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• Colorado Skier Injured in Avalanche on Berthoud Pass

  04-12-2024 23:13 via powder.com
  
  A skier was caught and seriously injured in an avalanche on Colorado’s Berthoud pass on Tuesday, December 3, 2024, according to a statement from Grand County Search and Rescue (GCSAR).The skier managed to dig themself out of the avalanche’s debris. However, due to their injuries, they couldn’t leave the backcountry on their own.At about 3:17 p.m. GCSAR was activated to respond and was joined by multiple agencies including Grand County Sheriff’s Office, Grand County Emerge
  
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• WRAPPED: The Top 5 Songs Used in Ski Films in 2024

  04-12-2024 22:52 via powder.com
  
  Picture this: you’re at a ski film premiere, you’ve gotten your poster signed by your favorite athlete, you grabbed a free t-shirt someone threw in the audience, and now you’ve settled into watching *insert production company’s* latest flick in all its glory on the big screen with a great sound system.
  The film shows some b-roll, a lower-third graphic flashes across the screen with the name of a skier whose style you’d love to have one day, and you find yourself hea
  
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• Why Did Google Remove Ski Lifts, Trails from Maps?

  04-12-2024 21:28 via powder.com
  
  Eagle-eyed skiers may have noticed that Google Maps, at least at major North American ski resorts, no longer features ski trails and lifts as it once did in the past.The apparent absence, which we confirmed by checking a few ski areas on Google Maps—like Jackson Hole Mountain Resort, Whistler Blackcomb, and Park City Mountain Resort—sparked a recent Change.org petition.“As a skiing enthusiast and tourism professional, I passionately believe that ski lifts and cableways are far
  
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• Avalanche Chases Snowboarder Down Tuckerman Ravine, New Hampshire

  04-12-2024 21:10 via powder.com
  
  Just because it’s the beginning of the season doesn’t mean there’s not enough snow for avalanches.
  Mount Washington Avalanche Center (MWAC) shared a video earlier this week that proves just that. You can watch a snowboarder break off a not-insignificant wind slab into some funnel shaped terrain. Luckily, it looks like the snowboarder was able to ride out ahead of most of the debris and avoid getting buried.
  Video recorded on November 29, 2024. Watch below.The video was taken on
  
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• Shuttered Ski Area Near Yellowstone Hits Market for $500k

  04-12-2024 20:51 via powder.com
  
  Sleeping Giant, a small ski area near Cody, Wyoming, and Yellowstone National Park has hit the market for $500,000.As far as ski area sales go, Sleeping Giant is a steal. The ski area costs less than many homes in the resort town of Jackson, Wyoming. According to Zillow, the average Jackson home value is $2,026,346. However, the ski area operates via a Forest Service land lease, so the sale only includes Sleeping Giant's infrastructure.The ski area's owner, Nick Piazza, told the Cowboy State Dai
  
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• Bozeman Skiers Release Highly-Acclaimed Indie Film for Free on YouTube

  04-12-2024 18:47 via powder.com
  
  While the components to a quality short ski film aren’t rocket science, executing them well is no easy task. Bozeman-based ski crew Entourage seems to have nailed it in their latest film, which was released for free on YouTube in November.
  Soda follows a handful of young shredders from the Montana backcountry to the sunny spring slopes of Mt. Hood to a bunch of random parking lots, because what would a park edit be without some street skiing?
  Tap to watch the film for free below.
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• Drake and Rihanna Featured on Canadian Ski Movie Masterpiece

  04-12-2024 17:19 via powder.com
  
  Come one, come all and feast your eyes on a new film by British Columbia based filmmaker, Joey Kraft.
  Standing just under twenty minutes in length, the film features the skiing of seven different athletes with about as much variety in terrain as you can pack into the fast-paced run time. The film has something for everyone between big mountain segments like Tristan Underhill’s heavy-metal backed spine segment and Luca Natale’s ability to have equally good style on pillow lines and ur
  
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• The Best Stocking Stuffers Gifts For Skiers

  04-12-2024 16:53 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.Would you rather spend that extra cash on your next ski trip, but still have some last-minute gift shopping to do? Turns out that happens to me every year. I get caught up in early-season powder turns, resort openings, and stoke about snowfall that October turns to the end of December quite quickly. But, fret not. Here’s my take on the best stocking stuffer gi
  
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• Dry Hill: Finally Dry

  04-12-2024 14:30 via nyskiblog.com
  Back in 2010, I began work on NYSkiBlog’s Directory of NY Ski Areas to educate myself about New York skiing. In the process, I learned about Dry Hill, the other Tug Hill ski area. It’s a beautiful ski hill on a ripple in the terrain, a few miles south of Watertown. Dry Hill has a magic all her own. There’s a lot to like about Dry Hill. Dry has a double chair, a T-bar and a magic carpet serving 7 » Read More »
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• Utah Resort To Start Ski Season With Unique Night Opening

  04-12-2024 12:28 via powder.com
  
  As skiers, we’ve all heard of opening day, but what about opening night?Powder Mountain's ski season kick-off won’t feature clear skies and crystalline flashes of sun-pierced snow. Instead it all starts the evening of Saturday, December 7, 2024.
   Tickets cost $19 Saturday and will remain at the price for night skiing season long (mid-season day tickets start at $92 and can cost more than $200 during peak periods). Night skiing includes access to the Sundown Lift and the Sun Tunn
  
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• Tree Falls on Chairlift at Oregon Ski Area, Causing Delay

  04-12-2024 12:04 via powder.com
  
  Trees are great. They’re fun to ski through (unless they’re too tight), but sometimes, as with Mt. Ashland Ski Area, Oregon, they cause problems. The ski hill recently shared that a tree fell on the eighth tower of its Ariel Chairlift in late November. The clean up required the involvement of tree removal specialists and Mt. Ashland’s mountain operations team. All told, it took 11 hours. While the tree is now gone, the Ariel Chairlift’s opening is delayed. “Insuranc
  
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• Iconic Colorado Chairlift Opens Thursday

  04-12-2024 00:10 via powder.com
  
  It’s the center of the universe—or, at least, the center of Arapahoe Basin, Colorado.The ski area's iconic Pallavicini chairlift—known affectionately by locals as the “Pali” lift—opens this Thursday (December 5, 2024), bolstering the available terrain significantly. Pali opened on December 25, 2023 last season.Arapahoe Basin first opened this season on Saturday, November 2nd, making it one of North America’s first ski areas offering lift-served skiing an
  
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