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• Skier Stomps Show Stopping "Titanic Backflip" During Canadian Freeride Competition

  20-02-2024 23:42 via powder.com
  
  This past week, the Freeride World Tour came to Kicking Horse Mountain Resort, British Columbia, for the Kicking Horse Golden BC Pro. Predictably, the event delivered more than one show stopping moment, like this "titanic" backflip from the Frenchman Oscar Mandin.Coincidentally, I was on-scene to catch Mandin's impressive flip. Here's a little "inside baseball" on the venue that day: despite how the snow looked on the live stream, it wasn't actually that great.Before the competition, a refreeze
  
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• Colorado Avalanche Information Center Reviews Recent Avalanche Fatality

  20-02-2024 22:59 via powder.com
  
  Earlier this month, Blister Review announced the passing of a beloved member of its team—Eric Freson—in a Colorado backcountry avalanche.Seven days after the incident, the Colorado Avalanche Information Center shared a video that detailed the events surrounding Freson's passing.The avalanche occurred in The Playground, a backcountry zone in Colorado's Anthracite Range, on February 11th. Freson was part of a four-person crew of experienced backcountry skiers. Before the final avalanch
  
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• 'Open Late Fridays' Returning To Lake Tahoe's Highest Ski Area

  20-02-2024 21:23 via powder.com
  
  Sound the alarms Lake Tahoe and Reno area skiers, Mt. Rose's 'Open Late Fridays' are officially back.Starting this Friday, February 23rd, Mt. Rose will spin select chairlifts until 6PM to give skiers and riders extra time on the mountain. More details below.View this post on InstagramA post shared by Mt. Rose-Ski Tahoe (@mtroseskitahoe)
  Mt. Rose will run the Lakeview Express, Wizard, and Magic chairlifts until 6PM on Fridays throughout the remainder of the season. Lift tickets are just $69
  
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• Jackson Skier Owen Leeper On Launching Off 100+ Foot Cliffs

  20-02-2024 20:17 via powder.com
  
  You couldn't think of a more fitting name for a man who makes his living leaping off things on skis.Owen Leeper—get it? Leeper. Leaper.—is a Jackson Hole Mountain Resort, Wyoming, local who, when the snow gets deep, finds the largest cliff possible and points it.Some of his latest antics took place near the resort boundaries of JHMR.View this post on InstagramA post shared by Owen Leeper (@o_leeps)
  At a certain point, ski cliff jumping becomes another sport entirely, focused less on
  
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• Jackson Hole Eclipses 100 Inches Of Snow In The Month Of February

  20-02-2024 20:02 via powder.com
  
  It's going down at Jackson Hole Mountain Resort, Wyoming.Yesterday, the ski resort reported receiving over 100 inches of snow this month.And you know what that means? Untapped turns down Casper Bowl.We’ve received ~100” of ❄️ since Feb. 1 🤯 @sonofvbeach takes a heavenly run down an untracked Casper bowl after it snowed four feet last week 🙌 double-tap if you’d trade places with him.🎥: @gopro HERO12 Black + Max Lens Mod 2.0#jacksonhole #gopr
  
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• Snow Ridge: Back at Full Strength

  20-02-2024 20:00 via nyskiblog.com
  
  Snow Ridge has gotten a lot of attention from us this year, for good reason. Or maybe more accurately, for a bad reason. On August 7 of last year, the hill was ripped by an EF-3 tornado. Tornados are bad, and when they come to ski areas, late in the off-season, they are even worse. Snow Ridge scrambled to get ready for winter. We covered the event, and the even more astounding recovery. Evidence of the storm is still obvious » Read More »
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• Utah Ski Area Surpasses 400 Inches Of Snow On The Season

  20-02-2024 19:38 via powder.com
  
  I'm not jealous—you are.Over the weekend, Alta Ski Area, Utah, announced that it surpassed 400 inches of snowfall this season.View this post on InstagramA post shared by Alta Ski Area (@altaskiarea)
  Alta's 42-year average seasonal snowfall total was 538 inches as of last winter. With just over 100 inches to go, the resort should at least hit that mark this ski season—catastrophically warm weather events notwithstanding.Obviously, this winter at Alta isn't comparable to the last. With
  
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• Minnesota's Wild Mountain To Fight "Tough Winters" With Improved Snowmaking

  20-02-2024 19:11 via powder.com
  
  Wild Mountain, Minnesota, is doubling down in the "battle against tough winters."Over the weekend, the resort announced a renewed investment in its snowmaking operations.The resort plans to expand the water pumping capacity at its pond, increasing snowmaking by 33% when temperatures fall into the teens. The uptick in capacity will facilitate an additional 50 snowguns.Currently, the resort hits its snowmaking capacity while blowing snow on the Main Stage, Back Stage, Competition, Expressway runs,
  
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• Storm Hits Mammoth Mountain, Brings Over 9 New Inches Of Snow

