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• Colorado Ski Resort Selling Tickets for As Low as $9

  03-09-2024 23:31 via powder.com
  
  Purgatory Resort, Colorado, has announced its planned opening date, weather and conditions permitting: November 16th, 2024. That’s all well and good—who isn’t excited to start skiing?—but another tidbit of information Purgatory Resort released should make the ears of bargain-hungry skiers perk up. The resort’s lift tickets for the 2024-2025 season are now on sale, and select dates cost as little as $9. For instance, at the time of writing this, a lift ticket to Purg
  
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• Idaho Ski Resort Opens its Own Fire Department

  03-09-2024 21:07 via powder.com
  
  POWDER has learned via press release, that Brundage Mountain, known for being Idaho's snowiest ski resort based on average annual snowfall, has created its own fire department ahead of the Winter '24/'25 season.Brundage Mountain, Idaho will have a new look this season including a renovated base lodge and the addition of an in-house fire department and EMS transportation.Photo: Brundage MountainThe Brundage Mountain Fire Protection Association (BFMPA) officially began providing ser
  
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• A Love Letter to My Favorite Telemark Setups

  03-09-2024 19:38 via powder.com
  
  The first nip of cool weather means one thing: ski season beckons. And as the mind looks forward to winter, it has a way of thinking of things past. Bygone seasons resurface as the rosiest memories. The deepest days, the sweetest corn, the tangled recall of those hazy apres moments.As sweet as those memories are, one of the most enduring keepsakes of winters’ past are the very implements that let us slide on snow: our skis. Going to the garage I run my hands over my planks, and those days
  
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• Pro Skier Stars in Music Video for Grammy Nominated Band’s New Single

  03-09-2024 17:40 via powder.com
  
  The lead single off of Yonder Mountain String Band's upcoming album, Nowhere Next, dances between two emotional poles. “Am I growing or failing?” asks one refrain of the song, Here I Go, featuring 16-time Grammy Award Winner and dobro player Jerry Douglas. “Which narrative will win?”Watch as professional skier Chris Benchetler stars in the newly-released music video below.Skiers who’ve ever perched atop a spooky line or cliff can relate—improving on the slopes
  
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• Review: Dynastar M-Free 112

  03-09-2024 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.A new ski to the Dynastar M-Free line, the 2025 M-Free 112 replaces the discontinued 118 as the widest ski in the lineup. It has a very similar profile to its stablemate, the Rossignol Sender Free 110, but without the metal laminate, so they don’t have that metal ski feel. If you’re looking for an M-Free to ski more as a powder ski than a resort driver, these
  
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• Review: Armada ARV/W 106

  03-09-2024 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.The ARV/ARW 106 has been a staple of the Armada lineup for some years now. The all-new ski for Winter ‘24/25 is by our reckoning the fourth rebuild of the ski with the ARV 106 name and over the years, Armada has been making the ski burlier, stiffer, and more suited to an aggressive style of skiing. The new ski bucks that trend, returning to a softer, more playful p
  
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• Colorado Ski Resort Announces Opening Day for Winter '24/'25 Season

  03-09-2024 15:31 via powder.com
  
  Copper Mountain, Colorado, one of the state's largest in terms of total skiable terrain, has announced their projected opening date for the Winter '24/'25 season as Friday, November 5, 2024, weather and conditions permitting, of course.Downhill training course at Copper Mountain, Colorado on November 15, 2011.Photo: Doug Pensinger/Getty ImagesThe resort has made a concerted effort through early-season snowmaking in recent years to compete with the likes of Keystone, CO; Arapaho
  
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• Arizona Observes First Snow of the Season

  03-09-2024 14:48 via powder.com
  
  Believe it or not, but Arizona logged its first snowfall of the season on August 31, 2024. The state's largest ski resort, Arizona Snowbowl, took to social media to celebrate the occasion with a video of the accumulated flakes. See below.Arizona First Snow of Season, August 24, 2024Arizona Snowbowl First Snow, August 31, 2024 (0:15) Internet commenters are wondering if the precipitation is the product of a summer hail storm rather than snow, but others could seem to care less. In fact, mult
  
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