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• Italian Businessman Cuts Ski Lift Line With Helicopter

  14-04-2025 22:40 via powder.com
  
  Tired of waiting in lift lines?You could make like Italian businessman Giorgio Bortolo Oliva who, last week, according to several news reports, used a helicopter to fly and land at about 2,400 meters near the slopes of Grostè, an area of the ski resort Madonna di Campiglio.
   Then, Oliva exited the helicopter and started putting on his ski boots before heading down.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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• One Dead and Two Injured After Swiss Ski Race

  14-04-2025 21:07 via powder.com
  
  After two separate accidents at a ski race in Saas-Fee, Switzerland, two skiers have been left injured and another dead, according to Swiss news reports.The incidents occurred during the Allalin Races, an event series that dates back to 1946 and is aimed at amateur and professional skiers alike. This year’s iteration was held on Friday and Saturday; the competition included several team and individual races. The course starts at around 3,500 meters and finishes near the village of Saas-Fee
  
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• Ski Area Staff Reacts To Hilarious Online Reviews and Questions

  14-04-2025 20:04 via powder.com
  
  Running a commercial social media account can be a thankless job sometimes. It's seemingly easy for folks to forget that there's usually just one human behind an account that has to read all the comments and answer all the questions and messages. On the upside, that person also gets a sampling of some of the oddest things people have to say on the internet. After a long season of whatever twists and turns managing the social media for a ski area comes with, Wachusett Mountain staff member C
  
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• Review: How Do Völkl's New $1350 V-Werks Katana Skis Compare?

  14-04-2025 19:34 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.Finding one ski for everyday use has always been tough, if not completely impossible. The terrain and conditions of Jackson Hole and the surrounding sidecountry are incredibly diverse and variable–you might encounter breakable wind crust, powder, groomed corduroy and ice all in a single 4,000-foot run. Features can change from a technical steep tight narrow couloir
  
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• Winter's Return: A Foot of Snow Possible Out West This Week

  14-04-2025 19:02 via powder.com
  
  A mid-April storm with a cold front will blast the Rockies later this week and into the weekend. Some areas in the West will grab over a foot of powder by Saturday night.Expected storm totals through Sunday, April 20thRed Lodge, Montana: 12-16 inchesRocky Mountain National Park, Colorado: 8-13 inchesAlta, Colorado: 7-12 inchesBerthoud Pass, Colorado: 7-12 inchesGlacier National Park, Montana: 7-10 inchesEldora, Colorado: 7-10 inchesWinter Park, Colorado: 5-10 inchesLoveland Pass, Colorado: 5-10
  
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• Alaska to Host The Freeride World Tour in 2026

  14-04-2025 15:00 via powder.com
  
  The people have asked, and the Freeride World Tour (FWT) has answered—next winter, the FWT is headed back to Alaska for a big mountain event in Haines in March 2026 for the YETI Haines Alaska Pro.The event will mark the first Alaskan stop of the FWT since 2017.The FWT’s CEO, Nicolas Hale-Woods, in a conversation with POWDER about the lack of North American FWT stops last summer, teased the possibility of a new Alaskan event in 2026, saying that discussions with prospective partners f
  
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