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• Alterra To Offer Ski Rain Checks Thanks to Partnership With Sensible Weather

  27-02-2025 23:13 via powder.com
  
  What if, when it poured rain or the visibility sucked during your ski trip, you got a lift ticket refund? For Sensible Weather, a company founded by entrepreneur and climate scientist Nick Cavanaugh, the goal is to make that speculation a reality. Visitors will soon be able to protect their lift ticket purchases from bad weather at several U.S. ski resorts — including some yet unannounced Alterra Mountain Company destinations — through a partnership between Sensible Weather and
  
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• Rhode Island's Only Ski Area Enjoys Best Winter Since 2018

  27-02-2025 20:50 via powder.com
  
  Thanks to chilly weather, Rhode Island's only ski area is having its best season in seven years, according to local news reports.Yawgoo Valley, which is about 30 minutes from Providence, has been able to open 100% of its terrain this season, which hasn't happened since 2018.
   Although the snow has had more of a mushy consistency than blower powder, locals are still elated that the state's last standing ski area is open."The snow, this year especially, has been amazing. These are the best sn
  
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• Is La Niña Still in Charge? Yes, but a Change Is Coming

  27-02-2025 20:17 via powder.com
  
  For skiers across the Western U.S., the 2024-25 season has been a tale of feast or famine.
  In one corner, the Pacific Northwest and Northern Rockies have rejoiced with fairly frequent storms and healthy snowfall. In the other, the Southwest has been left high and dry, watching storm clouds bypass overhead. One culprit behind this powder disparity is La Niña—a climate pattern known to tip the snow scales—which arrived fashionably late this winter and dealt very uneven hands to
  
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• Snowmobiler Captures Terrifying Avalanche Burial on Video

  27-02-2025 19:35 via powder.com
  
  Last week, a casual day of meadow sledding turned into a near-death experience for a Wisconsin snowmobiler. While on a trip to Steamboat Springs, Colorado, avid snowmobiler Aidan Croft was caught in an avalanche. Croft was sledding with a group of friends in North Routt, around Hahn's Peak, in terrain he was familiar with.
   His GoPro captured him gleefully sledding through an open meadow before heading toward the base of a steeper slope. Croft remembers that he'd intended to climb
  
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• After Avalanches Cause Delay, Freeride World Tour Announces New Competition Date

  27-02-2025 19:04 via powder.com
  
  This Saturday, March 1, the Freeride World Tour (FWT) plans to return to the Kakhiani face, a mountainous venue that, last winter, hosted the first FWT Pro event in Georgia. After unstable snow and avalanches prompted a safety delay, the Georgia Pro, the fourth competition in the FWT’s season-long freeride series, is scheduled to kick off at 9:00 a.m. CET.The Kakhiani face was almost not the FWT’s chosen venue for this year’s event. Several days ago, organizers announced t
  
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• Forecasters Issue Sober Warning Amid “Dangerous” Northeast Avalanche Conditions

  27-02-2025 17:51 via powder.com
  
  After skiers triggered multiple large avalanches throughout the Presidential Range of New Hampshire’s White Mountains on Wednesday, the Mount Washington Avalanche Center (MWAC) issued a reminder via social media: “Avalanche conditions are dangerous.”The forecasters highlighted two recent incidents, one of which involved the rescue of a buried skier.An image of Hillman's Highway from 2010.Photo: ScottOrr/Getty ImagesThe first occurred on Hillman’s Highway
  
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• A Message to Skiers After a Deadly Month of Avalanches

  27-02-2025 12:26 via powder.com
  
  Dear POWDER Readers,
  In the last week, I’ve written five articles about avalanche-related deaths.
  I’ve seen social media posts about the individuals from friends of friends and avalanche centers, and I have felt a collective sadness for those lost through my local ski community. It’s devastating to hear about people dying in the mountains, especially so many in a row, but I also won’t pretend that writing so many iterations of a ‘Person Killed in Avalanche’ he
  
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