2026-27 Pass Rosters, Round Two: What Changed Since Our Last Update
September 28, 2026 · News
Our September 11 roundup covered the big 2026-27 pass moves: Indy crossing 300 resorts, the new Snow Pass, Epic's Crans-Montana acquisition, and Mountain Collective and Powder Alliance trimming their rosters. The passes kept moving after that. Here's what's changed since, plus a season-ending story out of Utah that has nothing to do with pass politics and everything to do with a wildfire.
Ikon's latest wave
Between September 10 and September 24, Ikon Pass added three destinations in Asia as full partners: Beidahu Ski Resort and Lake Songhua Resort in Jilin, China, and Madarao Mountain Resort in Nagano, Japan. All three carry the standard full-partner terms: 7 days on full Ikon, 5 days on Ikon Base, no blackouts on either tier.
Two smaller US areas joined Ikon's 2-day bonus tier in the same window: Caberfae Peaks in Michigan and Snowy Range Ski Area, a small hill in Wyoming's Medicine Bow National Forest that's now live in the FirstChair directory for the first time. Bonus-tier access is full-Ikon-only and carries holiday blackouts, a notch below the full-partner terms above.
Separately, SilverStar Mountain Resort in BC was promoted from that same 2-day bonus tier, where it debuted last season, up to full 7-day Ikon partner status for 2026-27.
We also closed two long-standing gaps in our own Ikon data this update: Aspen Mountain, the fourth Aspen Snowmass peak alongside Highlands, Buttermilk, and Snowmass, and Megève in the French Alps, both now tracked on Ikon and Mountain Collective.
Epic goes deeper into the Zillertal
Epic Pass expanded its Austrian footprint with four new Zillertal Arena resorts for 26/27: Zillertal Arena, Hochzillertal, Hochfügen, and Spieljoch, joining existing partners Mayrhofen and Hintertux Glacier for six total Zillertal-area resorts on the pass. Epic Pass holders get 5 consecutive days of unrestricted access across the valley, running October 1, 2026 through May 15, 2027 (see SnowBrains' coverage).
We also added Alpine Valley in Munson Township, Ohio, a Vail Resorts property, to FirstChair's data. It's a different mountain from the unrelated, untagged Alpine Valley in Wisconsin already in our directory - same name, no connection.
Indy's 60th partner
If you missed it, Smugglers' Notch joined the Indy Pass as partner number 60 in Indy's 2026-27 expansion, pushing the coalition past 300 resorts worldwide. We covered the full story, including Indy Pass Director Erik Mogensen's personal history with the mountain, in a dedicated post.
On the data side, we added three more Indy partners this update: Hilltop Ski Area in Anchorage, Alaska, Marble Mountain on Newfoundland's west coast, and Hockley Valley Resort outside Toronto, Ontario.
The quiet side: who left
Passes announce additions with press releases and personal letters from the pass director. Drops mostly don't get one.
Arapahoe Basin remains off Mountain Collective for 2026-27, a carryover from its departure after Alterra's acquisition of the resort (the split actually took effect for the 2025-26 season, not this one, but A-Basin still isn't back on Mountain Collective's 2026-27 roster). It's still a full Ikon Pass destination.
Powder Alliance's roster shrank by five for 2026-27: Castle Mountain Resort (Alberta), Lost Trail Powder Mountain (Montana/Idaho), Marmot Basin (Alberta), Turoa (New Zealand), and Whakapapa (New Zealand) are all gone from the coalition's current site. We covered this in the September 11 post, and we still haven't found a single announcement explaining any of the five - each is confirmed only by its absence from powderalliance.com's current resort list. For Turoa and Whakapapa, both on Mount Ruapehu, the timing lines up with ownership changes on the mountain (Pure Turoa since 2024, a new Whakapapa Holdings concession finalized in 2025), but no source ties that directly to the Powder Alliance exit. All five mountains are still live on FirstChair, just without the reciprocal badge.
Marmot Basin, worth noting, stays on Mountain Collective - it only dropped Powder Alliance, not both passes.
Eagle Point: no season at all
Eagle Point Resort in Beaver, Utah, won't open for the 2026-27 season. The resort announced the closure on August 3, and it's still listed as an Indy Pass partner, flagged with a "26/27 Update" notice rather than removed from the roster.
The cause was the Cottonwood Fire, a human-caused wildfire that started June 22, 2026, and grew to roughly 97,000 acres, one of the largest fires in Utah history. It burned through roughly half of Eagle Point's own 600 skiable acres, destroyed Canyonside Lodge, and damaged four of the resort's five chairlifts. Flooding on the burn scar followed in July, washing out State Route 153, the resort's only paved access road, which the Utah Department of Transportation then closed indefinitely. Eagle Point is offering affected passholders a refund, a deferral to 2027-28, or the option to donate their pass value to BeaverTUF, the resort's fire-recovery nonprofit.
One clarification worth making plainly: Eagle Point is not Eaglecrest Ski Area in Juneau, Alaska. The names get confused, but they're unrelated resorts in different states, and Eaglecrest is open and unaffected by any of this.
What FirstChair updated
Alongside the roster changes above, we cleaned up 13 long-standing duplicate mountain records this update, cases like Arapahoe Basin, Revelstoke, and Andermatt-Sedrun that had been sitting in our data as two separate entries for the same physical resort. Old links still resolve; they now redirect to the single merged page. Combined with the new mountains above, FirstChair's directory sits at 498 mountains today, fewer than last count despite the additions, because deduping 13 pairs removed more records than the new resorts added.
Browse the current rosters on our Ikon, Epic, Indy, Mountain Collective, and Powder Alliance hub pages, or check the full mountain directory for anything we've missed.