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• Las Vegas' Ski Season Extended

  09-04-2025 21:37 via powder.com
  
  Las Vegas isn't a ski town per se, but with Lee Canyon ski area just a 45 minute drive from The Strip, there are plenty of skiers in the growing population center.Lee Canyon recently announced that Mother Nature delivered more than 60 inches of snow in March and early April, enough to extend their season by a couple of weeks.
  The resort will now remain open for skiing and riding seven days a week through Sunday, April 20, 2025, a respectably-late closing date for a southern ski area.Johnny DeGeo
  
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• April Showers Dump 12" of Snow on New England Ski Resorts

  09-04-2025 21:01 via powder.com
  
  The New England ski season may be winding down, but that doesn’t mean spring showers—and spring powder turns—are out of the question. Several ski areas in the region have seen a significant refresh this week.“If you took your snow tires off, audibly wished for 75 degrees and sunny, put away your snow blower for the year, or went looking for bathing suits at TJ Maxx—to that, Ullr calmly said ‘hold my beer,’” Jay Peak Resort, Vermont, wrote in its mo
  
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• The Freeride Revolution Is Growing at Sugar Bowl's Silver Belt Classic

  09-04-2025 20:58 via powder.com
  
  Professional big mountain and freeride skier Xander Guldman had a big idea back in 2023— Let's relaunch Sugar Bowl's iconic Silver Belt Classic race as a unique freeride event.Sugar Bowl President and CEO Bridget Legnavsky hopped on board, and 2024's inaugural relaunch of the Silver Belt Classic was incredible, to say the least. The crowd was mesmerized as the athletes took advantage of a unique freeride venue enhanced with manmade features, but this wasn't a casual walk through the park.T
  
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• Colorado Ski Resort To Build New Lift This Summer

  09-04-2025 19:19 via powder.com
  
  Purgatory Resort, Colorado, will construct a new chairlift this summer and develop up to five new trails and connectors per a recently announced capital investment project.
   The ski area will temporarily close Purgatory Bike Park this summer to make way for the construction project.The new lift, dubbed the Gelande, is a fixed-grip triple chairlift manufactured by Skytrac that will travel to the looker’s left of the Needles lift. According to a press release shared by Purgatory, the pr
  
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• How Pro Skier Chris Rubens Helped Atomic Design His Dream Ski

  09-04-2025 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.As skiers, we make choices everyday. Should I get up early for first tracks? How many layers do I need? What ski am I riding? We watch weather like it’s our job, we read reviews and make calculated purchases of new gear or a season pass. We plan our calendars so we can ski as much as possible around life’s other obligations. Over the years, this process becom
  
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• Colorado Skier Dodges Frightened Bear in Viral Video

  09-04-2025 17:50 via powder.com
  
  A video of a black bear running across a popular ski trail in Colorado is making its rounds across the internet this week.According to ABC7, the video was filmed at Keystone Resort, Colorado on the 'Schoolmarm' trail by Nathan Lynch, an employee of the resort on Sunday, April 6, 2025. Schoolmarm is Keystone's famous three mile long trail that serves as a popular thoroughfare for beginner skiers and families.Lynch told Storyful, a video aggregator site, that he heard through the grapevi
  
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• What Is Pond Skimming? Spring Skiing’s Wildest Tradition

  09-04-2025 13:00 via powder.com
  
  The snow has to stop falling, and the snow has to melt. Skiing, that thing we love so much, is time-sensitive. Each year, the expiration date arrives, and as everyone else is celebrating the end of the long, dark winter, we’re left mourning the turns that will have to wait until next fall.But winter doesn’t quietly dissolve into muddy nothingness. Instead, skiers the world over know how to give the coldest season of the year a warm departure with raucous closing-day parties. Common a
  
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• Unique Summer-Only Ski Area Plans To Open Despite "Low Tide"

  09-04-2025 12:30 via powder.com
  
  The conditions at Beartooth Basin, Wyoming—a summer-only ski area near Yellowstone National Park—look "kinda low tide," according to an update shared by the ski area's team on social media. In skier's parlance, that means there isn't much snow.Still, after being closed last summer due to low snowfall, Beartooth Basin is aiming to reopen for skiing and riding come May.View this post on InstagramA post shared by Beartooth Basin Ski Area (@beartoothbasin)
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• Could a Mainstream Manufacturer Come Back to Telemark?

  09-04-2025 01:05 via powder.com
  
  Long ago, during a time much different than today, telemark wasn’t just en vogue. It held the distinction of being the technique of the backcountry skier in North America. That cachet stoked strong demand, and the telemark marketplace of the new millennium teemed with gear. Years before social media and smartphones, when ski towns were quiet and affordable and the jamband ethos still had strength, legacy free-heel models abounded while new SKUs routinely came to market–even from alpi
  
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