Vail employees spend day volunteering around Tahoe
On Sept. 19, more than 400 employees from Heavenly Mountain Resort, Northstar and Kirkwood Mountain Resort gathered to breathe new life into the North and South Lake Tahoe Boys & Girls Club locations, as well as help with various trail maintenance projects on Sawtooth Trail and throughout the Martis Valley in partnership with the Truckee Trails Foundation.
These volunteers represent a portion of the 2,000 Vail Resorts employees who gave back to their communities as part of Vail Resorts’ annual EpicPromise Day.
Established in 2010, EpicPromise Day brings together employees, their friends and families, to support a local community need. Since its founding, the annual EpicPromise Day has allowed more than 6,700 volunteers to give nearly 26,000 hours of time to local projects.
Volunteers updated classrooms and buildings at the Boys & Girls Clubs of North and South Lake Tahoe by deep cleaning, applying 29 gallons of fresh paint to the locations, installing and refurbishing cubbies, disposing 8 tons of debris, crafting a sandbox and assisting in landscaping that created a beautiful memorial garden where students can read and study outdoors.
Volunteers also were able to trim overgrowth and remove debris and loose rocks from the Sawtooth Trail and repair a boardwalk running through Martis Valley, aiding in trail maintenance as well as erosion and water quality efforts.
Epic projects through the years, Vail goes big.
I’m curious…. “The EPIC Day promise has ALLOWED more than 67000 volunteers to give nearly 26,000 hours of time…” What do they mean they “allowoed” these volunteers to give their time? They were volunteers…
Irish- Materials… Coordination of the project itself? They used the word allow… I’m going to use cap lock and cry about it. Try posting something positive for a change.
Irish, The Epic Promise program ALLOWS Vail employees to participate in community volunteer activities as part of their employment at Vail.
So the Vail employees are getting paid by Vail while they’re doing the work in the community. In my opinion, that’s a pretty big commitment to the community from Vail.