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• Snow Returns to California With Active February on Tap for West

  24-01-2025 22:16 via powder.com
  
  A quick-moving round of snow is targeting Colorado and Utah with moderate accumulations Friday night into the weekend, while California’s Sierra will also pick up decent totals late Saturday into Sunday.
  Afterward, a separate system early next week may bring additional light snow to the Southwest states, while the Pacific Northwest and Northern Rockies anticipate a more notable event toward the latter half of the upcoming workweek.
  Temperatures trend cold under each disturbance, but gradua
  
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• How Do I Gamble on X Games Aspen? Your Questions Answered

  24-01-2025 21:54 via powder.com
  
  POWDER is a skiing publication, and, as you might expect, our staff isn’t deeply familiar with sports betting.So, with the arrival of gambling at the Winter X Games this week and weekend, we were presented with a tricky problem. How do a bunch of skiers explain what's up with the new sports betting program?Thankfully, Todd Ballard, the co-founder of ALT Sports Data, the company helping bring the X Games sports betting program to life, agreed to answer our (and presumably, your) burning que
  
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• Colorado Ski Area Opens "Most Challenging" Terrain for First Time This Season

  24-01-2025 21:46 via powder.com
  
  One of Summit County's favorite resorts has just opened some it's most epic terrain. Arapahoe Basin announced on January 24, 2025 that Steep Gullies 1, 2, and 4 are now open for the season. The Gullies are some of A-Basin's most iconic runs and definitely amongst the most challenging. The Gullies are a series of rocky, expert-only chutes with 35-45 degree slope angles. In other words, super freaking steep. The Gullies also require a 20-30 minute hike back to the resort's base area which mea
  
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• X Games Skiers Invent Absurd Tricks in 2025 Knuckle Huck Competitions

  24-01-2025 20:29 via powder.com
  
  X Games Aspen is underway, and despite all the buzz about new additions like gambling and AI judging, one thing, unsurprisingly, remains unchanged: Knuckle Huck is one of the most entertaining freeskiing competitions around.Both women’s and men’s fields threw down in the jam-style event last night, stacking progressive tricks that pushed the envelope just a bit further.Here’s a look at the results and highlights.X Games Women’s Knuckle Huck ResultsGOLD: Rell HardwoodFor R
  
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• For climate-friendly ski touring, try Scotland | Letter

  24-01-2025 18:41
  Scottish hills and mountains are fun to ski up and down – you just have to seize the snow when it comes, says Mike CawthorneWhile Sam Haddad (No lifts? No problem: a low-impact ski touring trip to the Italian Alps, 13 January) is absolutely right to flag up ski touring as more environmentally friendly than its downhill cousin, I would add that it’s not always necessary to travel abroad to seek its pleasures. During the recent spell of Arctic weather, members of our backcountry snowsp
  
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• Palisades Tahoe Graciously Donates $250k+ to Wildfire Relief

  24-01-2025 18:40 via powder.com
  
  Palisades Tahoe, California, and its parent company—Alterra Mountain Co.—have donated $269,191 to southern California fire relief efforts with funds raised during last weekend's Ski For a Cause event.
   On January 18th and January 19th, 2025, Palisades Tahoe offered $99 discount lift tickets to Ikon Base Pass and Session Pass holders. These dates, which occurred during the long MLK Jr. weekend, were blackout dates across both pass types.
   The Ski For a Cause event allowed sk
  
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• Where to Eat, Shop and Stay in the Austrian Alps

  24-01-2025 18:05 via nytimes.com
  
  Insiders share their favorite après-ski spots, springtime hikes and typically Tyrolean souvenirs.
  
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• The 8 Best Places to Ski in February

  24-01-2025 16:39 via powder.com
  
  February is a great time to plan a ski vacation. It's before the spring break crowds hit most of North America, but can liven up certain spots in Europe. It's also late enough in the season that most places have good snowpack and relatively consistent snowfall without too much sun to melt snow quickly.As the northern hemisphere inches towards the spring equinox in March, resorts with higher elevation and more north-facing terrain tend to hold snow a bit better.Here are a few places to consider f
  
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• New Gondola Approved at Closed California Ski Resort

  24-01-2025 14:22 via powder.com
  
  Rumors around a Lake Tahoe ski resort's future have stirred the pot over the last few months. Homewood Mountain Resort has been a Tahoe staple since 1962. Like any ski mountain that's been around since the 60's, the resort has seen wear and tear that eventually demands investments and updated infrastructure. In 2011, Homewood Mountain Resort released a Master Plan to update and expand the resort's essential structures, base areas, and operations. Nine years after the Plan was created,
  
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• New Chairlift Opens at Tennessee's Only Ski Area

  24-01-2025 13:12 via powder.com
  
  At Tennessee's only ski area, Ober Mountain, a brand new Doppelmayr quad chairlift has opened to the public.The new chair, called the Ober Challenge, serves the ski area’s upper mountain terrain, depositing guests at 3,208 feet.“Come experience a smoother, faster, safer, and more enjoyable way to conquer the slopes,” the ski area wrote in a social media post celebrating the new chair. Traditionally, when a new Doppelmayr lift opens, a mountain's General Manager o
  
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• Denver's Free Ski and Snowboard Park Opens This Weekend

  24-01-2025 12:36 via powder.com
  
  Looking to make some turns and hit some rails without braving the I-70 traffic? We’ve got great news for you.Aided by a recent cold snap, the Ruby Hill Rail Yard, a free skiing and snowboarding terrain park in Denver, Colorado, opens this weekend according to local media reports.
   Started in 2007, the free terrain park will welcome the first skiers and riders of the season on Sunday, January 26th. Denver Parks and Recreation (DPR) and the nearby Winter Park Resort work as partners to
  
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