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• Another Colorado Ski Area Tests Snowmaking Amidst Warm and Dry Conditions

  10-10-2024 23:11 via powder.com
  
  Loveland, one of several Colorado-based ski areas known for getting the ski season started early, fired up its snow guns for a snowmaking run yesterday, October 9, 2024. See below.While the effort was just a test, it teased winter’s impending arrival, much to the excitement of local skiers who crowded into the comment section to express their enthusiasm. Elsewhere in the state, Arapahoe Basin has also conducted a snowmaking test.Denver-area skiers will likely be waiting for a bit longer be
  
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• The 5 Most Luxurious Ski Resorts in North America

  10-10-2024 19:49 via powder.com
  
  You could easily argue that skiing, in and of itself, is a luxury sport. The gear is expensive, as are all the associated accouterments like season passes and lessons. Some destinations take this foundational element and run with it, housing enormously fancy hotels with fine-dining opportunities to match. These are five of the most luxurious ski resorts in North America. Talking about luxury and skiing—at least in the North American context—without mentioning the Yellowstone Club, a
  
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• New Book Examines How Climate Change Fuels Hurricanes

  10-10-2024 19:01 via powder.com
  
  Category Five: Superstorms and the Warming Oceans That Feed Them, the new book from author and former POWDER masthead member Porter Fox, begins with a near-disaster.
  Fox, then a young sailor, is caught near the shores of New England by a sudden line squall that plunges him and his vessel into the frigid water. While Fox ultimately survived the encounter, he writes that such outbreaks of violent oceanic weather haunted him for much of his young life.Hurricane Milton as seen from the International
  
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• Former US Olympic Ski Racer Joins DPS Skis Design Team

  10-10-2024 18:28 via powder.com
  
  Salt Lake City-based ski makers DPS Skis announced a new team member today: Ted Ligety. The two-time Olympic gold medalist, who won the combined event in the 2006 Torino games and the Giant Slalom in the 2014 Sochi games, is joining the team as both an athlete ambassador and the new Head of Product Performance. As a member of the US Ski Team for 18 years and a 25-time World Cup winner, Ligety is renowned for his technical prowess on snow and brings years of expertise testing race skis, as well a
  
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• First Snow of the Season Falls on Multiple Vermont Ski Resorts

  10-10-2024 18:05 via powder.com
  
  There's nothing like the first snowfall of the season to get the ski juices flowing, so to say. The return of snow is like a warm hug from a long lost friend.Vermonters are likely feeling elated as many of their favorite ski resorts were dusted by their first snowfalls overnight and into the morning of October 10, 2024. Check out the accumulation on Killington Resort's 'North Ridge' webcam below.Killington, Vermont's first snowfall of the season. North Ridge Webcam, October 10, 2024.Photo&co
  
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• La Niña Odds Waver in Latest Update

  10-10-2024 17:12 via powder.com
  
  The likelihood of La Niña forming by September of 2024 was above 80% in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's April 2024 update.It's been six months since, and La Niña has yet to emerge. In fact, in the October 10, 2024 update to NOAA's El Niño/Southern Oscillation Diagnostic Discussion, the likelihood of La Niña has decreased to just 60%.La Niña occurs when Sea Surface Temperatures (SSTs) cool in the 'Key Monitoring Region' seen above. This ani
  
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• Ikon Pass Prices Increase Sooner Than You Think

  10-10-2024 00:04 via powder.com
  
  Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, skiers and snowboarders— the time has come to purchase your Ikon Pass before prices increase tomorrow, October 10, 2024.That's right, the date you saw five months ago and thought you had plenty of time to prepare for has arrived! All pass prices will increase tomorrow, including a $90 hike for an adult Ikon Pass.Jackson Hole Mountain Resort, Wyoming is on the Ikon Pass for the Winter '24/'25 season. Ikon Pass holders must make reservations in advance,
  
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