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• One The Year's Best Big Mountain Ski Films Just Dropped for Free

  28-01-2025 22:22 via powder.com
  
  Times have changed, and we're not necessarily complaining.Watching feature length ski films will always be better in a theater surrounded by friends, family, strangers, and fellow weirdos, but the modern skier years for high-quality films and content at their fingertips. Enter Tristan 'Teton' Brown.Resident and frequent skier of, you guessed it, The Teton Range of Wyoming, Brown is a self-described 'Big Mountain 2 Planker' and 'Advocate of the Send', at least that's what his Insta
  
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• One of The Year's Best Big Mountain Ski Films Just Dropped for Free

  28-01-2025 22:22 via powder.com
  
  Times have changed, and we're not necessarily complaining.Watching feature length ski films will always be better in a theater surrounded by friends, family, strangers, and fellow weirdos, but the modern skier years for high-quality films and content at their fingertips. Enter Tristan 'Teton' Brown.Resident and frequent skier of, you guessed it, The Teton Range of Wyoming, Brown is a self-described 'Big Mountain 2 Planker' and 'Advocate of the Send', at least that's what his Insta
  
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• Get Hitched at Colorado Ski Area's Romantic Valentine's Day Tradition

  28-01-2025 20:14 via powder.com
  
  Loveland Ski Area, Colorado is living up to its name! Couples who love skiing and each other (or not, I don't make the rules), can get hitched at Loveland Ski Area this Valentine's Day.For the 34th year running, Loveland Ski Area will host a mass wedding on Valentine's Day. Couples can get married or renew their vows at noon sharp on February 14th in a 30 minute ceremony at the top of the Forest Meadow ski run.In order to participate, couples must sign in at the Lower Ridge Room the morning of,
  
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• The Top 5 Moments From X Games Aspen 2025

  28-01-2025 19:54 via powder.com
  
  The wild X Games Aspen 2025 whirlwind has come and gone. While the on-snow action was, as usual, incredible this year, the event, as a whole, felt a bit different.
  Sports betting was available for the first time in the circuit’s history, and artificial intelligence was tested as an assistant judge during a snowboarding event; in the not-so-distant future, the debut of the potentially game-changing X Games League looms.Amidst the hoopla, our favorite skiers continued to throw down. These we
  
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• We Skied The World Together: The Secret to Good Times is Simple

  28-01-2025 19:27 via powder.com
  
  This article appears in the 2025 Photo Annual print issue of POWDER Magazine. The magazine is still available on newsstands near you, and can be shipped directly to your front door.The #GoodTimesCrewWe celebrated Ben’s mid-February birthday somewhere in Austria. We’d also done so in Italy, Norway and other places. It helped us remember where we’d been. When your original plan starts in one country before suddenly detouring to another—or several—it’s surprising
  
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• Alarming Avalanche Snaps Snowboard in Colorado

  28-01-2025 18:57 via powder.com
  
  Colorado's notoriously unstable snowpack continues its reign of terror on Berthoud Pass. In the last three weeks, the backcountry run, Teacup Bowl, has avalanched two separate times. The run is on a southeast facing slope that has a maximum slope angle of 40 degrees and is directly above Highway 40. A skier remotely triggered an avalanche in Teacup Bowl on January 2, 2025. The skier was able to outrun the slide and no one was buried or injured. On January 25, a second avalanche was tri
  
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• Times Have Changed but Sleeper Powder Days Keep Me Smiling

  28-01-2025 18:36 via powder.com
  
  This article appears in the 2025 Photo Annual print issue of POWDER Magazine. The magazine is still available on newsstands near you, and can be shipped directly to your front door.The Storm You Didn't See ComingYou can have your two-foot powder days, along with all the red-snake congestion and powder panic that goes along with them. I’ll take a three-inch day with just enough wind to blow everything around. When I look back at recent winters, it’s the mega storms that shut down lift
  
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• Is 22 Designs' Bandit Binding the Future Of Resort Telemark Skiing?

  28-01-2025 17:00 via powder.com
  
  Powder aims to feature only the best products and services.If you buy something via one of our links, we may earn a commission.While the eponymous New Telemark Norm is actually not so new, there is something fresh happening on the platform. A muted respect for the turn has replaced the ire the skiing masses long threw toward free-heelers, while a new, rising vibe seems to have attracted more young people to the technique. And, along with Scarpa’s new boot line in-the-making–and even
  
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• La Niña Returns With 12-20 Inches of Snow in the Forecast

  28-01-2025 16:56 via powder.com
  
  High pressure has dominated the west for the past few weeks, with occasional moderate snow landing in the Wasatch last weekend.
  Some decent totals were reported in the southern California mountains on Tuesday (10 plus inches at Mt. Baldy Ski Area). The big news for powder lovers is a return to a more normal La Niña pattern from Canada to the PNW this Friday. Some areas might exceed 12-20 inches by Saturday, February 1, 2025. The northern Rockies and areas of Idaho could nab 12-20 inc
  
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• Vail Resorts Shareholder Calls for Firing of CEO

  28-01-2025 16:43 via powder.com
  
  Late Apex Partners (LAP), an investment firm with a stake in Vail Resorts, issued a letter on January 27, 2025 calling for the resignation of the company's CEO, Kirsten Lynch.The letter, addressed to Vail Resorts’ board of directors, called the company’s performance in the last five years “unacceptable.” LAP claimed Vail Resorts’ capital allocation was “incoherent,” and that the company had “mismanaged” its balance sheet.LAP also ad
  
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• Dreamy, 8,202' French Mountain Will Host Next Freeride World Tour Event

  28-01-2025 12:23 via powder.com
  
  The Freeride World Tour’s (FWT) return to France now has a confirmed competition date—and a confirmed competition venue.
   The guys and gals will face off in their respective disciplines on the Lac Noir face in the Les 3 Vallées area this Wednesday, January 27, at 8:15 CET (2:15 AM EST).The venue, billed as a “freeride playground” by the FWT, stands tall with a summit elevation of 8,202 feet. Competitors will tackle a roughly 1,600-foot vertical descent, schuss
  
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• Tecnica's New Mach1 LV 130 Boot Is A Dream For Skiers With Narrow Feet

  28-01-2025 02:00 via powder.com
  
  Tecnica's Mach1 LV 130 has been a longtime favorite of advanced to expert skiers looking for high level performance all over the mountain in diverse conditions from groomers to ice to off piste and sidecountry powder. With a low volume 98mm last and a stiff 130 flex the Mach1 gets its roots from World Cup style plug boots, but has been tweaked to provide comfort in everyday use for a wider range of conditions and terrain.The Mach1 has been my boot of choice for the last seven years or so, and ha
  
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