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• Closed Michigan Ski Resort Eyes Reopening As Spring Storm Arrives

  19-03-2024 22:20 via powder.com
  
  Mount Bohemia Ski Resort, Michigan, set an unfortunate record this month on March 3rd, closing earlier than ever due to low snowfall.However, hope remained, with Lonnie Glieberman—the resort's owner—noting on Instagram that a reopening could happen if enough snow arrived.Thanks to an incoming storm, those hopes might come to fruition later this month.View this post on InstagramA post shared by Mount Bohemia (@mountbohemia)
  "There is still snow cover and base in the Haunted Valley, an
  
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• A 95-Year-Old Was The Last Person Riding The Lifts During Minnesota Ski Area's Closing Day

  19-03-2024 21:42 via powder.com
  
  Welch Village Ski & Snowboard Area, Minnesota, closed for the season this past weekend on Sunday, March 17th, with one member of the community hanging on to winter longer than anyone else. "Can you guess who was the last one off the slopes…?" Welch Village asked on Facebook. "Alex," a 95-year-old skier.Alex racked up more ski days than most at Welch Village, visiting the Minnesota ski area almost 60 times this season, and he's already planning for the next one."He made a point to
  
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• Skier Puts "Pedal To The Metal" On America's Steepest Inbounds Trail

  19-03-2024 21:36 via powder.com
  
  We've covered this run before. So has Drew Peterson. But there's a reason for it: not only is Rambo the steepest tree-cut inbounds run in North America, it amps us up for the last leg of the season. Salomon Freeski seems to agree. They posted a video of Peterson attacking Rambo with speed, power, and flow two days ago to Instagram below. View this post on InstagramA post shared by Salomon Freeski (@salomonfreeski)
  Located in Crested Butte, Rambo is steep, lined by trees, and also
  
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• Meteorologist Predicting "4-8 Inches" Of New Snow For New York, Vermont

  19-03-2024 20:26 via powder.com
  
  Meteorologist Tyler Jankoski at NBC5 recently announced that a variety of factors will keep Vermont's snow showers going through midweek--and Vermont has already seen significant amounts in the past few days. The snowstorms should be most intense Wednesday, Wednesday night and Thursday morning. If you add up the next few days worth of snowfall, Jankowski estimates that 4-8" or even more should fall along the Green Mountain spine and in the Adirondacks, with a foot possible at Jay.
  
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• Vermont Ski Resort Touts "Bleeping Perfect" Snow Conditions Following Storm

  19-03-2024 19:51 via powder.com
  
  March continues to deliver for Sugarbush Resort, Vermont, which, in an Instagram post shared today, touted "bleeping perfect" skiing conditions after another round of fresh snow.View this post on InstagramA post shared by Sugarbush, Vermont (@sugarbush_vt)
  Sugarbush has received eight inches of snow in the past 24 hours and 33 inches this month. If a predicted storm hits hard this weekend, the resort could experience its snowiest week of the season.A little more snow is predicted earlier this we
  
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• Vermont Ski Area Refuses To Give Up On Winter With Overnight Snowmaking

  19-03-2024 19:27 via powder.com
  
  Bromley Mountain in Vermont isn't letting spring in just yet. As of March 18th, Bromley Mountain announced to Facebook that their Snowmaking Team has fired up the snow guns and are touching up key areas on the mountain. In other words... "The season WILL continue!"This morning's snow report confirmed the best, as Oliver at Bromley wrote, "I suppose our snowmaking efforts have done some tide turning and the luck from St. Patrick’s Day has leaked over... last night we received 4 in
  
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• Massachusetts/New York Ski Areas To Resume Snowmaking This Week

  19-03-2024 19:21 via powder.com
  
  Berkshire East Mountain Resort, Massachusetts, and Catamount Mountain Resort, New York/Massachusetts (Catamount straddles the New York-Massachusetts border), will blow snow this week, according to a Facebook post from Berkshire East."Snow will be made this week!" the Facebook post reads. "Berkshire East and Catamount aren't giving up just yet!"The Schaefer family owns both resorts, hence the doubled-up announcement. At Berkshire East, webcams show a distinct lack of snow, with thin white trails
  
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• Sunday River Hosting Solar Eclipse Viewing Party

  19-03-2024 18:51 via powder.com
  
  As one of the few mountains that will have nearly complete totality for the 2024 Solar Eclipse, Sunday River, ME, is hosting a solar eclipse viewing party on April 8th from 3-4pm. The resort announced the event in an Instagram post yesterday. See below. View this post on InstagramA post shared by Sunday River (@sundayriver)
  The mountain is commemorating the occasion by offering extended lifts, a party at North Peak, and up to 20% off lodging. On Eclipse day, Sunday River
  
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• Vail Resorts Launching New AI Assistant For Colorado Ski Resorts

