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• Oregon Ski Area Opens 22 Foot Halfpipe

  21-02-2024 23:23 via powder.com
  
  Mt. Bachelor, Oregon's 22-foot halfpipe is open and ready for action, according to a post shared by the resort on Instagram earlier today.View this post on InstagramA post shared by Mt. Bachelor (@mtbachelor)
  The halfpipe, which Mt. Bachelor calls "competition quality," is typically open February through May, so the resort is right on schedule. Last season, the pipe opened on February 16th.The pipe will host two United States of America Snowboard and Freeski Association (USASA) events this weeke
  
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• The North Face Celebrates 40 Years With Freeskiing Icon Scot Schmidt

  21-02-2024 21:55 via powder.com
  
  Scot Schmidt, the legendary freeskier who shaped the future of the sport, is the longest sponsored action sports athlete in history.At 40 years skiing and designing Steep Tech with The North Face, Schmidt is one of the most influential skiers to date. Check out the tribute video below. Keep scrolling for a short testimonial from Ingrid Backstrom.Ask any current big mountain professional skier who belongs on a fictitious Mt. Rushmore of the discipline, and at least one person's face sho
  
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• Tahoe Continues To See Heavy Snow

  21-02-2024 20:43 via powder.com
  
  Tahoe has seen lots of snow over the past week. Most recently, Tahoe's biggest resort, Palisades Tahoe, saw "another 9” in the last 24 hours!"With most of the upper mountain closed on Monday, and snow coming down on Tuesday, with heavy snow falling overnight, the resort saw yet another powder day today. Can you say Febu-buried? View this post on InstagramA post shared by Palisades Tahoe (@palisadestahoe)
  The abundance of snow is causing extra effort from Mountain Ops. Officials at Pal
  
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• Dew Tour Copper Mountain Event Schedule Released

  21-02-2024 20:25 via powder.com
  
  Colorado's Copper Mountain will once again see the Dew Tour this March. A post from Dew Tour on Instagram announced that "the best skiers in superpipe meet at Copper Mountain this March 8-10, 2024 for this year’s chance at Dew Tour glory."View this post on InstagramA post shared by Dew Tour (@dewtour)
  Dew Tour is a contest series and content platform that brings together the world’s best skateboarders, snowboarders, skiers, artists, brands, and fans to celebrate creativity and s
  
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• Washington Ski Area Selling Lifetime Season Pass For $6k

  21-02-2024 20:19 via powder.com
  
  Yesterday, Loup Loup Ski Bowl, a small ski area in Washington, announced that it has started offering lifetime season passes for $6,000.In a Facebook post, Loup Loup suggested that the decision to offer lifetime season passes stemmed from the challenging season it and several other resorts throughout Washington have endured."It's no secret to anyone in the Ski and Snowboard community that this winter has been hard on ski areas across the country on a historic level," Loup Loup wrote. "Unfortunat
  
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• New Motor En Route To Shuttered Colorado Chairlift

  21-02-2024 19:58 via powder.com
  
  Officials at Steamboat, CO, have a positive announcement following the breakdown of their chairlift, the Pony Express. Yesterday, a Facebook post from the resort read, "Happy to share that a motor is enroute. Our teams disassembled and removed the 8,000lb. existing Pony Express motor over the weekend and transported it down to our Slope Maintenance facility yesterday on a vehicle trailer retrofitted with skis that was assembled in-house.""The new motor should be here in the next few days. O
  
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• Fighter Jet Buzzes Popular Colorado Ski Area

  21-02-2024 19:58 via powder.com
  
  Arapahoe Basin Ski Area, Colorado, isn't just home to skiers and snowboarders. Fighter jets, too, make the occasional appearance.In a Reddit post shared yesterday, an A-Basin visitor captured a fighter jet as it blasted over the resort's piste.View the original article to see embedded media.According to Shayna Silverman, A-Basin's communications manager, fighter jet cameos are a regular occurrence at the resort. "Jets are pretty common to spot here at A-Basin! There's a ton of military base
  
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• Canadian Ski Resort Joins 'The Mountain Collective' Pass

  21-02-2024 19:41 via powder.com
  
  Bromont Montagne in Canada has a big announcement. It came, however, from Mountain Collective, a multi-resort ski pass with ski areas all around the world. Officials announced, "We have a secret and we just can't keep it any longer... please join us in welcoming @bromont_montagne to the Collective Pass 💥"View this post on InstagramA post shared by Mountain Collective (@collectivepass)
  "Just in time for 24/25 passes to go on sale real soon and we're already planning our trip out ther
  
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• Redditor Proposes New Ski Resort For The Ozark Mountains

  21-02-2024 19:19 via powder.com
  
  Northwest Arkansas isn't an area known for its skiing and snowboarding offerings, probably for good reason. Vacant of the heavy snowfall and large peaks present across the west, the region doesn't offer the usual trappings of a ski resort.However, that didn't stop one determined Redditor—u/HBTD-WPS—from constructing his own imagined ski resort in the Ozarks, complete with a trail network.View the original article to see embedded media.History suggests that this Redditor's hopes likel
  
