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• Sound The Alarms: California Braces for 100 Inches of Snow

  30-01-2025 21:36 via powder.com
  
  An extended period of unsettled weather for California begins Friday, February 1, 2025, bringing increasingly wet and stormy conditions through next week.
  Expect two primary rounds of snowfall—one over the weekend, featuring higher snow levels and wet, dense snow, and another colder system starting around Monday night that should bring more widespread coverage of meaningful accumulations to mid and upper elevations. Between these two systems, resorts will end up with fairly staggering tota
  
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• Avalanches Kill Five Skiers in French Alps

  30-01-2025 21:14 via powder.com
  
  Two separate avalanches killed five skiers across the French Alps on Wednesday, according to several news reports.Four of the deceased — all Norwegians — were caught in an avalanche at Val-Cenis. Three of them were pronounced dead at the scene, while one, a woman, was transported to a hospital in Grenoble. There, she died of cardiorespiratory arrest and severe hypothermia, an official in the Savoie prefect’s department told The Guardian.Three other members of the group were cau
  
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• The Ski Patrol Strike Movement: What You Need To Know

  30-01-2025 19:58 via powder.com
  
  Unionized ski patrol units have earned themselves quite the spotlight this ski season.
  While Park City Professional Ski Patrol Association (PCPSPA) made headlines in 2021 as they negotiated for their last round of contracts with Vail Resorts, their strike against Vail over the same issues took the industry by storm over the holidays in 2024.
  PCPSPA’s public dispute with the resort’s parent company over things like fair wages and benefits ultimately led to a strike. PCPSPA and Vail re
  
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• TikTok Tourists Overrun Italian Ski Resort

  30-01-2025 19:55 via powder.com
  
  On Sunday, a crowd of more than 10,000 tourists overwhelmed the Italian ski resort of Roccaraso after being drawn by tour bus tickets and TikTok influencer Rita De Crescenzo, CNN and The Guardian reports.Crescenzo shared a live video and images from Roccaraso, inspiring tour bus operators to offer cheap trips — which cost between €20 and €30 — from Naples and the Campania region to the mountains. Some of the tour companies quoted Crescenzo in their deals.Pandemonium ensued.
  
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• Faction Drops Limited-Run Sam Anthamatten Dancer 3 Skis

  30-01-2025 18:45 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.Your favorite skier's favorite ski mountaineer, Sam Anthamatten, teamed up with this longtime sponsor Faction Skis to drop a limited-edition run of his signature big-mountain freeride ski. The Faction Dancer 3 Sam Anthamatten limited-edition ski—with just 150 pairs available worldwide—is a showcase of Sam’s mastery of human-powered big mountain rid
  
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• Skiing Makes Sense When You Break on Through to the Other Side

  30-01-2025 18:44 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.Break on Through to the Other SideThe path less traveled is often the place to be, especially in skiing. Except, of course, the reason such paths are obscure is because they can be a death-defying, sweaty, traumatizing affair. Skiers know these necessary evils as traverses: the quiet little ski track that breaks off a
  
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• Becoming an "Old Geezer" Should be Every Skier's Goal

  30-01-2025 18:24 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.Geezer QuestAt the top of High Rustler on one of the best pow days of the year, it’s dumping furiously, true bottomless. These are the conditions that have always made this the perfect run for me. Deep enough to hold you back while you let gravity take you. As I’ve gotten older, I’ve slowed it down,
  
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• Testing The New OnX Backcountry Ski App: Here's What I Found

  30-01-2025 17:00 via powder.com
  
  Recently, I heard rumors that OnX Backcountry was adding an ATES overlay to its digital mapping program. For many people, that sentence probably leaves them scratching their heads, but for me–a longtime ski touring and mapping nerd, it was an exciting revelation. This January, that rumor came true. OnX recently rolled out its new avalanche awareness tools in their app, and my home range–Utah’s Wasatch Mountains–was slated to be one of the trial regions for the new feature
  
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• A Legendary Snowboarder's Legacy Lives on at Mt. Baker

  30-01-2025 14:51 via powder.com
  
  Mt. Baker Ski Area is often characterized by things like its epic annual snowfall (641 inches a year!), complex terrain, and stunning views, all of which make it a worthy stop or destination on its own. Although pieces of the mountain’s history are widely known, Mt. Baker is far less often known for its roots in the history of snowsports.
  Specifically—bear with me POWDER readers—snowboarding.
  Buckle up, folks and put on your reading glasses— we’re hitting the histor
  
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• Record Breaking Year Reported by Ski Gear Resellers

  30-01-2025 13:24 via powder.com
  
  Have you grown tired of shelling out on brand-new ski gear? It would appear that you’re not alone.Geartrade, an outdoor gear resale platform, announced in a recent press release that it enjoyed a record-breaking 2024, with topline sales of its core business growing 80% alongside moving 50,000 pounds of gear and apparel.According to Geartrade’s president, Aaron Provine, the company had its strongest holiday season ever.“Five years ago, the platform was definitely on a different
  
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• The Calm Before the Storm: California's Largest Ski Resort Prepares for 6 Feet of Snow

  30-01-2025 12:16 via powder.com
  
  If you know a skier that lives in the Lake Tahoe region, you've most likely heard about January's annoyingly-long high pressure system.
  The dry spell has lasted for nearly the entire month, but ski resorts on Tahoe's West Shore did pick up a measly inch or two from a small storm that hit last weekend. January wasn't entirely dry, but it might as well have been.Other than the brief wintry respite a few days ago, it's been Bill Murray's Groundhog Day at Palisades Tahoe. Temperatures have rema
  
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