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• California's Oldest Ski Area Won't Open This Season

  12-02-2025 20:24 via powder.com
  
  Badger Pass, a small, 90-year-old ski area in Yosemite National Park, has announced that it won’t open for skiing and riding this winter following a decision made by the National Park Service and Yosemite Hospitality.In a post made on social media, the ski area shared that the season closure stemmed from a lack of early-season snow.While snow could arrive at the ski area in the near future, “the snow totals have been too unreliable to wait any longer to be able to open Badger for les
  
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• Gear Theft Is on the Rise, According to a Maine Ski Area

  12-02-2025 19:11 via powder.com
  
  Black Mountain of Maine, a small ski area in Rumford, said in a recent social media update that it has seen a few incidences of gear theft inside and outside of its lodge, cautioning guests to lock up their equipment and asking that they report any suspicious behavior.“Unfortunately, this is an issue affecting many ski areas in our region & across the industry — not just us,” the ski area wrote. “Please know that the police have been informed, & we will prosecute
  
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• 9 Breathtaking Moments of Kings & Queens of Corbet's Couloir 2025

  12-02-2025 18:17 via powder.com
  
  The latest edition of Jackson Hole Mountain Resort's premiere freeride competition, Kings & Queens of Corbet's Couloir, went down on Tuesday, February 11, 2025.Temperatures hovered in the single digits, but winds remained calm, and despite a brief 30-minutes of cloud cover, spectators were treated to a fantastic view of the entire course from the viewing area at the bottom of Ten Sleep Bowl.I had the pleasure of standing atop the cornice as athletes hucked themselves into North America's mos
  
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• Anything But One Person Per Car: Lake Tahoe Community Asks for Help

  12-02-2025 16:21 via powder.com
  
  Lake Tahoe isn't a secret.
  As one of the most popular destinations for ski vacations in the world, the area can experience large influxes of tourists on weekends and Holidays.Traffic congestion can be a problem during these peak periods, but data collected by the Destination Stewardship Council shows that skiers are opting to carpool or utilize public transportation at an increasing rate in the Tahoe area.As an example, this year from season opening through the holiday period, pub
  
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• Looking for Love? Try Speed Dating on a Chairlift

  12-02-2025 15:18 via powder.com
  
  Love — and hopefully powder — are in the air.At Mad River Glen, Vermont, an opportunity to meet your next winter sports-inclined lover is fast approaching. On Valentine’s Day 2025, the ski area is hosting an inaugural free speed dating event for those with a lift ticket or season pass.The romantic meet-up will be held at the Sunnyside Double chairlift at noon this Friday, with check-in taking place at 10:30 a.m. Singles will ride the lift, determining if the skier sat next to t
  
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• My Backyard Ski Hill is Way Better Than It Looks

  12-02-2025 13:26 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.Way Better Than it LooksDeep powder is seriously overrated. I’m certain many skiers can relate to this, or that they will…eventually. In fact, snow, while it has many perks, is by no means necessary for having a great time skiing. And while it’s helpful to have grown up sliding across rocks and root
  
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• California Skiers Are Up in Arms Over Potential Avalanche Forecaster Layoff

  12-02-2025 13:04 via powder.com
  
  The Sierra Avalanche Center (SAC), which provides avalanche forecasts to the Lake Tahoe, California area, said in a recent social media post that it might lose one of its staff forecasters as part of ongoing federal government staff cuts.The layoff, which would be initiated by the U.S. Forest Service and could go into effect as early as next week, would put lives at risk, SAC said.
   “Over 200,000 individuals a year rely on the Sierra Avalanche Center’s forecast to avoid avalanch
  
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• American Ski Racers Claim Gold in New Combined World Championships Event

  12-02-2025 12:22 via powder.com
  
  Breezy Johnson and Mikaela Shiffrin won the World Championships’ inaugural alpine racing combined event on Tuesday, February 11, 2025.The new event paired one downhiller with a slalom racer, adding their cumulative times to determine each team’s final position. The winning Americans focused on their specialties. Shiffrin took slalom — Johnson took downhill.In their individual races, Shiffrin and Johnson performed well enough to establish the lowest combined time of the day. The
  
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• The 6 Best Ski Resorts for Seniors in the U.S.

  12-02-2025 11:48 via powder.com
  
  When I was 16, I tore some ligaments in my knee and had to wear a knee brace while skiing for a season. One day, I was putting my knee brace and ski boots on in the lodge in Steamboat Springs, and a woman next to me asked why I had a knee brace. I told her I'd injured my knee, and she sympathized and told me she'd had both knees replaced a few years ago. She said she hadn't been able to ski from the time she was 55 until she had them replaced at 73. Now 78, she went skiing almost every day and d
  
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• Review: 2025 Salomon QST Blank

  12-02-2025 08:00 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.There’s an aspect to ski design that I like to call the “sweet spot.” It’s actually a term I was first introduced to by the hardgoods manager of the first ski shop I worked at (Christy Sports in Boulder) when we were out getting to know the fresh crop of skis all the way back in 2011. He explained it to me as that secret sauce a ski has where you
  
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