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• Crews Begin Annual Snow Clearing Of Montana's Beartooth Highway

  23-04-2024 22:28 via powder.com
  
  Beartooth Highway in Montana is closed all winter due to heavy snowfall (it provides access to Beartooth Basin Ski Area, after all), but MDOT crews have just begun clearing the road for summer. A video posted to YouTube from a Montana Department of Transportation plow driver states, "April 16th, 2024... as you can tell from the pictures yesterday, we made it up the hill quite a ways." Watch below.Once you see the route Beartooth Highway leads, it's easy to understand why this road closes du
  
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• Jackson Hole Announces New Sublette Lift For Next Season

  23-04-2024 20:15 via powder.com
  
  Jackson Hole Mountain Resort, Wyoming, will replace its four-seater fixed-grip Sublette lift with a faster and more powerful detachable quad this summer. JHMR plans to have the new lift ready for the 2024-2025 season.The replacement lift—a Leitner-Poma—will reduce Sublette's ride time from eight to four minutes, climbing approximately 1,600 vertical feet at 1,000 feet per minute. JHMR is replacing its 37-year-old predecessor due to its age.The original Sublette Lift ferries skiers up
  
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• An Ode to Free-Heel Corn Skiing

  23-04-2024 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.As the days lengthen, basking the world anew in renewed sunlight, the valleys return to a verdant green, and a fresh energy imbues the mountains. The promise of summer returns. But to the rider of snow, spring has its own unique meaning. High in the alpine, where ample snow remains, the skier is promised not with the fertile abundance awaiting winter’s end, but wit
  
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• Trevor Semmens Breaks Down His "Near-Disaster" Crash On McConkey's

  23-04-2024 16:10 via powder.com
  
  Towering over the looker's left side of the KT-22 lift—a Palisades Tahoe classic—stands McConkey's (previously known as Eagle's Nest—Palisades changed the name in honor of the late, great Shane McConkey), an imposing, near-vertical face that's functioned as a big mountain test piece for years and years. A skier descends McConkey's at Palisades Tahoe, CaliforniaCourtesy Palisades TahoeThe zone's weighty reputation is well-deserved. Popularized by the likes of—you guessed i
  
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