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• Jackson Hole's Vertical Leaderboard Will Go Away, Here's Why

  07-01-2025 23:45 via powder.com
  
  Jackson Hole Mountain Resort (JHMR), Wyoming, will remove the vertical foot leaderboard feature available in its JH Insider app.The leaderboard feature allows users to track the amount of vertical feet they skied in a day, week, month, and season at JHMR.The feature won’t persist because, according to a letter issued by JHMR’s CEO Mary Kate Buckley on January 2nd, it "was deemed to potentially promote fast skiing.”The decision follows the death of Peter Wuerslin, who was killed
  
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• Rope-Ducking Now Punishable by 30-Day Ban at Utah Ski Resort

  07-01-2025 22:39 via powder.com
  
  Not to state the obvious, but usually when it comes to ski areas, ropes and barriers are put up for a reason. Unfortunately, it seems folks like to 'forget' that more often than ski patrol would like them to. Solitude Mountain ski patrol director, Doug Catherine took to the mountain's Instagram to remind skiers that if an area is roped off, it's not just because patrol wants to keep the pow stash for themselves, it's for your safety. View this post on InstagramA post shared by Sol
  
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• Fake Website Credit Card Scams Threaten Ski Clothing Customers

  07-01-2025 21:28 via powder.com
  
  Norrøna, a Norwegian ski outerwear company, may be suffering from a bit too much popularity—online scammers, as they often do, have taken notice.In a social media post, the brand warned that fake advertising and websites have appeared online, offering deeply discounted prices on Norrøna products.These websites, Norrøna clarified, are scams.
   “Norrona.com is our only official website,” the company’s Instagram statement reads. “If you want to
  
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• Car Abandoned On Keystone, Colorado, Ski Run After GPS Issue

  07-01-2025 20:40 via powder.com
  
  A Colorado driver has brought a whole new meaning to "slopeside parking" at Keystone Resort, Colorado.The driver claimed to have been following GPS directions to Keystone employee housing on Sunday night when they ended up parked at the bottom of Schoolmarm ski run on the mountain. Keystone Resort confirmed that the car was found on snow at the Mountain House Base Area on Monday morning.Summit County Sheriff's Office reported that the driver told them they were following a GPS route when they dr
  
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• Park City COO Calls for End to "Relentless" Harassment

  07-01-2025 19:57 via powder.com
  
  "No one wins a strike," read the letter penned by Park City's Chief Operation Officer, Deirdra Walsh, in The Park Record, addressing the greater Park City community on Monday, January 6th. Park City's more than 200 person ski patrol unit has been on an unfair labor practice strike since December 27, 2024. Park City has brought in a "Patrol Support Team," comprised of patrollers from other Vail-owned resorts to aide in mountain operations during the strike.
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• Battery Powered Skis Draw Attention at Tech Trade Show

  07-01-2025 19:13 via powder.com
  
  Several weeks ago, POWDER heard about a wild piece of new snowsports technology: electric, battery-powered skis.The device—aptly named the E-SKIMO—is making the rounds at the tech trade show CES 2025, and it’s already drawing attention. Brett Turner, who goes by the online alias brett.tech and is a tech content creator, called the E-SKIMO one of his favorite first day CES finds.View the original article to see embedded media.In Turner’s video, he checks in Nicola Colombo,
  
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• Tele Dribble: A Defense of the G3 Targa Binding

  07-01-2025 18:00 via powder.com
  
  Like the many new telemark skiers who become smitten by the turn, I was in no way concerned with what gear I started on. I simply needed equipment that allowed me to genuflect while descending on snow. That was all that mattered. So the old skis I borrowed for local’s tele clinics more than a decade ago were beautifully nameless to me; their deep blue top sheet interspersed with yellow flowers shone anonymously in the spring sun, and mounted to them was a deep red, springed free-heel bindi
  
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• "Extreme Weather" Forces Closure of Alaska's Largest Ski Resort

  07-01-2025 12:25 via powder.com
  
  In river culture, its taboo to say the dreaded W word (wind) for superstition that it might conjure an upstream 'W' and make it significantly harder to paddle downstream. When I was a river guide, when the breeze would pick up we'd say 'Uncle Gusty's drunk again' instead of cursing ourselves further. Monday afternoon, January 6, Uncle Gusty got absolutely smashed on Ullr shooters up at Alyeska Resort in Alaska causing a power outage that shut the resort down.
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• In 2025, Mt. Bachelor Local Ownership Bid Maintains Momentum

  07-01-2025 12:00 via powder.com
  
  Last fall, POWDR Corp. announced plans to sell several ski areas within its portfolio, including Mt. Bachelor in Oregon, Eldora in Colorado, and SilverStar in British Columbia. Following the announcement, talk that a group of Mt. Bachelor locals were going to try and buy the mountain from POWDR quickly made its way around the ski industry. Efforts headed by Bend residents Dan Cochrane and Chris Porter quickly received an outpouring of support from the community. Several months and feet
  
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• North Carolina's First Ski Area To Construct New Chairlift

  07-01-2025 00:24 via powder.com
  
  Cataloochee—North Carolina’s first established ski area—is getting a new chairlift.Over the weekend, Cataloochee shared plans to replace its Omigosh double chairlift with a Doppelmayr quad chairlift. The lift is scheduled to begin construction in May 2025 and open in time for the beginning of the 2025-26 ski season. It’ll rise 740 vertical feet, offering access to a mix of intermediate and advanced terrain.
   Omigosh is Cataloochee’s only chairlift that reaches
  
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