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• Netflix Co-Founder Compares His Utah Ski Resort to Streaming

  06-12-2024 20:16 via powder.com
  
  Which of these things is not like the other: snow, skiing, Netflix. If you guessed Netflix as the outlier, according to Netflix founder and Powder Mountain CEO, you’d be wrong. In a recent interview, billionaire entrepreneur Reed Hastings talked about the similarities in running a streaming service to running a ski mountain.
  To paraphrase Hastings’ words, streaming and ski passes are both about keeping the same folks coming back for more than targeting new ones. For a place like
  
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• Woman-Owned Brand Wild Rye Announces New Ski Outerwear Line

  06-12-2024 19:04 via powder.com
  
  A wave of brands making women’s specific gear has come through the ski industry in the last few years. While plenty of popular, big name brands make women’s base layers, outerwear, and accessories, speaking from years of personal experience, it can sometimes be difficult to find gear that fits a range of bodies and doesn’t come in the ‘we didn’t want to make it pink so we made it purple or turquoise’ color-way.
  Sun Valley-based brand Wild Rye sought to change
  
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• TREW & Dovetail Workwear Drop New Women's Ski Work Bibs

  06-12-2024 19:00 via powder.com
  
  Ultralight gear is great for light-and-fast backcountry missions, but the unfortunate downside of featherweight materials is that they just aren't as durable. If you spend your days working outside in the cold, you'll know that toughness and durability are huge. A tear or a failed seam are no fun when the weather turns nasty and you're halfway through a shift.TREW teamed up with Dovetail Workwear (the PNW-based brand specializing in women's workwear) to create the ultimate extreme-weather work b
  
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• A Skier’s Guide To Prepping Your Car For Winter Driving

  06-12-2024 18:00 via powder.com
  
  Planning to take full advantage of your resort season pass this winter and have lots of trips into the mountains planned? Have you checked in with your car or truck lately to confirm that it’s ready to safely drive on frozen, snowy roads? It’s easy to get caught up in all the chores of seasonal transition, so take the time to make sure your vehicle is ready so you don’t get caught out in the cold in the middle of nowhere on your next powder day.Anyone who’s spent time liv
  
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• Powder Alert Issued for Washington and Oregon, Refresh for Colorado, Utah

  06-12-2024 17:15 via powder.com
  
  High pressure over the West is finally losing its grip, making room for new storms. From the Pacific Northwest Cascades down into parts of the northern Rockies, a significant round of snowfall is set to arrive this weekend (December 7-8, 2024).Over the weekend, moisture-laden fronts push into the PNW, bringing deep snow to the Washington and Oregon Cascades. As that system slides inland, the northern Rockies will get their turn by late Sunday into Monday, with places like Idaho and western Monta
  
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• Lindsey Vonn Returns To Ski Racing This Weekend

  06-12-2024 16:08 via powder.com
  
  This weekend, legendary alpine skier Lindsey Vonn will race competitively for the first time in nearly six years.Vonn is set to compete in the FIS Fall Festival at Copper Mountain, Colorado, according to U.S. Ski Team head coach Paul Kristofic, who spoke with the Associated Press. She'll compete in Downhills and Super-G on Saturday, December 7 and Sunday, December 8, respectively.The races are lower-level FIS events. Vonn aims to use the FIS' wildcard rule to eventually return to the World Cup.
  
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• Audi FIS Ski World Cup at Killington 2024

  06-12-2024 14:55 via nyskiblog.com
  It was a glorious weekend at the 2024 Stifel Killington Cup as temperatures and Mother Nature joined forces once again providing outstanding conditions and some post-Thanksgiving sunshine jump starting yet another epic ski season. At the first event under new ownership Killington now has the distinction of being the largest independently operated ski resort in the country. Swiss and Swede racers dominated this year’s event, but it was Mikaela Shiffrin’s crash on her second run
  
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