Replying to Vail/Epic Employee Pass Question

So this winter I'm going to visit Japan for the first time and I'm hyped. Since I'm a Vail employee I thought I would be good to access to new resorts in Japan. However this is not the case, you need to purchase the Epic Local at least to access these resorts. Does anyone know if there is some sort of partial upgrade Vail can do for you to be able to access restricted foreign resorts without buying a whole other pass? I will be calling them after work today but figured I'd ask here first.

Thanks