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• Seattle's Summit at Snoqualmie Opens for Season

  17-12-2024 22:12 via powder.com
  
  It might've been a bit of a late start, but the ski season is officially here at Seattle's home mountain.The Summit at Snoqualmie opened for skiing and riding today, December 17, 2024, welcoming season and Ikon passholders.
   As is tradition, the ski area kicked things off in its Summit West area. Julies, Pacific Crest, Little Thunder, and the Upper Carpet are ferrying skiers and snowboarders upwards. Wildside, which services intermediate and advanced terrain on the skier's right side of Sum
  
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• Benchetler, Leskinen Comment on Upcoming Natural Selection Ski Competition

  17-12-2024 21:18 via powder.com
  
  Earlier this year, Natural Selection, the backcountry snowboard competition pioneered by Travis Rice, announced it would be expanding to include mountain bike, ski, and surf divisions of the competition.Previously, the Natural Selection Tour (NST) has featured a series of stops where competitors went head-to-head in a bracket-style system. While locations changed from year to year, each event was held in some form of backcountry terrain with manmade 'terrain enhancements' added to some locations
  
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• How To Watch Lindsey Vonn's Return to Ski Racing

  17-12-2024 20:48 via powder.com
  
  It’s official.
  After announcing her return to competitive racing, Lindsey Vonn will appear in her first major race since 2019 in St. Moritz, Switzerland, this weekend.
  To earn enough points to return to the World Cup, Vonn competed in several lower level races at the FIS Fall Festival at Copper Mountain, Colorado, earlier this month, where she claimed several solid top 30 finishes.Vonn also fore-ran the Birds of Prey course at Beaver Creek, Colorado, ahead of the women’s downhill eve
  
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• $13.5mm Staff Housing Project Completed at Canadian Resort

  17-12-2024 19:44 via powder.com
  
  Just as the ski season really kicks off, Big White Ski Resort, located in Kelowna, BC, has announced the completion of it's multimillion dollar staff housing project. The $13.5 million project was completed ahead of schedule and on-budget according to a press release on December 16. The project was a continuation of the Black Forest staff housing initiative, which started during the 2018/19 season in order to eliminate availability constraints for employee housing. Construction on
  
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• Colorado Town Drowns World Record for 'Longest Shot Ski'

  17-12-2024 19:20 via powder.com
  
  Ski towns, if anything, know how to party.On December 13, 2024, Breckenridge Distillery, located in Breckenridge, Colorado, broke the record for the world's longest shot ski for the 12th time.
  The shots totaled 2,477 feet in length. It required 503 skis and had 1,401 participants. Drinkers lined up and down Main Street before taking a history-making collective shot. Participants chose one of two poison types: Breckenridge Broncos Bourbon or Breckenridge Candy Cane Vodka. The coordination in
  
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• Review: Ortovox Diract Voice Avalanche Beacon

  17-12-2024 15:00 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.The basic design of avalanche beacons hasn’t changed much in recent years, that is, until Ortovox introduced voice navigation with the Diract Voice beacon in 2023. The beacon remains largely unchanged for '24/'25, save for a software update that improves its processing speed and performance. The idea behind the voice guidance is not just a marketing ploy. Simply pu
  
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• How This Telemark Skier Made His Own Bindings

  17-12-2024 14:57 via powder.com
  
  While manufacturers have undoubtedly been instrumental to free-heel innovation, the telemark DIY scene plays an outsized role in the progression of the sport’s gear, often influencing the direction of those makers. Many a telemark skier of the 80s created homemade plastic cuffs to add power to their leather boots on descent. And only after many a five-gallon bucket met its demise at the hands of these free-heel tinkerers did telemark producers see the opportunity to make their own plastic-
  
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• Park City Ski Patrol Votes to Authorize Strike

  17-12-2024 13:24 via powder.com
  
  In the latest update from the ongoing contract negotiations between the Park City Professional Ski Patrol Association (PCPSPA) and Vail Resorts, the PCPSPA has voted unanimously to authorize a strike.The vote was conducted over the weekend with the unit in 100% agreement to authorize the strike. The PCPSPA has been in negotiations with Vail since May about the terms of their contract, including things like wages, holiday pay, and benefits. There have been 23 negotiation sessions thus-far with tw
  
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• Michigan Ski Area Experiences Bizarre Avalanche

  17-12-2024 12:06 via powder.com
  
  Avalanches are most commonly associated with the steep faces and high snowfall totals found in the West. Generally, large amounts of natural snow and slopes with a gradient higher than 30 degrees are the two key ingredients required to create an avalanche.But that doesn’t mean avalanches don’t happen elsewhere—and they don’t always require the natural stuff.Big Powderhorn Mountain Resort, Michigan—a small, 235-acre ski area—recently reported that one of its sn
  
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• Visiting Yellowstone in Winter: 5 Things to Do

  17-12-2024 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Forget the summer crowds, exploring wide-open landscapes by ski, snowmobile or snowshoe, and revel in a solitude that few park visitors ever get to experience.
  
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