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• FIS Reveals Date for Freeride World Championships

  26-11-2024 21:44 via powder.com
  
  The inaugural International Ski and Snowboard Federation (FIS) Freeride World Championships will be held in Ordino Arcalís, Andorra, with a weather window extending between February 1st and February 6th, 2026.The already-teased event mirrors preexisting FIS championship competitions, like the Alpine World Ski Championships.“This is a defining moment for freeride skiing and snowboarding. The FIS Freeride World Championships represents the pinnacle of our sport, bringing together the
  
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• Black Friday 2025: The Best Deals For Skiers

  26-11-2024 19:00 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.Holiday shopping season is upon us, and of course Black Friday/Cyber Monday is a great time to score some amazing deals on ski gear, apparel, accessories, and gifts. There are plenty of discounts to be had online, but remember to stop by your favorite local ski shop to check out what they have to offer! WNDR Alpine - 25% off ski bundlesWNDR Alpine is offering 15 per
  
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• Pennsylvania's Largest Ski Resort Delays Opening

  26-11-2024 17:45 via powder.com
  
  Blue Mountain Resort, Pennsylvania’s largest ski area, has delayed its opening day, citing a shift in temperatures. The resort initially aimed to open on Friday, November 29, 2024.Instead of welcoming skiers this coming Friday, Blue Mountain will begin a snowmaking push. “The temperatures look AWESOME this weekend for around the clock production,” a social media post from the resort reads.Ahead of the 2024 and 2025 ski season, Blue Mountain added 132 new stick guns and six new
  
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• Meet the Noco Kneedroppers: Telemark's Most Grassroots and Fun Crew

  26-11-2024 17:00 via powder.com
  
  “If we’re going to do a gear library, we don’t want to lend out crap,” Nate Atkinson tells me with his ever-present smile. Part enthusiast, part grassroots pied piper, Atkinson and his friend Jeremy Utz’s Noco Kneedroppers–a get-out-and-tele group focused first on stoke–could be something of a harbinger of telemark’s revival-in-the-making.Their Adirondack-based outfit not only puts together weekly Tele Tuesdays at their local hill, Mount Pisgah, th
  
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• Howitzers for Peace— A Skiing Alternative to Military Destruction

  26-11-2024 16:15 via powder.com
  
  Howitzers For Peace
  The following article first appeared in POWDER's Fall 2024 print issue, 'Not Another Gear Guide'. Get a copy shipped directly to your home, or look for it on a newsstand near you.There’s a lot of old junk in my house. It’s basically a ski bum museum–about 25 pairs of skis (mostly old ones I have deemed “classic” for some reason), faded postcards and lift tickets from all over the world, a complete collection of Powder Magazines from 1991 on, and
  
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• Ski Gear Doesn't Matter... Until it Does

  26-11-2024 16:01 via powder.com
  
  The following article first appeared in POWDER's Fall 2024 print issue, 'Not Another Gear Guide'. Get a copy shipped directly to your home, or look for it on a newsstand near you.It’s insane the amount of gear we need for a day of skiing. Last winter, while skinning up little old Snow King Mountain in Jackson, Wyoming, I asked my friend to name another sport that requires as much gear as we skiers do. He thought about it a minute, and then suggested that, maybe…big wall climbing? So
  
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• Ski Webcam Records Deadly Boeing 737 Crash

  26-11-2024 14:48 via powder.com
  
  A Boeing 737 crash near the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius made international headlines yesterday, November 25, 2024. The cause of the crash is being investigated, but German officials are concerned that "hybrid warfare" was used, according to CNN.The cargo plane, operated by international shipping company DHL, crashed into a residential neighborhood roughly a half mile short of its intended landing strip at the Vilnius airport. The plane was operated by four crew members. One passed away in the
  
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