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• Iconic Summer Ski Area Beartooth Basin Will Open This Year

  25-03-2025 20:09 via powder.com
  
  According to the Beartooth Basin website, the legendary summer ski area will open this summer. Currently, the ski area's website says it will open for the season on May 25, 2025 and will remain open daily until July 6, weather permitting. Beartooth Basin, which is located to northeast of Yellowstone National Park on the Wyoming/Montana border, is one of the country's only summer ski areas.
  Sitting at 10,000ft on the Beartooth Highway, which is closed during the winter due to snow, Beartooth
  
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• Washington's Largest Ski Resort Extends Season

  25-03-2025 19:27 via powder.com
  
  Washington skiers rejoice—ski season isn't over yet!Washington's largest ski area by skiable acres, Crystal Mountain, has extended its season until May 26, 2025.Thanks to the 5+ feet of snow they've gotten in March alone, Crystal's snowpack is in good shape and has allowed them to stay open longer. The resort announced via social media that it will be open daily until April 20th and then on weekends only until May 26th. Want to keep up with the best stories and photos in skiing?
  
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• Which Blizzard-Tecnica Athlete Can Eat the Most Schnitzel? Austria Trip Report

  25-03-2025 19:21 via powder.com
  
  After a fitful night of Economy seat sleep, I landed in Munich and refreshed the location of the AirTag I'd put in my checked bag. It was still at the gate I'd landed at in San Francisco fifteen hours earlier. Sick. With only my camera bag and ski boots in tow, I'd made my way from the airport and now sat in a little wooden house in the back of a pub in Munich with a portion of the marketing team and several of the athletes for Austrian based ski and boot brand, Blizzard Tecnica.
  In my
  
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• The Longest Vertical Ski Run in the Country Just Opened

  25-03-2025 19:01 via powder.com
  
  When it comes to top-to-bottom sustained vertical drop, no ski resort in the United States tops Timberline Lodge, located on Mt. Hood, Oregon.Timberline's vertical (when terrain can be skied from the top of the Palmer Lift to the bottom of the former Summit Pass Ski Area) is an astounding 4,540 feet.
  Due to the drastic change in elevation, and harsh winters on Palmer, the full vertical isn't accessible on a daily basis. Today, March 25, 2025, however, is the "perfect" day to tackle the full 4,50
  
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• What is Super-G Skiing?

  25-03-2025 18:24 via powder.com
  
  Alpine ski racing is broken into several different events with some skiers participating in multiple disciplines and some focusing on one or two. The disciplines include Downhill, Giant Slalom, Super-G, Slalom, and Combined. Different disciplines place different emphasis on speed versus technicality, but in general, alpine racing is one of the most technique-heavy types of skiing and ski racing.In the simplest terms, Super-G is one of the disciplines of competitive downhill alpine ski racing. Wi
  
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• Why I Always Carry a $15 Ski Lock

  25-03-2025 18:05 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.My friends laughed hysterically as I locked up my new pair of snowblades from Moment Skis to a fence outside of The Slot Bar at Palisades Tahoe, California."Hey, laugh at me all you want, but I refuse to be the guy who gets his gear stolen," I replied with a smile on my face. It's a response I've uttered time and time again, and one that I'm surprised my friends hav
  
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• Review: Altai Skis Presents A Counterpoint to the Conventional Ski Experience

  25-03-2025 16:00 via powder.com
  
  In an office nestled amongst the rolling pine-perfumed hills of north-central Washington, not far from the Canadian border, Nils Larsen, a veteran of the ski world for the better part of four decades, talks about skiing–minimalist, backcountry, free-heel skiing.His boutique brand Altai Skis–a small, eclectic, almost countercultural establishment–finds its home in tiny and idyllic Curlew, far from the business hubs and distribution centers of Salt Lake City and Denver. And the c
  
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• Farmers' Almanac Predicts "Sizzling" Summer 2025

  25-03-2025 15:54 via powder.com
  
  Spring is here and many Americans already have their eyes on set on summer vacations, time in the sun, and longer stretches of daylight.
  We here at POWDER are holding onto every last drop of spring skiing before we concede to summer's heat, but the Farmers' Almanac's recently released 2025 Summer Weather Forecast caught our attention this morning.The accuracy of the Farmers' Almanac is up for debate, something that POWDER's Ian Greenwood covered in a previous article, but the outlet's
  
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• Black Diamond Skiing Explained: Skills, Gear and Best Runs

  25-03-2025 15:26 via powder.com
  
  Despite skiing's complicated phrases, slang, and descriptors when it comes to snow and gear, the sport uses a rather simple method for labeling the difficulty of trails.In North America, ski resorts use the following system to identify the difficulty of each slope (trail types are listed in ascending order of difficulty):Green Circle: EasiestBlue Square: Intermediate/More DifficultBlack Diamond Difficult/Most DifficultDouble Black Diamond- Hardest/Extremely DifficultThe term 'blac
  
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• "Rapidly Diminishing Snow": New Mexico Ski Area To Close a Week Early

  25-03-2025 13:02 via powder.com
  
  Ski Santa Fe, New Mexico, is closing a week earlier than planned due to “Unusually warm temperatures and rapidly diminishing snow.”The ski area will now close on March 30, 2025 according to a social media update.Those who have pre-purchased a lift ticket or lessons for dates between March 31 and April 6 can secure refunds through their online Ski Santa Fe accounts.Want to keep up with the best stories and photos in skiing? Subscribe to the new Powder To The People newsletter for week
  
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• The Countdown for Natural Selection’s First Ski Event Is On

  25-03-2025 12:48 via powder.com
  
  The athletes of the inaugural Natural Selection Tour (NST) Ski competition have arrived in Alaska as anticipation builds for the event’s broadcast debut on April 17, 2025.Over the past few days, NST has shared members of the crew scoring “warm-up” laps in the Alaskan backcountry. In one clip, Colby Stevenson blasted down a powdery spine. In another, Hedvig Wessel charged alongside the crew through fresh snow.
  The concentration of talent is immense. The men’s roster includ
  
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• Pump House Burns to Ground at New York Ski Area

  25-03-2025 12:28 via powder.com
  
  Disaster of the 1983 Talking Heads variety struck at Holiday Mountain in New York over the weekend.High winds took a utility pole down onto the ski area's snowmaking pump house, which held three large transformers. The impact of the utility pole caused the transformers to spark and ultimately start a fire in the pump house.
  Luckily, the Rock Hill Fire Department and New York State Electric and Gas company shut the active power lines off quickly so firefighters could get to the building and put t
  
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• Canada's Largest Resort Offering Free Lift Tickets for Kids

  25-03-2025 11:48 via powder.com
  
  If you've got some kids in your posse, Revelstoke Mountain Resort, British Columbia, is worth a visit in the coming weeks.Kids aged 12 and younger ski free with the purchase of an adult lift ticket at Revelstoke through the resort's closing date of April 21, 2025.That's not the only spring deal Revelstoke is running. Skiers with a season pass at any North American ski resort can nab 50% off lift tickets at Revelstoke also through April 21. The discounted tickets for adults cost $89.50 Canadian.R
  
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