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Burke, Tenney, Resorts in Chile, Europe Join 2025-26 Indy Pass

Limited number of passes on sale to the general public today for $369 adult, $209 kids 12 and under; renewal discounts available

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Everywhere, all the time, everything seems to cost more. $288 lift tickets to ski 30 percent of Park City. My White River Junction Taco Bell pitstop last month ate the better part of a 20-dollar-bill. We’re all Very Mad about the price of eggs right now I think (did I just piss off half my readership? I frankly don’t even know which side is supposed to be mad about this, but it doesn’t have to be a political take – personally, I blame the chickens, one of whom I saw buying a walk-up lift ticket at Park City just the other day).

But somehow, as we hurdle the current winter and sprint into 2025-26 multi-mountain pass sales season, the price of an Indy Pass remains impossibly, stupidly low:

Skiers would trample grandmothers on a Wal-Mart Black Friday to lock in those prices for a handful of days at Mt. Mass Market – and indeed Indy’s menu echoes rates for one- to four-day Epic or Ikon Passes. But, somewhat unbelievably even as we enter year seven of this impossible product, 2025-26 Indy Passes are loaded with two days each at a guaranteed minimum of 250 ski areas.

Indy officials expect that this gigantic roster will include the return of all 237 current partners (181 Alpine, eight Allied, four Cat skiing, and 44 cross-country). Six new (sort of) ski areas joined the pass this morning, taking the likely 2025-26 lineup to 242 (Burke will convert from Allied status to full two-day status):

The cross-country center at Mt. Washington Alpine, an existing Alpine Indy partner in British Columbia, is the sixth new Indy Pass partner for 2025-26.

These are significant additions. With the additions of Tenney and Burke, Indy now delivers passholders two days each at 25 New England ski areas, including 15 with greater than 1,000 feet of vert. The new resorts in Italy and Austria push Indy to 10 partners in Europe and enable a traipse-around in the heart of the Alps. And Corralco is Indy’s first partner in the Southern Hemisphere, a small (by number of ski areas), but important market that empowers Earthlings to ski year-round.

Here is what the 2025-26 Indy Pass roster could look like if all Alpine partners stay put – passholders will be able to request a refund by Dec. 10 if any one of these ski areas decides not to return next winter, or if the total number of Indy Pass partners fails to reach 250 by Dec. 1:

Here’s a deeper look at each of Indy’s new Alpine partners, and what they mean for this rapidly growing product and its passholders:

Below the paid subscriber jump: Burke the Gallant, Tenney is the G.O.A.T. of shutdowns, why South America matters, EuroGrowth, and more.

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