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• Big Crashes and Big Stomps: The FWT Goes Huge in Kicking Horse

  07-02-2025 22:37 via powder.com
  
  The Kicking Horse Golden BC Pro has officially wrapped, and I think I might need to check in with our pre-competition prognosticators.Ahead of the event, we did something new and made an attempt to predict how the podium line-ups would shake out. By now, you might be able to guess where this is going — our predictions were, for the most part, incorrect. The only thing we did get right was that Kicking Horse Golden BC Pro would be bonkers.In the women’s field, Molly Armanino scored a
  
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• Chairlift "Falls From Sky" at Michigan Ski Area

  07-02-2025 20:39 via powder.com
  
  It's been a busy week for reporting on chairlift incidents.According to an image shared on the Mount Bohemia Family private Facebook group, a chair fell from the ski area's double chair on February 7, 2025. The Riblet Double has been operating at Mount Bohemia since 2001, according to LiftBlog.Conor S., who uploaded the photo, provided a few details about what allegedly happened after the incident: "People sat on lift for like 20 min and then they ran the lift very slowly to get people off."It i
  
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• Behind Every Skier is a Badass Mom

  07-02-2025 19:13 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 Mom LineMy mother skied the same day she gave birth to me. On Ellen Smoothy’s slim 5’3” frame, the unborn ten pounds of destabilising ballast relegated her to the mellow piste at the local hill. At midnight the bell tolled, inducing a laborious three-hour drive through the dark heart of a mid-win
  
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• Review: I Put A Touring Binding On Atomic’s FWT-Ready Maverick 115 CTi Skis

  07-02-2025 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.Different strokes for different folks, as they say. Atomic introduced the Maverick 115 CTi last year as the widest and hardest-charging member of the Maverick line. It’s an athlete-designed ski ready to take on the gnarliest venues of the Freeride World Tour under the feet of athletes like Craig Murray and Justine Dufour-Lapointe, the famously rugged spine faces of
  
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• I Found My Reset at Tamarack Resort, Idaho

  07-02-2025 17:46 via powder.com
  
  The ebbs and flows of life first brought me to Tamarack Resort, Idaho in February of 2023, nearly two years to the day of this article’s publication date.I was on assignment for another ski media company. The job, if you could even call it that, went something like this— Fly to Idaho. Stay in nice hotels. Go skiing. Eat good food. Meet nice people. Ski some more. Write about it. Get paid.
  I was living the dream, and yet, I felt stagnant. Hundreds of thousands of skiers were reading t
  
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• 7 People Caught in Avalanche in Jackson Hole

  07-02-2025 13:03 via powder.com
  
  On Monday, February 3, around 3:15 p.m., seven skiers were caught in an avalanche in the Jackson Hole backcountry. According to reports by Bridger Teton Avalanche Center, six people were grouped together in the apron below the Lost Lifty in the JHMR backcountry. The seventh skier traversed the slope slightly above where the others had and triggered a large avalanche that propagated across the slope. All seven skiers were carried by the avalanche. One person was partially buried in the
  
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• $1,000 Prize Announced for Minnesota Big Air Competition

  07-02-2025 12:27 via powder.com
  
  If slow, stylish spins and a $1000 prize purse are your jam, Wild Mountain, Minnesota, has some good news for you.This Saturday, February 8, 2025, the ski area is hosting Less Than Seven, an open big air competition with a unique format — spins and flips have to be less than 720 degrees (two complete rotations). The $1000 prize purse is split across the ski and snowboard categories.These days, elite-caliber freestyle events — think the World Cup or X Games — now occupy a realm
  
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