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• How To Watch The Palisades Tahoe Cup

  21-02-2024 18:34 via powder.com
  
  The U.S. Ski Team shared their excitement at this weekend's event, writing "ALPINE IS BACK ON HOME SNOW‼️ 🙌 Stifel Palisades Tahoe Cup here we come 🤠"The Stifel Palisades Tahoe cup runs from Friday, February 23rd to Sunday, February 25th, and has a stacked lineup of events, including Men's Flying Hill, Women's Super G, Woman's Normal Hill Ski Jump, Men's GS, and Men's Slalom. View this post on InstagramA post shared by Stifel U.S. Ski Team (@usskiteam)
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• Nation's Largest Ski Resort Slashing Bike Park From This Summer's Operations

  21-02-2024 18:23 via powder.com
  
  Powder Mountain, Utah, announced yesterday that lift-accessed mountain biking will not be available over the summer due to the planned construction of several new chairlifts.View this post on InstagramA post shared by Powder Mountain (@powdermountain)
  The resort intends to preserve cross-country mountain biking access this summer, with temporary closures "from time-to-time," wrote a representative of Powder Mountain in email correspondence with POWDER yesterday, "especially where the trails cros
  
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• Reggae Fest Returns To Sugarloaf Mountain

  21-02-2024 17:28 via powder.com
  
  How is it already that time of year? It feels like winter is flying by as Reggae Fest is confirmed for yet another season at Sugarloaf, ME. A post from officials at the Loaf wrote that the 26th annual "Reggae Fest lineup is confirmed and the good vibes are guaranteed. It's the biggest spring party in ski country and this year's artists are not to be missed."View this post on InstagramA post shared by Sugarloaf (@sugarloafmountain)
  The festival runs from April 11th to April 14th, and it's 4
  
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• Professional Skier Amie Engerbretson Is A Hypocrite

  21-02-2024 16:07 via powder.com
  
  The word "hypocrite" carries more weight than ever. In a time where every person has a valued voice and a platform to express it, a hypocrite is seen as a distrustful member of our society. Rather than hide from self-admitted flaws when it comes to climate change activism, professional skier Amie Engerbretson is owning up to her own hypocrisy as a way to inspire others to take action in their local communities.Her new film, aptly named 'The Hypocrite', is available
  
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• Keystone Resort, CO Announces First Ever Queer Ski Weekend

  21-02-2024 15:15 via powder.com
  
  We're seeing progression in the ski industry: women directing ski movies, people of all backgrounds and identities with voices in outdoor media, and the LGBTQ+ community seeing more and more space carved out on the hill in a historically white, heteronormative space. Specifically, skiers can "get ready to party down Dercum at Keystone’s Queer Ski Weekend March 1-2!"View this post on InstagramA post shared by Keystone Resort (@keystone_resort)
  This is not the first event of its ki
  
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• Vermont Resort Sees Almost 3 Feet Of Snow Over The Last Week

  21-02-2024 15:00 via powder.com
  
  At Jay Peak, VT, "the powder train keeps chugging away... 3-5" overnight freshened everything up yet again, bringing us up to 34" in the past week." Jay Peak has also seen 9 days in a row of snowfall. Epic, not just for Vermont, but for anywhere. The powder train keeps chugging away...3-5" overnight freshened everything up yet again, bringing us up to 34" in the past week. We are nearly 100% open with plenty of powder for Presidents' Week.
  📸 @timfaterTaken this morning 2/19/24
  
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• Still Closed Washington Ski Area Provides Operations Update

  21-02-2024 14:00 via powder.com
  
  Hurricane Ridge, a ski area located on Washington's Olympic Peninsula, has had a challenging ski season, left unable to open due to warm weather and a lack of snow.Earlier this week, the resort shared an update, announcing that it would need one or two feet of snow to open.View this post on InstagramA post shared by Hurricane Ridge (@hurricaneridge)
  Hurricane Ridge is currently banking on a "miracle March," citing forecasts from Pacific Northwest meteorologist Micheal Snyder, who, in a recent vi
  
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• New Jersey Ski Resort To Improve One Of Nation's Most Powerful Snowmaking Systems With $5 Million Investment

  21-02-2024 13:00 via powder.com
  
  Yesterday, Mountain Creek, New Jersey, announced the planned installation of a new $5 million automated system on Vernon Peak, improving what the resort calls "one of the largest and most powerful snowmaking systems in the country."View this post on InstagramA post shared by Mountain Creek (@mountaincreek)
  While Mountain Creek already has 100% of its terrain covered by snowguns, the automated snowmaking system will allow "the resort to get open earlier, to expand terrain faster than ever before,
  
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