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• Midwest Ski Area To Host Movie Night With Iconic Filmmaker

  05-09-2024 22:33 via powder.com
  
  Minnesota skiers, clear your schedules—an opportunity to re-up on pre-season stoke is just around the corner.Ski Movie Night at Hyland Hills.midwestskiers.comStoried ski filmmaker and Armada Skis co-founder Eric Iberg, along with Matthew Zabransky of Midwestskiers.com, will show a series of ski films at Hyland Hills, a small ski area in the Minneapolis area, on Saturday, September 7th. Iberg and Zabransky will attend the event for a meet-and-greet.The event starts at 5:00 p.m.,
  
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• Colorado Ski Resort Sees First Snow

  05-09-2024 18:40 via powder.com
  
  The hype train keeps rolling. Last night, into the morning of September 5, 2024, Arapahoe Basin, Colorado, picked up its first snowfall of the season. Here’s a photo of the initial upper mountain dusting. Fresh snow covers the upper elevations of Arapahoe Basin Ski Area on September 5, 2024.Photo: Lucas Herbert/Arapahoe Basin Ski AreaIt’s admittedly not much, but it's September. We’ll take what we can get. A few other Coloradan resorts picked up snow, too, inc
  
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• Pro Skier Endures "Harsh" Summer Chamonix Mission in Video

  05-09-2024 18:14 via powder.com
  
  When 5-hour Energy asked what POWDER would like to create as part of a summer-long partnership, an idea instantly began to take shape — we see plenty of content about American professional skiers in the winter, but how do they train in the summer?For the first episode, we tasked professional big mountain skier and annual film star Jim Ryan with filming in the Chamonix, France. Watch below.POWDER identified a few regions where the 'Americans Abroad' episodes could be filmed that c
  
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• Review: Scott SEA 98

  05-09-2024 18:00 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 narrowest in Scott’s new SEA (Ski Everything Anytime) lineup, the SEA 98 is aimed at the all-mountain resort ski market. It’s on the narrower side with a 98mm waist, but it has a soft snow-friendly profile and a directional flex pattern that sets it apart from many other skis in the market. It also has a damper flex profile than many skis in this bracket,
  
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• Review: Völkl Blaze 104

  05-09-2024 17:30 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.Volkl might be best known for big, stiff and heavy directional monsters, but the Germans have recently changed their tune a bit to offer more approachable, lighter, and playful skis. This year, the Blaze 104 takes that mentality to the next level, with an excellent lightweight freeride ski that would be equally at home skiing chalky steeps inbounds as it would full-time
  
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• Review: Salomon Départ 1.0

  05-09-2024 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.Salomon’s Départ 1.0 is more than a new ski, it’s a new direction for one of the biggest brands in skiing. The ski itself also reexamines what a ‘freestyle’ ski should look like, aiming to create a platform for creative skiing beyond the regular bounds of a terrain park. It looks like anything but a traditional twin-tipped park ski, an
  
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• First Snowfalls Recorded at Colorado Ski Resorts

  05-09-2024 16:29 via powder.com
  
  A media alert was issued by Vail Resorts on Thursday, September 5, 2024 to celebrate the first recorded snowfalls of the season at Keystone Resort and Breckenridge Ski Resort, both located in Summit County, Colorado.POWDER has obtained the following images via press release of the season's first flakes gracefully laying on the high elevation peaks of the resorts. See below.Keystone Resort, CO First Snowfall, 9/5/24All photos by Katie Young, Keystone ResortPhoto: Keystone Ski Resor
  
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• When to Expect Your First Snowfall This Winter

  05-09-2024 15:53 via powder.com
  
  POWDER has already covered first snowfalls that have taken place in Canada, Montana, Wyoming, and California, but we've yet to discuss when to expect your first snowfall this winter.Thankfully, our friends at Direct Weather have us covered. Check out their video detailing when you can expect your first snowfall below, keep reading for more information.The first snowfall of the season can be a tease for skiers, as POWDER writer Ian Greenwood explained last week, but it's an event worth celeb
  
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• Why Did a Baseball Player Hit a Home Run in Ski Boots?

  05-09-2024 14:46 via powder.com
  
  Reese Alexiades skis through the baseball field, up to the plate, and then hits a 430 foot home run. By the way, he has ski boots on.What is this strange sport resembling a conglomeration between a fever dream and a child's dream come true? It is a game from the Savannah Bananas, an exhibition barnstorming baseball team based out of Savannah, Georgia. Watch the unique spectacle below.Savannah Bananas Ski Boots Homerun VideoSavannah Bananas Ski Boots Home Run (1:16) Dubbed "ba
  
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• Which Ski Resorts Will Open First for the 2024-2025 Season?

  05-09-2024 14:02 via powder.com
  
  La Nina forecasts, Farmer's Almanac prognostications, and 2024-2025 gear releases—the now-bubbling collective ski fever will break in the not so distant future.The anticipatory atmosphere naturally leads towards one question: who, of the hundreds of North American ski resorts, will open first this season? Admittedly, answering that question with any certainty isn’t that much better than visiting Caesars Palace and spending a few hours—or days—staring at the slot machines.
  
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