  20-02-2024 18:17 via powder.com
  
  Mammoth Mountain, CA, with the highest resort summit in California, is seeing 9-11 inches of new snow, with 19 inches over the last two days. Last night, Mammoth officials posted a video of the flurries coming down, saying, "It has begun... Dump Alert 10-12” of new snow overnight, with heavy snowfall to continue throughout the day today." View this post on InstagramA post shared by Mammoth Mountain (@mammothmountain)
  "It’s going to be a classic Mammoth storm day with HEAVY
  
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• Lindsey Vonn Skis The Hardest Downhill Course At Night

  20-02-2024 18:00 via powder.com
  
  Former World Cup alpine racer and Olympic medalist Lindsey Vonn has recently been spotted skiing with superstar Ashley Graham, inventing silly games on the slopes with snowboarder Shaun White, and, like here, still enjoying a solo run through a race course. This time, at night. Redbull Canada posted the footage of Vonn speeding through the Streif (in Austria) in the dark, joking that "if you thought doing this in daylight was tough..."View this post on InstagramA post shared by Red Bul
  
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• The Long Read: A New Vision for Telemark

  20-02-2024 17:00 via powder.com
  
  Powder aims to feature only the best products and services.If you buy something via one of our links, we may earn a commission.“Honestly, what did you think of the film?” he asked. Even through the phone his earnestness felt tangible to the touch. And, in the moment, it surprised me.After an hour and a half of enthusiastically answering interview questions, pivoting on different tangents, and ruminating on what it means to be a modern free-heel skier, CJ Coccia - founder and chief fi
  
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• Arizona Resort Sees Over 3 Feet In Last Week

  20-02-2024 16:00 via powder.com
  
  Mt. Lemmon Ski Valley is the southernmost ski area in the entire country, located just 40 miles from Tucson, Arizona.Like many resorts in the United States at the moment, Mt. Lemmon has seen some serious snow. Their 10 day snow total is "between 3 and 5 feet of snow" on Mt. Lemmon.View this post on InstagramA post shared by Mt Lemmon Hotel (@mtlemmonhotel)
  The above video was posted by Mt. Lemmon Hotel, advertised as "Tucson's cool escape to beat the heat or play in the snow." Oh
  
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• Wild Wolf Trots Past Unsuspecting Skier

  20-02-2024 15:30 via powder.com
  
  The dangers that come to mind when skiing at the resort are primarily (and in no particular order) chairlifts, other skiers, avalanches if you ski out west, and maybe injuries from terrain, depending on where you ski. But wolves? Not usually on the menu. Except, of course, if you're this unfortunate skier near the Flaine ski station in the Haute-Savoie department.The video, posted by Caron Alain on Facebook on February 16th, is accompanied by a caption which translates in English (roug
  
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• Wild Wolf Jots Past Unsuspecting Skier

  20-02-2024 15:30 via powder.com
  
  The dangers that come to mind when skiing at the resort are primarily (and in no particular order) chairlifts, other skiers, avalanches if you ski out west, and maybe injuries from terrain, depending on where you ski. But wolves? Not usually on the menu. Except, of course, if you're this unfortunate skier near the Flaine ski station in the Haute-Savoie department.The video, posted by Caron Alain on Facebook on February 16th, is accompanied by a caption which translates in English (roug
  
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• Palisades Tahoe Passes 200 Inches On The Season

  20-02-2024 15:15 via powder.com
  
  Palisades Tahoe, CA, is in the midst of a Winter Storm Warning, Avalanche Warning, High Winds Warning, and Flood Warning. But the bright side? All the new snow. Officials at the resort write that the "upper mountain received 6" of new snow overnight! Our lower elevations saw a mix of rain and then snow, for a wet 2" of snow down at the Palisades Base." "Our season snow total is at 209", and we'll likely pick up another foot or so before the end of this storm!"Monday, the upper mountain
  
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• Mt. Rose Introduces New Avalanche Rescue Dog

  20-02-2024 15:00 via powder.com
  
  There's nothing good about avalanches, but there does exist a silver lining of the rescue efforts that accompany avalanches: the patrol dogs. At Mt. Rose in Nevada, there's a new member of the rescue team. A post to Instagram from officials at Mt. Rose announced, "Meet the newest member of the Mt. Rose Ski Patrol! Larry is a six month old golden from NORCAL Golden Retriever Rescue."View this post on InstagramA post shared by Mt. Rose-Ski Tahoe (@mtroseskitahoe)
  Patrol at Mt. Rose shared the
  
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• An eco-friendly stay at ‘the quietest ski village in Austria’

  20-02-2024 08:00
  
  In the hamlet of Fontanella in the Grosses Walsertal valley, ‘leave-no-trace’ pop-up chalets offer an alternative for skiers looking for a back-to-nature stay in the AlpsOn a steeply pitched road in Grosses Walsertal valley, it was snowing – heavily – as if the heavens had shattered. I was two hours west of Innsbruck, deep in the Alps in midwinter, but the view was free from the rows of snow-laden hotels, après-ski bars and resort chalets that I was used to seeing
  
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