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• Cho Oyu Speed Ascent Update: First Day In Tibet

  21-09-2023 23:11 via powder.com
  
  This article is part of an ongoing series covering Benedikt Boehm and Prakash Sherpa's planned speed ascent of Cho Oyu, Tibet -- the 6th highest mountain in the world. For background information, click here.Benedikt Boehm and Prakash Sherpa have secured travel visas and entered Tibet, a nation controlled by China as an autonomous zone. They will travel to Cho Oyu in the coming weeks and begin preparations for the planned speed ascent.Earlier today, Boehm described the team's first day in Tibet
  
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• Ski Resort Called "Tone Deaf" For Social Post Advertising Online Lift Ticket Discounts

  21-09-2023 20:45 via powder.com
  
  The ski industry has undergone a major change over the last two decades in regards to how lift tickets are purchased. Resorts prefer to sell season passes and mega-passes (Ikon, Epic, etc.), or sell daily lift tickets online and in advance. This helps to establish revenue, and plan for daily operations based on how many tickets have been sold. A drawback is that daily walk-up lift ticket prices are inflated. Sugarbush Resort, VT is catching some backlash for a recent Instagram post enc
  
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• Washington Ski Resort Catches First Flakes Of Winter

  21-09-2023 19:20 via powder.com
  
  Yesterday, September 20th, Crystal Mountain, Washington, shared exciting news: they'd received the season's first snowfall.Check out photos and video from the wintry tease below.View this post on InstagramA post shared by Crystal Mountain (@crystalmountain) View this post on InstagramA post shared by Crystal Mountain (@crystalmountain)
  Sadly, as of today, September 21st, the snow's gone the way of the Dodo. Still, at this point in late summer/early fall, we should take what we can get. While it'
  
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• Australia's Largest Ski Resort Announces Closing Day

  21-09-2023 18:49 via powder.com
  
  The time has come: earlier today, September 21st, Perisher, Australia's largest ski resort, announced it would close on September 25th.The announcement follows an Australian ski season replete with warm temperatures and low precipitation. From Perisher's caption: "The time has come to say goodbye to the 2023 snow season at Perisher with our last day of operations on Monday 25 September. We’re very proud of the work our team has done to keep as much terrain open for as long as possible, how
  
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• Cody Townsend Pays Tribute To Robb Gaffney

  21-09-2023 17:36 via powder.com
  
  Professional skier Cody Townsend paid tribute on Instagram yesterday, September 20th, to skiing legend Robb Gaffney.Townsend's tribute is one among many -- since Robb's brother Scott announced that Robb's cancer prognosis had taken a turn for the worse, support, love, and reverence for Robb have emerged from every corner of the skiing community.View this post on InstagramA post shared by Cody Townsend (@codytownsend)
  Townsend takes it away. "By now, most of you that follow skiing know that a pil
  
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• Washington Ski Area Welcomes First Snowfall: "Every Season Starts With A Flake"

  21-09-2023 17:30 via powder.com
  
  Mission Ridge Ski & Board Resort, located near Wenatchee, Washington, just joined the unofficial party of ski resorts celebrating their first snowfall of the season.The resort announced that they received their first official snowfall of the season on Wednesday, September 20th, 2023.Mission Ridge's first storm didn't deliver a powder day, per se, but enough flakes fell to give a few sources a light coating of white. Check out the pictures below:From the caption:"Whether you call it a dusting
  
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• Washing Ski Area Welcomes First Snowfall: "Every Season Starts With A Flake"

  21-09-2023 17:30 via powder.com
  
  Mission Ridge Ski & Board Resort, located near Wenatchee, Washington, just joined the unofficial party of ski resorts celebrating their first snowfall of the season.The resort announced that they received their first official snowfall of the season on Wednesday, September 20th, 2023.Mission Ridge's first storm didn't deliver a powder day, per se, but enough flakes fell to give a few sources a light coating of white. Check out the pictures below:From the caption:"Whether you call it a dusting
  
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• Continent's Only Indoor Ski Resort Re-Opening Mogul Run

  21-09-2023 17:16 via powder.com
  
  Sometimes, skiing shows up in the most unlikely places.East Rutherford, New Jersey, has a megamall home to an enormous fridge. Inside that fridge, there's a ski resort called Big SNOW American Dream, complete with real snow, a chairlift (!), grooming machines, and now, moguls.On September 19th, Big Snow announced that "the moguls are back this weekend, Friday-Sunday. Make plans to get your bump training in before the seasons start!"Here's the Big SNOW team making the magic happen. Big SNOW is No
  
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• El Niño Is Poised To Deliver 'Above Average' Snowfall For California

  21-09-2023 14:51 via powder.com
  
  YouTube channel Direct Weather is one of the best sources for long-term weather forecasts on the internet. His videos are a useful resource to make plans for the upcoming ski season.Meteorologists are convinced that a 'strong' El Niño will dominate our weather patterns through at least the end of March.Direct Weather uses maps in the video below to visualize how much snow each region expects on an annual basis, and what we should expect this winter based on the likelihood of a strong El N
  
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• Go Behind The Scenes Of One The Best Ski Movies Ever Made

  21-09-2023 14:30 via powder.com
  
  Ski movies are highlight reels. That much is indisputable.Still, even if that aspect of ski movies is obvious, it can be hard to conceptualize, leaving viewers with the lingering sensation that the pros are always at the top of their game.Luckily, we have production crews like Magma, who just released a behind-the-scenes segment of their instant-classic movie from two years ago, Magma II. This video, which focuses on one of Magma II's skiers, Alex Hall, provides much-needed context into the
  
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• Chilean Ski Resort Recounts "Snowiest September We've Seen In Years"

  21-09-2023 14:11 via powder.com
  
  Yesterday, September 19th, Ski Portillo, Chile, shared an Instagram post documenting the "snowiest September we've seen in years."As you might expect, lots of snow translates to one thing and one thing only: powder skiing.Here's the recap featuring members of the Blizzard Tecnica team.View this post on InstagramA post shared by Ski Portillo (@skiportillo)
  Ski Portillo, among other South American resorts, enjoyed an incredible turn of fortunes earlier this winter (that's this past summer for us t
  
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