Colorado lift ticket deals

If you go: Arapahoe Basin is offering $80 lift tickets during its Dec. 4–6 birthday weekend and every Wednesday this ski season — a savings of at least $50.

• On early- and late-season Wednesdays, the price drops to $50.
• The first skier or rider to log 80 days on the mountain will be entered to win 80 prizes, including a Mike Wiegele heli-skiing trip.

Aspen Snowmass has lift tickets and rentals for $80 the weekend of Dec. 12–13 when it celebrates the annual Wintersköl festival, a toast to the start of the season. That's 62% off the normal price.

• Yes, but: The $3.75 passes — the original cost back in 1946 — for Dec. 14 are already sold out.