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• X Games Reveals Headlining Musical Acts for Winter 2025

  29-10-2024 23:12 via powder.com
  
  Daily Bread, an electro-soul and hip-hop producer, is scheduled to perform on Thursday, January 23rd, the first day of X Games Aspen.Photo: Courtesy Daily Bread/X GamesDrum roll, please. X Games has announced that IILLENIIUM and Daily Bread will provide the musical score for one of freeskiing and snowboarding’s biggest events– 2025 X Games Aspen.Daily Bread, an electro-soul and hip-hop producer, is scheduled to perform on Thursday, January 23rd, the first day of X G
  
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• Idaho Ski Resort Doubles Its Real Estate With 500 Acre Acquisition

  29-10-2024 20:32 via powder.com
  
  Earlier this month, Tamarack Resort, Idaho, announced that it had doubled its developable acreage by acquiring 500 acres of land contiguous to the resort. The land connects to 300 acres Tamarack acquired in 2019, meaning that, in total, the resort’s land real estate development holdings have expanded by 800 acres.
   The planned development will include approximately 700 residential units. As the land exists below Tamarack’s proposed mountain expansion, some of these developments
  
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• Maine Ski Area Hits The Market for $25MM+

  29-10-2024 18:44 via powder.com
  
  You could own a ski resort for the cool price of $27,000,000.Big Moose Mountain Ski Area, Maine, is for sale. The property covers 1,200 mountainside acres and has a 1,700-foot vertical drop and two chairlifts (the current operators do not run the ski area's summit lift leaving the vertical at roughly 600 feet). In addition to the mountain terrain, there are 3,050 acres spanning Louis Peak, Fitzgerald Farm, and a four-mile stretch of shorefront alongside Mountain View Pond.“The chance to bu
  
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• Ski Slope Ratings Explained: From Green to Black Diamond Runs

  29-10-2024 17:21 via powder.com
  
  Colored ski run shapes provide a guiding light for skiers as they navigate the slopes.Photo: Judy Bishop-The Travelling Eye/Getty ImagesSlightly silly colored shapes are a foundational element of the skiing experience. Green circle, blue square, black diamond, and double black diamond—these ski run difficulty levels give skiers a rough idea of what to expect after they disembark the lift.Ski trail ratings aren’t gospel, though. They vary—sometimes quite signif
  
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• What Norm War? Dave Bombard's Bishop Telemark Stands Above It All

  29-10-2024 17:00 via powder.com
  
  Dave Bombard can’t hear me–but I can see him. The founder and chief designer of the tiny Bishop Telemark is glued to his other monitor, our video meeting silent on his end. As I beckon into the ether, I get a glimpse of the small manufacturer's operation like the proverbial fly on the wall. Instead of from his own office as owner-from-on-high, Bombard is in the trenches that day, sharing the space with three of his employees. There they work designing, assembling, and selling some of
  
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• Italian Ski Racer Matilde Lorenzi Dies in Training Accident

  29-10-2024 15:33 via powder.com
  
  The International Ski and Snowboard Federation (FIS) has published a press release on October 29, 2024 confirming the death of Italian ski racer Matilde Lorenzi.Lorenzi's life was lost during a training run on the Grawand G1 slope in Val Senales, Italy. She was just 19 years old.Lorenzi was a rising star in the competitive Italian ski racing ranks. She finished in 8th place in the Giant Slalom at the 2024 Italian National Championships, and had done well on the junior circuit.FIS' press release
  
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