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• AI Judging To Debut at X Games Aspen 2025

  21-01-2025 21:47 via powder.com
  
  Writers, coders, and white-collar professionals everywhere know the fear and angst associated with the rise of artificial intelligence as tech leaders insinuate that, in the not-so-distant future, human workers could be replaced by machines.But snowsports? That’s been a mostly untapped realm for artificial intelligence—until now.Once a matter of parody, artificial intelligence judging will make its snowsports debut in a few short days at the 2025 Winter X Games in Aspen, Colorado, Sn
  
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• It Hasn't Snowed in Weeks, but Mt. Bachelor Is Ripping—Conditions Report

  21-01-2025 20:40 via powder.com
  
  Ahhhh the January high pressure cycle- we've all been here. The beginning of the season brings storm after storm, you get your legs back enough to remember how to make a pow turn. Then the holiday crowds clear, and suddenly so does the forecast. I won't lie and deny that all those "0's" lined up in the snow forecast across the bottom of my phone screen make my tummy feel funny. There's a bit of the visceral, climate-change induced panic that winter as we know it doesn't exist anymore, and t
  
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• More Than 60 Killed in Turkey Ski Resort Fire

  21-01-2025 19:59 via powder.com
  
  At least 66 people are dead after a 12-story ski resort hotel caught fire early Tuesday morning in Turkey, according to numerous news reports.The deadly blaze also injured at least 51 people, the Associated Press reports.The hotel, called the Grand Kartal, began burning at around 3:30 a.m. local time, Reuters reports.One eyewitness, Atakan Yelkovan, who was staying on the third story of the hotel, told local news agency IHA that guests attempted to climb out of the Grand Kartal using ropes fashi
  
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• This Telemark Skier Goes Harder Than You Do

  21-01-2025 18:00 via powder.com
  
  Will Houskamp never stops grinning as he tells me about becoming a free-heel park skier. Softly and earnestly, he smiles as he speaks practically, telling what sounds like a regular skier’s journey.In reality, it has been a meteoric rise. While still a rootsy story of how a young man who just wanted to ski became a free-heeler, it’s also the tale of one of telemark’s most exciting and boundary-pushing park skiers the world over. It’s a bold claim, that what he is doing ha
  
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• The 10 Best Uncrowded Ski Resorts in the U.S.

  21-01-2025 17:55 via powder.com
  
  Let's face it—no one likes waiting in lift lines. It's cold, can be kind of boring, and eats into your ski day. Beyond that, skiing at crowded mountains can also be kind of scary. Dodging lots of people on the slopes isn't very fun no matter what skill level you ski at.
  Luckily, most regions of the U.S. have ski mountains that are a bit more off the beaten path and still have great skiing. While you might trade some nearby amenities, convenience, or vertical drop for less crowded skiing, t
  
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• Colorado and Utah Ski Resorts Favored In Latest Storm Track

  21-01-2025 17:42 via powder.com
  
  A strong ridge of high pressure has largely taken hold across the West early this week, keeping conditions mostly dry and very cold—especially in mountain valleys and basins where inversions have locked in bitterly cold air. Some areas are seeing the coldest overnight lows of the season so far.Bottom LineVery Cold This Week: Inversions and arctic air have settled into many valleys across the Intermountain West, producing subzero mornings and dangerous wind chills. Some moderation begins mi
  
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• The 7 Best Family-Owned Ski Resorts in the U.S.

  21-01-2025 17:04 via powder.com
  
  Skiing, these days, might be more corporate than ever. Two dominant, well-known conglomerates—the Alterra Mountain Company and Vail Resorts—own vast swathes of ski resort terrain across North America.
  While hardcore, jaded skiers tend to grumble about our snowsports overlords, the convenience of their respective Ikon and Epic multi-passes has proven impossible to shake. This is Alterra and Vail’s world—we’re just living in it.Well, kind of. Despite the vast number o
  
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• Alterra Is Allegedly Supporting Ski Patrol Unionization at Arapahoe Basin

  21-01-2025 17:03 via powder.com
  
  The recent strike by Park City, Utah ski patrollers has spurred conversations and movements across the ski industry, specifically within other ski patrol units.
  Several mountain's patrol units, both Vail Resorts-owned and not, publicly showed their support for the Park City Professional Ski Patrol Association (PCPSPA) throughout the strike. PCPSPA came to a contract agreement with Vail and patrollers have returned to work, but the greater conversation about how ski patrollers are compensate
  
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• Dozens Injured by Freak Ski Lift Failure in Spain

  21-01-2025 16:39 via powder.com
  
  A chairlift collapse at a ski resort in Spain sent three people to the hospital over the weekend. On January 18, around 11:30am, a mechanical malfunction on the Canal Roya chair at Astún Ski Resort caused several lift chairs to drop to the ground, tossing their passengers off the lift. Around 15 people were injured in the incident and three were taken to the hospital, according to a statement from the resort. Some local media numbers report that closer to 30 skiers were injured.Two o
  
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