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• Park City To Begin Multi-Year Parking Structure Project

  12-03-2025 19:25 via powder.com
  
  Construction on a new parking structure at Park City Mountain, Utah, will soon begin in the Canyons Village, and reductions to free parking are expected starting March 17.The TownLift reports that, on March 17, 50% of the Cabriolet lot at the Canyons Village will close. About two weeks later, capacity in the Cabriolet lot will reduce further between April 1 and April 20 before closing entirely until December 2025 as construction on the new garage continues. Via the Cabriolet lot, visitors to Par
  
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• Montana Skier Dies After Falling From Chair Without Safety Bar

  12-03-2025 18:47 via powder.com
  
  The man involved in an accident on a chairlift at Red Lodge Mountain has passed away.The accident occurred on Monday, March 10th at Red Lodge Mountain on the Triple Chairlift. One person, a 37-year-old man from Billings, Montana, was injured and transported to the hospital before being airlifted to a larger hospital in Billings.
  LiftBlog has confirmed that the Triple Chair does not have a safety restraint bar. The chair was built in 1983 and will remain closed while under investigation following
  
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• RIP Sven Coomer, The "Forrest Gump of Ski Boots"

  12-03-2025 17:50 via powder.com
  
  Sven Coomer, founder of ZipFit and a ski boot design visionary, passed away on Monday, March 10, at 84 in Carbondale, Colorado. According to the International Skiing History Association, he was with his children, Robin and Seth, during his last moments.Coomer’s impact on the world of ski gear design was outsized. In the equipment locker, you’re bound to find his fingerprints everywhere.
  He revolutionized the design of the modern ski boot and contributed to or developed an enormous li
  
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• Blizzard to "Heavily" Impact Travel to Lake Tahoe

  12-03-2025 17:12 via powder.com
  
  The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) has issued an important travel alert as feet of snow is in the immediate forecast.A Winter Storm Warning is in effect from 11 p.m. Tuesday (March 11) through 11 p.m. Thursday (March 13) across Northern California, including popular ski destinations in the Lake Tahoe region.The snow is expected to be heavy with one to three feet forecasted to fall above 4,000 feet of elevation. Caltrans is warning that winds will gust to 65 mph, further hampe
  
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• Alaska Avalanche Victims Yet To Be Recovered One Week Later

  12-03-2025 16:30 via powder.com
  
  POWDER reported on a devastating avalanche that claimed the lives of three heli-skiers on Tuesday, March 4, 2025.The victims were skiing with Chugach Powder Guides, a heli-skiing operation based in Girdwood, Alaska on a run the guide service frequents.
  Eye-witness accounts claim all three skiers deployed their avalanche airbags, but their bodies were believed to be buried by 40-100 feet of avalanche debris, according to beacon signals found by the guides.Due to the immense depth of the aval
  
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• The Skier's Guide to Eating in Norway

  12-03-2025 14:14 via powder.com
  
  Eating and skiing are two of life's greatest gifts, and anyone who claims to not enjoy snacking while on the mountain is definitely an untrustworthy soul in my book. One of my absolute favorite activities when traveling to ski is sampling the regional cuisine. Sharing a meal with fellow skiers, whether on a mountaintop or in a crowded après dive is a surefire way to make lifelong friends, no matter what continent you are on. Norway, the land of the Vikings, fjords, and midnight sun,
  
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• Alta Ski Area Celebrates Deep Snowfall Benchmark

  12-03-2025 13:41 via powder.com
  
  At Alta Ski Area, Utah, another seasonal milestone has come and gone.Late last week, the Little Cottonwood Canyon destination passed 400 inches of seasonal snowfall.
   Still, a considerable gap between Alta Ski Area’s current season snowfall total and its average season snowfall total of 548 inches remains.Incoming snowy weather may close or, at least, narrow that window, though. Starting Thursday, a storm that could deliver more than two feet of snow will hit Alta Ski Area, and the mo
  
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• New York Resort Publicly Shames Caught Ski Thief on Social Media

  12-03-2025 12:33 via powder.com
  
  A New York ski area is publicly shaming a man for stealing skis by sharing his image to social media.Holiday Mountain, in upstate New York, posted to social media accounts on Monday, March 10, 2025 to say they'd caught a man who had been stealing skis. With the help of the Sullivan County Sheriff's Department, the resort was able to recover three pairs of stolen skis. The mountain also said they'd installed over 200 surveillance cameras for customer safety and to prevent situations like thi
  
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• Ski Etiquette 101: Chairlifts, Right-of-Way and More

  12-03-2025 11:27 via powder.com
  
  Skiing is a complicated sport. We ride hulking machines through the air, schuss down slopes packed with other skiers, and otherwise recreate in a dynamic, ever-changing mountain environment. For those new to the sport, navigating the rules and etiquette that come alongside the skiing experience can be downright intimidating.You don't need to be paralyzed by the mountains, though. These 12 tips and pointers will help you make sense of your first few visits to the ski resort. Already an experience
  
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• Skier Shatters Reality With Double Flip on XC Skis

  12-03-2025 11:02 via powder.com
  
  As a rule of thumb, a skilled user can make any pair of skis work on the slopes, whether they’re long, stiff, short, or soft.
   Cross-country (XC) skis, though, which explicitly aren’t designed for downhill or aerial use, are an exception to that rule. Or, they were, at least, until freeskier and Norwegian Olympian Birk Ruud came along.Check out Ruud’s wild double cork 1080 with cross-country skis below. He claims its the first double cork 1080 done on skis. POWDER has
  
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