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• Top Freeskiers Headed To California Resort Next Week

  16-04-2025 22:35 via powder.com
  
  Level 1's hard-hitting freestyle competition culminates at Palisades Tahoe next week. SuperUnknown was started more than 20 years ago as a vessel to help young skiers get discovered. The process of pursuing sponsorship and a professional ski career isn't exactly something they teach you in school. The contest sought to streamline that process by getting eyes from the industry on young talent outside the traditional competition scene. More than two decades later, SuperUnknown is still going
  
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• Forecasted High Winds Force Alaskan Ski Resort To Close

  16-04-2025 21:16 via powder.com
  
  Alyeska Resort, Alaska, has temporarily closed for the day on Wednesday, April 16, to ensure the safety of its guests and staff amid high winds that could gust as high as 90 miles per hour.The resort cautioned in a social media post that the winds could move loose debris and damage property. A high wind warning published by the National Weather Service is in effect throughout the Alyeska area until 1 a.m. Thursday.“People are urged to secure loose objects that could be blown around or dama
  
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• Skiers Battle for an FWT Invite at Arapahoe Basin, Colorado

  16-04-2025 19:39 via powder.com
  
  The second to last stop of the Americas Region Challenger Tour has come and gone. Now, we have a better idea of which skiers on our side of the pond might be competing on the Freeride World Tour in 2026.On April 15, big league hopefuls—and athletes trying to earn a ticket back to the FWT after failing to earn points this competitive season—threw down at Arapahoe Basin, Colorado.Here's how the podium of each category stacked up.Want to keep up with the best stories and photos in skiin
  
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• Epic Storm Could Bury Swiss Ski Resort in 3+ Feet of Snow

  16-04-2025 18:44 via powder.com
  
  A potent midweek storm is set to blanket much of the Alps with significant snowfall, particularly from Wednesday night through Friday.
  Zermatt is the standout performer, potentially racking up as much as 40–50 inches by Friday night. Val Thorens also looks primed for major accumulations, with around 25–35 inches on tap through Friday. Meanwhile, Chamonix, Verbier, and Courchevel all flirt with the 20–25 inch range. A weaker system arrives later in the weekend and into early nex
  
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• Sit Skier Lands a World's First at Swatch Nines

  16-04-2025 18:28 via powder.com
  
  One of the coolest events in freeskiing just wrapped up and as usual, the tricks that came out of it were absolutely mind boggling. With a course build that's truly a work of art, Swatch Nines opens doors for invited athletes to ski more creatively than most people could dream up. This year, that included more insane skiing from sit-skier Jay Rawe. For those unfamiliar with Rawe's story, the now-Tahoe based sit-skier was injured in a BASE jumping accident in Idaho in March of 2014. A s
  
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• Popular Vermont Ski Resort Announces Closing Day

  16-04-2025 18:02 via powder.com
  
  All good things must come to an end, and the final day of skiing and riding at Stowe Mountain Resort, Vermont, is in sight. The ski resort has announced plans to close on April 27.It’s a bittersweet moment. For Stowe, two months of the ski season—January and February—saw record snowfall. The resort, in a press release shared Wednesday, said this snow produced some of the best conditions in years. As of April, Stowe has received 350 inches of snow, which is about 40 inches highe
  
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• Strava Quietly Adds 3D Winter Mapping To App

  16-04-2025 16:00 via powder.com
  
  Blink and you might have missed it. FATMAP is back! Well, sort of. As we already lamented here on POWDER, our favorite 3D mapping app FATMAP was shut off for good last fall after being acquired by exercise tracking app Strava. In that process, users lost access to a powerful 3D visualization tool filled with high-resolution winter imagery of mountains and route descriptions. It left plenty of skiers disgruntled with the new owners, but it seems Strava has finally listened to the outcry and re-in
  
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• A Look Into NST Ski With Event Director Mike Douglas

  16-04-2025 15:45 via powder.com
  
  If you've kept tabs on the ski industry any time in the last 20 years, Mike Douglas is probably a name you've heard. In case you're rusty, Douglas was a Whistler-based mogul skier who became an influential force in freeskiing. More recently, Douglas has become known for his filmmaking with Salomon TV and his own company, Switchback Entertainment. Now, he has assumed the role of event director for Natural Selection Ski, a role that makes perfect sense, given his resume.While we still do
  
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• Washington's Largest Ski Resort To Replace Aging Chairlift This Summer

  16-04-2025 12:45 via powder.com
  
  Washington's largest ski resort, Crystal Mountain, will replace its Rainier Express chairlift this summer.Known affectionately as "REX," the high-speed quad chairlift was constructed in 1988, becoming the first of its kind in the state. It delivers skiers to an upper-mountain ridgeline with views of Mt. Rainier. Trails beneath the chair, namely Sunnyside and The Doors, are popular spots for local skiers on powder days.Starting in June, REX will be replaced with a new high-speed quad manufactured
  
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