Over 300 Vail employees volunteer during 10th annual EpicPromise Week

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. — More than 300 employees from Vail resorts at Lake Tahoe - Heavenly, Kirkwood and Northstar - joined in during the 10th year of Vail's EpicPromise Week and volunteered hundreds of hours with local community programs focused on youth, education and the environment. This year they teamed up and contributed to four different projects around Lake Tahoe.

Heavenly Mountain Resort employees volunteered at two locations: the University of Nevada’s Cooperative Extension facility, which hosts the Nevada 4-H Camp, and Sierra House Elementary School, which educates and connects kids to nature. Volunteers built fences, landscaped flower beds, created walking paths, removed green waste and junk, painted and generally improved the appearance of these important community facilities.

Northstar California Resort partnered with Truckee Trails and the U.S. Forest Service to help restore the historic Old 40 China Wall site on Donner Summit. The two day project consisted of removing graffiti from the exterior of the train tunnels, rock wall construction to protect cultural petroglyphs, and trail and stair construction to access the train tunnels.

Kirkwood Mountain Resort partnered with Two Sentinels Girls Scout Camp at Kirkwood Lake to do critical trail work and to paint cabins. This High Sierra camp has been providing girls with outdoor, backpacking, and leadership skills since 1936.

Vail Resorts gives back to the communities where their resorts are located through grants and employee volunteering. The EpicPromise embodies its foundational value – Do Good. They also support the resilience of the environment and global climate through Commitment to Zero.