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• “Did Private Equity Ruin Skiing?” Asks Finance Commentator

  09-01-2025 22:22 via powder.com
  
  After nearly two weeks of operational difficulties and widespread media attention, the Park City Mountain, Utah, ski patrol strike has ended. Commentary on the significant event, though, may just be getting started. 
   “Imagine paying $354 for a single day lift ticket only to spend nearly an hour in a lift line, navigating overcrowded trails, and discovering that most of the mountain is closed.”So begins a recent video from finance content creator and J.P. Morgan employee&nb
  
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• Get Married for Free at This Canadian Ski Resort on Valentine's Day

  09-01-2025 20:52 via powder.com
  
  Love is in the air at Revelstoke Mountain Resort! At least it will be on Valentine's Day, but I guess that's always true during the holiday. Anyway, if you really feel that love and a) want to get married at a ski resort, and b) don't want to pay an arm and a leg for your wedding, you can get married at the top of Revelstoke Mountain Resort in British Columbia for FREE. That's right, on Valentine's Day (February 14, just in case you forgot), Revelstoke will be hosting free weddings at
  
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• Top 6 Ski Fashion Trends in 2025

  09-01-2025 20:22 via powder.com
  
  Skiing’s funny. We all fancy ourselves to be tough outdoors people, yet within our shared sport, there’s an undeniable fascination with something that, at least stereotypically, isn’t considered hardcore: fashion.This obsession is everywhere, from obvious places like the slopes of Aspen, Colorado, to more surprising locales—we’re thinking of the skiers at expert-oriented ski areas decked out in perfectly fitting Gore-Tex. Yes, it’s technical and designed to we
  
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• "Skiing Is Useless," New Film Explores Pro Skier's Unique Outlook

  09-01-2025 20:14 via powder.com
  
  The Faction Collective has just released the second in a series of short films profiling their athletes, and the latest to take the spotlight is Freeride World Tour vet Elisabeth Gerrtizen. The film's opening interview with fellow Faction athlete and FWT competitor Andrew Pollard does well in setting the stage for Gerrtizen. Pollard describes his first meeting with Gerritzen at a party in Canada, where she lost her shoe in the middle of a mosh pit as the band played a Rage Against the Machi
  
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• Alabama’s Only Ski Area Set To Open After Season Closure

  09-01-2025 19:18 via powder.com
  
  Alabama’s only ski area, Cloudmont, is planning to open tomorrow night, per a recent social media update from Fans of Cloudmont Ski Resort.“Volunteers, past employees, and the family have rallied together in the last week to dust the rust off the pipes and take advantage of this year’s La Nina to open for some family fun,” the post reads.According to the post, Cloudmont will open Friday evening at 6 p.m. local time and remain open until 10 p.m. Day skiing starts Saturday
  
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• Strike Ends With Park City Patrollers Claiming Victory

  09-01-2025 18:50 via powder.com
  
  Well into the evening of January 8, 2025, Park City Professional Ski Patrol Association and Vail Resorts ratified a contract for the patrol unit after ten months of ongoing negotiation. The news of the contract between the two parties becoming official comes just 24-hours after PCPSPA and Vail released a join statement saying that they'd reached a tentative agreement and that a vote would take place the following day. Over the last ten months, Park City patrollers have negotiated with
  
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• Park City Strike Ends With Increase in Wages for Ski Patrollers

  09-01-2025 17:52 via nytimes.com
  
  The nearly two-week strike hobbled the largest U.S. ski resort during a busy holiday period and sparked online fury about deepening economic inequality in rural mountain areas.
  
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• Mikaela Shiffrin Finally Back on Snow After Killington Injury

  09-01-2025 17:17 via powder.com
  
  On the cusp of her 100th World Cup win, Mikaela Shiffrin crashed in Killington, Vermont, tumbling through two gates before coming to rest at the edge of the race course. Shiffrin was seriously injured—suffering what she called a “stab wound” in her abdomen—and has spent the entire month of December recovering, not ski racing.“Gonna be a minute…like a few weeks minimum…to be able to take on much of any force,” she wrote on X after the crash. &ldqu
  
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• Four to Six Feet of Snow Possible on Alaska’s Peaks—the Current State of the Snowpack

  09-01-2025 12:00 via powder.com
  
  In Alaska, fifty to 75 inches of snow is possible above 1700 feet in some mountain ranges, especially near Thompson Pass, through next Tuesday, January 14th. Snow levels will lower in the latter period of the moisture plume (this weekend) and early next week. Colder low-density snow, albeit lighter intensity, is likely early next week. Statewide, the snowpack is a bit odd this winter.Locals are reminiscing about the poor winter of 2014-2015 when Anchorage recorded only 25 inches (75 inches
  
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