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• Deeply Satisfying—A Photo Essay by Lee Cohen

  01-04-2023 00:58 via powder.com
  
  A Season for the Ages in Little Cottonwood CanyonStory and Photos by Lee Cohen  Vintage vibes. Alta ticket office behind a mosaic of buried cars. Marquee: Thorn Merrill and Tyler Peterson.Photo: Lee CohenThe winter of 2022–23 has been one of epic proportions … eight hundred inches of snow before the end of March, a new all-time season total record. From the ridiculous stretch of blower pow in December (après talk in the bar amongst the pathetically spoiled loca
  
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• Recapping Mikaela Shiffrin's Historic Season

  01-04-2023 00:52 via powder.com
  
  There's been a lot of G.O.A.T. talk in the alpine ski racing community recently. No, not the farm animal—the greatest of all time. The subject of these discussions is American ski racer Mikaela Shiffrin, who solidified her position in ski racing's history books this season. This video from F.I.S. Alpine recaps her record-breaking winter.For those of us with too short of an attention span to watch a minute-long YouTube video (really telling on myself here), these are Shiffrin's noteworthy s
  
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• Record Snow Sits Idle As Ski Resort Access Road Is Collapsing

  01-04-2023 00:29 via powder.com
  
  If there's one question that could sum up this ski season in North America, it would be this: is there such a thing as too much snow? For Mt. Waterman Ski Lifts (yes, that's the resort's name) owner Rick Metcalf, the answer is a resounding yes. Watch the clip below to learn about the challenges this little Californian ski resort has faced this season amidst record-breaking snowfall.While the road collapsing is noteworthy, the truly interesting part of this story is Mt. Waterman itself. The mom-a
  
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