Epic Mountain Gear will maintain its preseason ski and snowboard clearance gross sales occasion Sept. 2-11, Vail Resorts introduced Wednesday.
Rival Christy Sports activities beforehand introduced its Powder Daze occasion shall be held those self same dates. Each retailer chains are promising reductions of as much as 60% on gear left over from final yr, and former years, in an effort to make room for this yr’s product traces.
Epic used to name its occasion Ski Rex, a holdover moniker from when its shops have been owned by Colorado Ski & Golf, which Vail Resorts acquired in 2010 and renamed Epic Mountain Gear in 2018. Two years in the past, it retired the Ski Rex label, however the Broomfield-based firm is debuting a brand new identify this yr: The Epic Drop.
Based on a Vail Resorts information launch, winter attire and equipment shall be discounted as much as 40%, whereas bicycles shall be discounted as much as 30% as its shops clear ground area for winter stock.
Labor Day weekend is the standard time interval for enormous ski and snowboard gear gross sales in Colorado and kicks off the runup to the snow sports activities season.
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