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• Federal Grant Reopens Shuttered Colorado Ski Area

  12-12-2024 21:55 via powder.com
  
  After a 24 year hiatus, southern Colorado's Cuchara Mountain Park will reopen on December 14, 2024. A grant of $250,000 was awarded to Panadero Ski Corporation, the non-profit behind the mountain, in order to aid with the operational costs associated with reopening. Located on Baker Mountain, the hill has been closed to the public since 2000. Colorado Governor Jared Polis and the Colorado Outdoor Recreation Industry Office, of the Colorado Office of Economic Development and Intern
  
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• Review: Peak Performance Vertical Gore-Tex ePE Jacket and Pants

  12-12-2024 19:26 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.If you’ve skied in Europe, or watched the Freeride World Tour in recent years, you might have noticed an unfamiliar (to North Americans) brand being worn by a handful of the world’s best freeride skiers. In a land where most skiers prefer tighter fits, brighter colors, and an all-around much more “Euro” vibe, Peak Performance has stood out as the
  
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• 35 Snow Quotes and Skiing Captions for Your Instagram Pics

  12-12-2024 18:58 via powder.com
  
  Hate it or love it—ski trips are often memorialized on the 'Gram. I mean, someone has to show off how epic those turns were last week, right? Okay, maybe not. But I’m human. Presumably, you are, too. Getting some hits of dopamine because you shared a cool post about your skiing endeavors online feels good. We can all appreciate a healthy amount of digital indulgence.When cataloging these moments, though, you don’t want to arrive unequipped. You've got the photos and videos cove
  
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• Snowboarder Falls From Chairlift in Colorado

  12-12-2024 18:39 via powder.com
  
  On Wednesday December 11, 2024, a snowboarder was airlifted to St. Anthony Hospital in Lakewood, Colorado after falling from a chairlift at Keystone Resort, according to Colorado Pubic Radio. Keystone Ski Patrol and Summit County Sheriff's Department both responded to the accident. The snowboarder is a 32-year-old male who reportedly leaned down to adjust his bindings. He fell from Ruby Express lift, a six-person, high-speed detachable chair lift. The man's identity and extent of his injuri
  
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• La Niña Has Yet To Emerge and Odds Are Decreasing

  12-12-2024 18:11 via powder.com
  
  The talk of Winter '24/'25, amongst skiers anyways, has been the impending La Niña weather phenomenon.
  The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) first predicted that La Niña would occur earlier this calendar year, but it has yet to happen.NOAA updated their monthly El Niño/Southern Oscillation Diagnostic Discussion today, December 12, 2024. The agency clarified that near-average sea surface temperatures (SSTs) were observed across the central and eastern equ
  
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• ATK Launches All-Metal Hybrid Freeride Binding

  12-12-2024 18:05 via powder.com
  
  Freeride skiing’s holy grail has long been a binding that can ski downhill as aggressively as a traditional alpine binding, while giving users the ability to tour uphill with the efficiency of a pin binding. Up until now, there have been three options for skiers, each with their own pros and cons (we’re talking about the Salomon/Atomic SHIFT, the Marker Duke PT, and the CAST Freetour). In the greater binding landscape, these types of bindings are called “hybrid” bindings,
  
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• Stellar Equipment Says No To Fast Fashion Trends in Ski Outerwear

  12-12-2024 17:00 via powder.com
  
  The ski industry is nothing if not consistent. For years, it has followed the same general patterns: fall drops, new patterns, incremental design and style tweaks packaged as “the next big deal.” Marketing and trends dictate how we need to spend our money, prompting us to buy the next big thing. So often it seems like much of what we launch is more or less the same product, just repackaged and rebranded. While this can work, and over time we do reap the benefits of incremental change
  
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• Free Avalanche Forecast App Adds Seven New Regions

  12-12-2024 13:49 via powder.com
  
  Thanks to the efforts of the Northwest Avalanche Center (NWAC), keeping tabs on the latest avalanche forecasts is becoming easier and easier.Avy, an avalanche safety app developed by NWAC, has added seven additional forecast agencies throughout the U.S. Users can now choose from nine agencies, including the Bridger-Teton, Bridgeport, Crested Butte, Flathead, Mount Shasta, Mount Washington, Northwest, and Sierra avalanche centers.The app provides wintertime backcountry travelers with a slate of u
  
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• Electric Skis With Treads Are Here, Is This Skiing’s E-Bike?

  12-12-2024 13:09 via powder.com
  
  Remember that J Skis April Fools joke? The one where they said they’d made self-powered skis in collaboration with Tesla? It was a good gag.
   E-Outdoor, a Swiss company, however, isn’t fooling around. Their new product, the aptly named E-Skimo, is actually a pair of electricity-assisted skis.It works with a powertrain, a rubber tread system that runs under the ski, and a lightweight battery pack, giving backcountry skiers a boost as they schlep uphill. The relevant gizmos are at
  
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• Park City Ski Patrol Continues Fair Wage Fight, "People Are Fed Up"

  12-12-2024 12:02 via powder.com
  
  As the 2024/25 ski season chugs along, the entirety of Park City Mountain Resort’s ski patrol is working without a contract.
  Their last contract expired in May of 2024, and since then, the Park City Professional Ski Patrol Association (PCPSPA), and an elected negotiating committee within the PCPSPA, have been negotiating a working contract for the more than 200 people who work as Ski Patrol and Mountain Safety at the resort. In the negotiations, Vail Resorts is represented by the Vice Pres
  
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• A Swiss Ski Chalet That Calls to Mind a Spy Movie

  12-12-2024 11:04 via nytimes.com
  
  Plus: a Muji designer’s museum show, deodorant inspired by “The Iliad” and more recommendations from T Magazine.
  
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