My family is headed to Squaw Valley for a ski vacation in March, and I've been looking for discounted lift ticket options.  I recently discovered the following website, which describes discounted lift ticket deals at numerous ski areas in California, Colorado, Michigan, and Oregon.  To qualify for the discount, it just requires purchasing 10 gallons of Shell fuel, and requesting a voucher.

There are some date restrictions, depending on the ski area.  This deal offers 2 for 1 lift tickets. Please check out the link below for all the details:

http://www.skifreedeals.com/ski-resorts-all.html

Some of the resorts participating in this promotion include the following:

- Alpine Meadows

- Kirkwood

- Squaw Valley

- Copper Mountain

- Loveland

- Crested Butte

- Winter Park

- Hoodoo

- Mt. Hood Meadows

- Timberline

I live in Bend, Oregon - a town of about 80,000 people in the center of Oregon.  I don't know exactly what the criteria is for deal websites, but Bend is currently not a city on most of the deal sites.

Bend does have Zing Dealz (http://www.zingdealz.com/) and Do Local Deals (http://dolocaldeals.com/) but until now, it has not attracted any of the larger, more well-known deal sites (Groupon, etc.).

That, however, is changing.  Living Social has hired a local Bendite to establish Bend as a city in its deal choices.  I have heard the launch will be happening soon and will keep you posted!