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• How Utah Is Staying at the Forefront of Avalanche Mitigation

  10-12-2024 23:11 via powder.com
  
  Utah is known for its snow. The storms that pass through the state deposit heaps of powder at famed ski resorts like Alta and Snowbird, providing bottomless turns. Alta, during an average season, sees 548 inches of snow, but this natural bounty comes at a cost. When the snow piles up, ski resorts and the Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT) are forced to tangle with a looming mountainside threat: avalanches.This new video from Ski Utah tells the story of the Beehive State's continued ef
  
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• Skiers With Cult-Like Following Release New Film for Free on YouTube

  10-12-2024 23:04 via powder.com
  
  Consisting of skiers Alex Hall and Hunter Hess—alongside filmmaker Owen Dahlberg—MAGMA first appeared with a self-titled release in 2019.
  Hall and Hess, both elite freeskiing competitors, created the film without any sponsors or funding. Dahlberg shot the video. It was, as they wrote in MAGMA’s description, “made for the love.”Well, the MAGMA boys are back, and with their latest flick, Ash, they’ve delivered another succinct hit of ski movie magic. Check out t
  
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• Canadian Ski Hill Closes For Good

  10-12-2024 21:50 via powder.com
  
  The effects of climate change on winter have claimed another victim, in this case, a community ski hill in Canada.
  A non-profit ski hill in the North Saskatchewan Valley of Alberta has announced it’s closing its doors for good via an update from the hill’s Facebook page.
  Located just northeast of Drayton Valley, The Drayton Valley Brazeau Snow Club has been in operation since 1965. The family-oriented resort was a staple of the community with a T-bar, two rope tows, a handle tow, and
  
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• Fake 'Search and Rescue' Jacket Being Sold at DICK'S Sporting Goods

  10-12-2024 21:43 via powder.com
  
  As I was walking through a DICK'S Sporting Goods in Wilmington, Delaware in late-November of 2024, a bright orange jacket stopped me in my tracks.
  No, it wasn't the loud color that caused concern, but rather, the 'Rocky Mountain Search & Rescue Team' and 'Mountain Rescue' patches sewn into the upper sleeves. Including these misleading patches was most likely done to entice city-dwellers who want to feel like they live in the mountains, but the consequences of selling such merchandise were cl
  
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• Dangerous 'Search and Rescue' Jacket Being Sold at DICK'S Sporting Goods

  10-12-2024 21:43 via powder.com
  
  As I was walking through a DICK'S Sporting Goods in Wilmington, Delaware in late-November of 2024, a bright orange jacket stopped me in my tracks.
  No, it wasn't the loud color that caused concern, but rather, the 'Rocky Mountain Search & Rescue Team' and 'Mountain Rescue' patches sewn into the upper sleeves. Including these misleading patches was most likely done to entice city-dwellers who want to feel like they live in the mountains, but the consequences of selling such merchandise were cl
  
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• Vail Resorts Reveals $250mm in Capital Investments

  10-12-2024 19:43 via powder.com
  
  Another season, another round of investments from ski resort titan Vail Resorts.According to Vail's Fiscal 2025 First Quarter Earnings Call news release, the Company plans to invest between $249 million and $254 million in its ski resort properties worldwide in 2025. Vail Resorts called two projects—at Park City Mountain Resort, Utah, and Vail Mountain, Colorado—transformational.Park City’s Canyons Village is set to undergo a significant overhaul next year. As previously announ
  
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• 7 of the Best Female Skiers of All Time

  10-12-2024 19:26 via powder.com
  
  The ‘best’ of anything is not always an objective statement, and it certainly isn’t in this case. In most sports, there’s usually room for debate on just what we consider the ‘best,’ but in a category as broad as simply ‘skiing,’ the possibilities are endless.
  So, who are the best female skiers of all time? That’s a big question, and one I come at sheepishly as I wish I could include so, so many more incredible female skiers on this list. But
  
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• The Tele Mommies Don't Just Want to Have Fun

  10-12-2024 18:00 via powder.com
  
  At first glance the video was a light-hearted affair, seemingly just a group of women telemark skiers taking part in the “of course” Instagram trend of late 2023. Self-effacingly embracing their typecast identity, they sipped Twisted Teas and gabbed at every slow sign.We’re the Tele Mommies, of course we’re going to forget to put our boots in ski mode, the reel teased.View this post on InstagramA post shared by Tele Mommies (@tele_mommies)
  But just below the surface, perm
  
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• Two Storms to Dump 20+ Inches on California and Pacific Northwest

  10-12-2024 17:07 via powder.com
  
  Ample moisture is headed to California beginning Thursday, December 12, 2024 with storm #1, while storm #2 brings higher moisture totals on Saturday with a warming trend.
  The bulk of the moisture is aimed at the Sierra and initially extends north into the Pacific Northwest and western BC. Some decent totals might also ensue in western Idaho and perhaps the Tetons through the weekend. California & Nevada expected snow totals through Sunday, December 15, 2024 above 7,000 feet:Sugar Bowl,
  
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• 6 Mountains Where You Can Ski for $100 or Less

  10-12-2024 11:01 via nytimes.com
  
  The average price of a single-day lift ticket at a destination ski resort in the U.S. is $250, but there are plenty of smaller areas where getting on the slopes is much cheaper.
  
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