  19-03-2024 18:41 via powder.com
  
  The buzzword of a generation has finally come for snowsports.No, not in the form of too-chatty-talking AI skis that critique your form with every turn.Yesterday, Vail Resorts announced that its My Epic app will feature an AI assistant called My Epic Assistant at select ski areas next season.View this post on InstagramA post shared by Epic Pass (@epicpass)
  My Epic Assistant, which debuts at four Colorado resorts—Vail Mountain, Beaver Creek, Breckenridge, and Keystone—functions like a
  
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• Whistler Skiers Reveal Depth Of Deceiving Tree Wells

  19-03-2024 18:06 via powder.com
  
  Several snow-dense storms have barraged Whistler Blackcomb, British Columbia, in the past several weeks, creating magnificent skiing conditions and increasing the risk of snow-borne hazards like tree wells.In a recent Reddit post, a pair of skiers investigated the depth of the tree wells Whistler Blackcomb. Their findings? Even a small tree had a well around six and a half feet deep.View the original article to see embedded media.One note. Since Whistler Blackcomb picked up multiple feet of powd
  
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• Old Books, Good Tips - Part II

  19-03-2024 16:00 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.Learning the telemark turn is to reimagine edging a ski. Though styles and teaching paradigms have changed, many an alpine skier has used the inside edge of their outside foot to great effect, and often alone in the turn. Telemark begs the skier to take a different approach. Two feet are ideally employed equally, steered by the rear foot, to create one long inside edge i
  
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• Maine's Finest Athlete Skis Iconic Sugarloaf Run

  19-03-2024 14:30 via powder.com
  
  Donny Pelletier may be a legend of Sunday River, ME, but he recently skied Sugarloaf, because it was "a mint day couplah weeks back." The pairing here is impeccable. First: what else would Maine's finest athlete ski besides moguls? And second: what better mogul run in Maine than Bubblecuffer? Watch Donny once again attack a never-before-skied mogul line below.View this post on InstagramA post shared by Donny Pelletier (@donnypelletier207)
  Bubblecuffer, as Loafers know, is hard and fast
  
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• Park City Mountain Resort Extends Ski Season

  19-03-2024 14:15 via powder.com
  
  The Spring Equinox is today, and on that note... Spring skiing! Park City Mountain, UT, is certainly part of this celebration, announcing (alongside their 60th season announcement) that their new closing date will be Monday, April 22nd, a week later than normal. View this post on InstagramA post shared by Park City Mountain (@pcski)
  A post to Instagram wrote, "let’s keep the party going! Our new closing day will be Monday, April 22. We are excited to offer more than 1,400 acres o
  
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• Vermont's Snowiest Resort Picks Up 7 Inches Of Snow With "Plenty" More On The Way

  19-03-2024 14:00 via powder.com
  
  While some resorts in the East Coast are struggling right now, Vermont seems to be doing just fine. Officials at Jay Peak confirmed this, at least at their resort, in a Facebook post yesterday, writing, "around 7” of powdery, fine snow at our stake here in the early afternoon."Not only that, but Jay Peak reports weather conditions are still blizzard-ing at the resort, and "plenty more" snow is on the way. By 3:30pm, another 2-4" of powdery, fine snow at our stake this afternoon o
  
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• Skier Narrowly Avoids Disaster During Massive Backflip

  19-03-2024 13:30 via powder.com
  
  Last week, during a trip with Cascade Powder Guides into the Washington backcountry, skier Noah Maisonet had an incredibly close call as he landed a massive backflip.View this post on InstagramA post shared by 4FRNT_SKIS (@4frnt_skis)
  You probably don't need me to tell you this, but in an ideal world, you don't land on a buried obstacle after soaring 50-odd feet through the air. Landings are supposed to be, y'know, clear of stuff that could fold you in half.But Maisonet, running on a combination
  
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• Deer Valley Resorts Extends Ski Season For An Additional Week

  19-03-2024 13:00 via powder.com
  
  Late last week, Deer Valley Resort, Utah, shared an announcement that should make the ears of skiers perk up: the resort is extending its ski season by a week.Deer Valley originally planned to close on April 14th, but it will now close on Sunday, April 21st.View this post on InstagramA post shared by Deer Valley Resort (@deervalleyresort)
  It's the second time in Deer Valley's 40-year history that the resort has extended the ski season. The extension was spurred by the latter half of the 2023-202
  
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• Southern California Ski Resort Opens For First Time In Four Years

  19-03-2024 00:10 via powder.com
  
  Mt Waterman Ski Lifts is the closest day ski area in Los Angeles, and the area rarely opens. In a stroke of luck, however, Mt Waterman reported that they opened this weekend for March 16th & 17th from  9:30am-4:30pm on both Saturday and Sunday. Mt Waterman in business. Photo courtesy of Mt Waterman. Mt Waterman PhotosThis was adjusted when the resort posted that it will now be open only half a day on Saturday, from noon to 4 PM. However, the area does not have snowmaking, rely
  
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