said EpicMix Time is similar to apps showing traffic flow like to continue reading click here.

by Troy Hawks for SAM Magazine

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Photo Credits: Vail Resorts

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