SAM Magazine-Bolton Valley, Vt., Aug. 26, 2008-Vermont resorts are offering a variety of new discounted ticket deals for 2008-09. Among the highlights:

Ascutney Mountain Resort's Special Early Bird Season Pass Program offers discounts when purchases are made by Sept. 30. The unlimited pass is $150 off ($579 for juniors/seniors and $689 for adults). The Ascutney Advantage Pass, valid Sunday through Friday with additional holiday blackout dates, runs $229 for juniors/seniors and $269 for adults, savings of $120 and $130 respectively. And for college students, the "Ultra" College Season Pass costs $179.

Bolton Valley prices include a family pass (four people) for $1,399. Individual season passes are priced as low as $499 for adults and $299 for youth and seniors. Families are also a focus at Cochran's Ski Area, where the family pass-any size, all season-costs just $330 when bought before Dec. 1.

Bromley pass buyers get a $100 discount on season passes purchased by Oct. 15. The area also offers two all-season specials: Family Fridays, when kids' tickets are just $12 for each paying adult (limit of three kids per adult), and Lift & Lunch Tuesdays, when an all-day lift ticket and lunch in the tavern costs just $39.

At Mad River Glen, specials take the normally low $39 daily tariff even lower. On Roll Back the Clock Day, skiers pay the original 1948 lift price of $3.50; on St. Patrick's Day, those who wear green pay $17; and on Town Meeting Day, school kids ski free.

Magic Mountain specials include Car Pool Wednesdays (non-holiday weeks only), when the entire carload (four or more per car) pays $80, as well as Ski and Ride with Friends and Family, a midweek $25-per ticket deal for groups of at least three friends/family.

Smugglers' Notch passes and the Bash Badge include 20 to 50 percent discounts for equipment rentals, lessons, cross-country trail fees, nursery services, children's ski and snowboard camps and other benefits.

Stratton Mountain's Sunday Pass costs $229 for a season of Sunday skiing ($13 a day). Its Value Pass ($579) has 19 blackout dates, but affords direct to lift convenience, resort charging and other benefits. The Standard Pass costs $979 with no blackouts, and offers benefits at other Intrawest resorts, special rates on rentals, and more.

Value cards: Mount Snow's FANfare card ($99) offers 50 percent off midweek non-holiday lift tickets, 25 percent off weekend non-holiday tickets, and 10 percent off holiday tickets. Okemo's flex card ($99) provides savings of 50 percent on non-holiday weekday single-day lift tickets, as well as for day tickets in November and after March 15, plus 25 percent discounts on weekend and holiday day rates. \

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