Ski applications are not really new to the industry, these are locator-based applications willing to find for you the best skiing and snow boarding slopes they can ever decipher; these applications are said to mingle with your personal sports life, performance and such. Aside for the former declared top 5 contenders such as the Snocator, Phresheez Live maps, The North Face’s Snow report, the 3D iTrailmap, and the AR Realski, Vail Resorts now produces a promising contender called EpicMix which was said to combine several other application features never seen from the other former trends.
Joe Lindsey in wired.com’s Playbook features the said all new freely downloadable App for iPhone. Vail Resorts CEO Rob Katz says it all, “EpicMix has the ability to track your physical accomplishments, similar to Nike+, and then combine it with the community experience of location-based social media, similar to applications like Gowalla,”. The application’s official release on Keystone was set in early November 5 as the software was unveiled just early this week. The application runs through Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) scanners on 5 of the offers Vail Resorts mountains. The newest software was said to peek on more further to the future of participation sports and shuns away from the plainly laid skiing industry.




