Europe's Biggt Gay Ski Week | EGSW | 16-23 March 2024

Contents:

• GAY SKI WEEK IS BACK AT VAIL
• VAIL GAY SKI WEEK GAS MOMENTUM
• VAIL STEPS UP S GAY SKI WEEK
• VAIL RORTS MOUNTAS GEARG UP FOR GAY SKI WEEKS
• VAIL RORTS MOUNTAS ALREADY GEARG UP FOR GAY SKI WEEKS
• VAILGAY SKIWEEK
• GAY SKI WEEK VAIL BRGS CROWDS
• TELLURI GAY SKI WEEK

GAY SKI WEEK IS BACK AT VAIL

​​Aspen Gay Ski Week. Aspen, Colorado, January 15-22Home to the world’s first and longt nng gay ski week, AGSW celebrat s 46th year this January. Photo by Ala Wong on UnsplashStowe, Vermont, January 18-22Dubbed “the bt gay ski week the east, ” Stowe’s annual wter Pri ftival draws hundreds of LGBTQ+ skiers and rirs of every level for five days of explorg the rort’s 116 trails.

VAIL GAY SKI WEEK GAS MOMENTUM

​Utah Gay Ski Week. This year, Utah Gay Ski Week featur guid skig and ridg at Park Cy and nearby Deer Valley as well as themed stume aprés-ski meet-ups, dners, and dance parti.

VAIL STEPS UP S GAY SKI WEEK

​Telluri Gay Ski Week.

For 2023, SBG Productns (producers of the ski town’s blu and jazz ftivals) tak over Telluri Gay Ski Week. Some might say ASGW (Aspen Gay Ski Week) was and is the first form of LGBTQ+ Pri Aspen.

Fd out why Condé Naste lls “The alpha and the omega of gay ski weeks. Vail's Gay Ski Week is back! Acrdg to the Associated Prs, the days-long celebratn of everythg gay and ski-y was nceled last year due to the enomic downturn.

VAIL RORTS MOUNTAS GEARG UP FOR GAY SKI WEEKS

In searchg the ter for other gay ski weeks -- Aspen, Telluri and Whistler host them, too -- we me across a webse for the (fict, we thk) Brokeback Mounta Ski Area, where the trails have nam like Ramrod and Glory Hole and the lifts are lled the Uran Double and the Hardwood Poma. VAIL, Colorado – Wh 500 to 1, 000 people expected town for Vail’s Gay Ski Week, the event’s founr is hopg Vail will embrace wh open arms for many years to e.

Tommy Hoffman, owner of Rocky Mounta Vatn Rentals, says he is always thkg of ways for his pany to support three specific areas of the muny – public and private schools, the arts, and the gay and lbian muny. He says he created Vail Gay Ski Week, which tak place om set for Jan. As someone volved the gay muny himself, Hoffman wanted to show his support for and do somethg for the muny durg tough enomic tim.

He said the gay and lbian muny typilly has more expendable e than heterosexual fai, therefore ’s a great market to tap to, Hoffman said. Telluri and Aspen are ski towns that have hosted succsful gay ski weeks for years, but Vail’s Gay Ski Week is tryg to draw the Front Range gay and lbian muni. Hoffman has gone so far as to m the funds raised the Vail Gay Ski Week silent ctn to help build a new center for the Denver-based Gay, Lbian, Bisexual and Transgenr Communy Center of Colorado.

VAIL RORTS MOUNTAS ALREADY GEARG UP FOR GAY SKI WEEKS

Heather Draper, spokwoman for anizatn, said the Vail Gay Ski Week page on the group’s Web se has gotten more than 450 views the last month and ’s one of the most popular pag on the se, she said.

Draper said the gay and lbian muny around Denver is fely talkg about the event. “Generally, there’s a sense that we’re glad there’s another gay ski week optn out there for our muny, ” Draper said. Denver’s Gay Pri Para, which happens June, draws about 275, 000 people – one of the largt gay pri paras the untry.

“Wh that huge of a (gay and lbian muny), there’s obvly a huge opportuny, ” Hoffman said.

VAILGAY SKIWEEK

“My plan is to build (Vail Gay Ski Week) up to 3, 000 to 5, 000 people wh 3-5 years.

Rocky Mounta Vatn Rentals, which is handlg all the bookg for the event, has tapped to the gay and lbian scene Denver. The pany’s staff has been workg wh the popular gay and lbian bars Denver to promote the event, as well as promotg through and s sponsors.

Telluri and Aspen draw a lot of out-of-state guts durg their gay ski weeks, Hoffman said, largely bee those markets are geared more toward statn visors.

GAY SKI WEEK VAIL BRGS CROWDS

The number of Front Rangers planng to attend Vail Gay Ski Week is unknown – Hoffman said so many of them uld be Epic Pass holrs or send-home owners, so hotel bookgs don’t necsarily reflect how many people are headg to town. VAIL, Colorado – Vail’s Gay Ski Week, Jan.

27-31, the week after Aspen hosts s 33rd annual Gay Ski Week.

TELLURI GAY SKI WEEK

Though Vail has taken a uple of stabs at a gay ski week – was skipped durg last season’s enomic downturn – anizers are steppg up a big way this season wh hop of lurg 500 to 1, 000 atten, acrdg to Tommy Hoffman, founr of the Vail event and owner of Rocky Mounta Vatn Rentals Vail. Aspen’s Gay Ski Week, hosted by the Roarg Fork Gay and Lbian Communy Fund, will take place Jan.

The lol group is glad to hear Vail is creatg more visibily for the Eagle County gay and lbian muny, he said. Eighty percent of Aspen’s Gay Ski Week atten e om out of state, Helburn timated. Telluri’s seventh annual Gay Ski Week is schled Feb.

The Dallas pany that markets Telluri’s Gay Ski Week has been hired to promote the Vail event, he said. For the party scene, Hoffman envisns “brgg the bt of the [gay] bar scene om Denver to Vail.