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An Abstract, Female-Made Ski Film Worth Your Time

17-01-2025 21:07 via powder.com

The first time I met Erin Spong was at a ski test where she was sporting a bulky, bright green bandage that covered the entirety of her thumb. When I asked what had happened, she told me she'd gotten it stuck in a Pivot binding in the parking lot and almost taken half her thumb off. The very same week, I watched her ski a steep, mogul-y couloir on a carving ski with a 13 meter turn radius, and it's still one of the most impressive things I've ever seen. Our friendship really blossomed month

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Heavy Crashes and Game-Changing Skiing: Here's What Happened at the First FWT Event of 2025

17-01-2025 20:16 via powder.com

Double backflips, heavy crashes, wild lines—the first event of the 2025 Freeride World Tour (FWT) went down today, January 17, 2025, and unsurprisingly, the athletes continued to step up in Baqueira Beret, Spain. Organizers held the event at a brand new venue, La Bamba.Olympic Gold Medal mogul skier Justine Dufour-Lapointe proved, once again, that skills in the bumps translate seamlessly to big mountain terrain. She made quick work of the venue’s steep and spicy entrance, before capp

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What Is Skijoring? The Wild Winter Sport You’ve Never Heard Of

17-01-2025 17:23 via powder.com

Before people flocked to towns like Steamboat Springs, Jackson Hole, Crested Butte, and Telluride for their world-class skiing, these towns had their own rich histories as ranching and mining towns.
Although things like the Million Dollar Cowboy Bar have become more of a novelty than a real saloon, and cowboy hats are more of a tourist fashion statement than anything else, these towns still have a few pieces of genuine western culture if you know where to look. By 'genuine western culture,'

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Lindsey Vonn Reports Her "Bum Is Sore" After Crash

17-01-2025 13:47 via powder.com

As Lindsey Vonn approached the final section of a downhill training run in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy, on Thursday, January 16, she crashed, but is otherwise feeling okay despite some bruises.“I'm good," she told The Associated Press, also indicating that she still plans to race this weekend when two World Cup events—a downhill and a super g—are scheduled. “I just caught a lot of air off the second-to-last jump, and I just landed, and my ski kind of caught funny."Spea

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America's 10 Snowiest Cities Might Surprise You

17-01-2025 12:46 via powder.com

Ever wondered what the snowiest towns in the US actually are? While certain places in the west might get all the good press for snowfall, you might be surprised when it comes down to the actual numbers.
There's a lot of factors that contribute to precipitation such as elevation, nearby mountains that block weather systems, lake effect, and so on. Unfortunately, proximity to a ski mountain isn't necessarily a factor and some of the cities that see all that snow aren't near the biggest or ste

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