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• Who Will Win the Freeride World Tour in Kicking Horse? Our Bold Predictions

  06-02-2025 22:53 via powder.com
  
  The only Freeride World Tour stop in North America is fast approaching (it kicks off Friday, February 7 at 8:45 MST, with the skiers dropping after the snowboarders), and we figured — with our not-so-infinite freeride wisdom — we’d throw our helmets into the prediction ring.
  These are our bold and almost certainly incorrect guesses at how the Kicking Horse Golden BC Pro will play out.Ozone, the competition face for this iteration of the Kicking Horse Golden BC Pro.Photo&col
  
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• Salt Lake City Ties February Heat Record

  06-02-2025 21:42 via powder.com
  
  At 3:00 p.m. on February 5th, thermometers in Salt Lake City hit a whopping 69 degrees Fahrenheit, reported KSL News.
  The unseasonably warm day officially ties for the warmest recorded temperature in Salt Lake City for the month of February. The last day to hit 69 degrees in the month was February 28, 1972. The temperature also broke the previous daily record from 1925. View this post on InstagramA post shared by Matthew Johnson (@ksl_matt)
  Heat in Salt Lake turned what could have been
  
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• Sixty-Four People Evacuated From Ski Lift in New Hampshire

  06-02-2025 21:04 via powder.com
  
  Sixty-four passengers were evacuated from a chairlift at Cannon Mountain, New Hampshire, Wednesday after a mechanical error, according to news reports and a press statement shared by the ski area.
   A bolt affixed to the power take-off (PTO) shaft failed on the Peabody Express Quad lift at approximately 10:13 a.m., the ski area said, leading to the evacuation. Afterward, a team consisting of ski patrollers and mountain operations personnel rescued visitors from the stopped lift using ropes.
  
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• American Ski Racer Claims Her First World Championships Medal

  06-02-2025 19:55 via powder.com
  
  About a month after her first World Cup win, American alpine racer Lauren Macuga has notched another item on the skiing bucket list — a podium finish in the World Championships.For Macuga, it was her first World Championships appearance, adding to the moment’s gravitas. She tied for third in the Super G event Thursday alongside Kajsa Vickhoff Lie, finishing behind Federica Brignone and Stephanie Venier, who earned second and first, respectively.There was another point of significance
  
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• "Swallowed by Snow": Lawsuit Filed Against Tahoe Ski Resort

  06-02-2025 19:31 via powder.com
  
  Heavenly Resort in Lake Tahoe is currently facing a lawsuit following the death of a snowboarder at the resort, according to a court filing shared with POWDER.46-year-old Wesley Whalen passed away while snowboarding at Heavenly in March of 2023. A lawsuit filed against the resort and its parent company stated that Whelan's death occurred as a result of being suffocated by loose snow after sinking into it, like quicksand. Whalen, a resident of New York, was visiting the Tahoe region the week
  
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• Review: A Ski Patroller Tests The TREW Women’s Rock Creek Work Bib

  06-02-2025 18:00 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.The world is changing. Working outside all day in cold mountain environments used to be undoubtedly a male-dominated field, but now you see women doing serious work all day long as ski patrollers, lift operators, cat drivers, maintenance crews, and more. I’m a new ski patroller, and over half of the folks in my training class are women. We need gear that fits
  
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• Finland: The Street Skiing Capital of the World

  06-02-2025 17:33 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.Rock and Roll CarrotFrom Ruka Ski Resort to the streets of Helsinki, the Finnish collective Forre has produced countless mind-melting cuts over the last few seasons. Part of their meteoric rise in the niche that is street skiing can be attributed to Arttu Heikkinen, one of the visionaries in this crew. Heikkinen produ
  
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• Cold Smoke Incoming: Snow Conditions Look Promising in Montana This Weekend

  06-02-2025 16:31 via powder.com
  
  In Montana, the winter is officially underway as the snow continues to pile up. Ski resorts across the state have seen solid, incremental refreshes over the past week, with more of the good stuff on the way.
   Here’s a look at what’s happening in Big Sky country as a potentially powdery weekend approaches.Big Sky ResortTotal snowfall in the past seven days: 14 inchesMontana’s largest ski resort, Big Sky, continues to see snow, with consistent flurries anticipated through th
  
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• FWT Confirms Friday Start Date for Kicking Horse Golden BC Pro

  06-02-2025 12:12 via powder.com
  
  It’s official — the Freeride World Tour’s only North American stop has been confirmed for the morning of Friday, February 7th, at 8:45 a.m. MST.Set in Kicking Horse Mountain Resort, British Columbia, this iteration of the FWT will see competitors descend the Ozone face, a towering freeride-ready venue. FWT Commissioner Laurent Besse, in a press release, called Ozone “the most aesthetic venue of the whole Tour."The Ozone face.Photo: Freeride World Tour/JE
  
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• A frozen, protected wonderland: slow adventure in the less visited French Alps

  06-02-2025 08:00
  At the gateway to the Vanoise national park, new cabins make a great base for a wild winter retreat that’s laid-back but packed with activityThe snow is deep and soft as we pad slowly forward, a muffled crunching the only sound breaking the silence. All around us, the jagged peaks of the Vanoise massif pierce the sky, glinting in the clear morning light. As we walk, Matthieu, my snowshoeing guide, points out fresh tracks – mountain hare, roe deer, fox – and on the mountainside
  
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