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• Busta Rhymes To Headline New Ski Resort Music Festival

  03-02-2025 21:51 via powder.com
  
  From baggy outerwear to edits featuring The Notorious B.I.G., freeskiing has had a longtime fascination with rap music.This spring, those disparate worlds will collide again in Andermatt, Switzerland, during the new High Peak Festival, which, according to a recent press release, is being headlined by rapper Busta Rhymes.Held on April 11 and April 12 in the Bätz Parking Lot, the music festival also features an act from another pop star, Timbaland. Rapper and TV personality Xzibit, of Pimp My
  
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• Fan Favorite Withdraws from Jackson Hole's Kings & Queens of Corbet's Couloir

  03-02-2025 21:45 via powder.com
  
  Karl Fostvedt, aka Crazy Karl, announced via Instagram that he is withdrawing from the 2025 Kings and Queens of Corbet's Couloir competition, slated to take place at Jackson Hole Mountain Resort next week. Based in nearby Idaho, Fostvedt has been a staple of the Kings & Queens competition for the last several years. The competition, which entails competitors throwing tricks into the famous couloir before hitting a man-made park jump at the bottom, taps into many of Fostvedt's stren
  
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• Parkin Costain Earns Wildcard Spot at FWT Kicking Horse

  03-02-2025 20:33 via powder.com
  
  As the Kicking Horse, British Columbia, stop of the Freeride World Tour (FWT) looms, news broke that should make the ears of ski movie fans everywhere perk up.Parkin Costain has joined the upcoming event as a wildcard. The former junior freeride competitor turned Teton Gravity Research ski film star is known for his aggressive and entertaining skiing. He’ll face off against an already stacked male roster that includes newcomers and veterans.Parkin Costain's event wildcard announcement for
  
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• Ski Lift Chair Plummets to Ground in New Hampshire

  03-02-2025 19:52 via powder.com
  
  A chair detached from a chairlift and fell to the ground at Attitash Mountain Resort, New Hampshire over the weekend. Emergency personnel were called to the mountain around 12:05pm on Sunday, February 2 to respond to the accident.
  The chair's passenger was an adult man who witnesses said was conscious and walking following a fall of about twenty feet with the chair. He was assessed by ski patrol before being transported to a local hospital and treated for non-life threatening injuries.
  
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• The Art of "Big Wall" Skiing in Patagonia

  03-02-2025 19:40 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.PeripherySleep didn’t come easily on the snowy colbelow Paso Superior. It was the night before the southern hemisphere’s spring equinox—winter for a few more hours, and it felt like it. The sun set early on the east side of the range and the spires of the Chaltén Massif cast towering shadows o
  
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• Did The Farmers' Almanac Get it Right? Analyzing Winter 24/25 Thus Far

  03-02-2025 17:46 via powder.com
  
  Welcome to our mid-season check-in for the Winter 24/25.Overall, it’s been a mixed bag across North America. We’ve seen strong starts in the Pacific Northwest and the northern Rockies, a drier-than-usual stretch for the Southwest, plus some interesting ups and downs in California. Let’s take a closer look at how each region is stacking up so far and what’s in store as February begins.Feel free to compare the results to what the Farmers' Almanac predicted back in October o
  
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• Review: We Put Armada's New AR One 130 MV Boots To The Test

  03-02-2025 16:34 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.Always the innovators, Armada Skis launched a brand-new line of ski boots this year, promising a radical rethinking of how we attach our feet to our skis. The result of the last few years of quiet development, Armada’s new AR ONE 130 MV boot is one of the most unique-looking boots we’ve ever seen. It falls somewhere between a traditional four-buckle over
  
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• Is Park City Worth Visiting? This Skier Found Out

  03-02-2025 12:23 via powder.com
  
  Somewhere along the way, I’d found myself in a spa.Well, that’s not totally true. I did sign up for a facial, admittedly doing so because I believed it would be the quickest spa treatment. Usually, for me — and possibly you — ski trips entail cheap beer, overcrowded AirBNBs, and the pursuit of lesser-known, hidden gem resorts. So, as silly as it might sound, the prospect of being pampered beyond belief during a facial that included something called a “foot ritual&rd
  
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