Skiing news

• Arizona Ski Area Extends Ski Season by Four Days

  18-04-2025 23:18 via powder.com
  
  At Arizona Snowbowl, the ski season will stick around for a little longer.The ski area is extending its season thanks to early-season snowmaking and grooming efforts and solid March snowfall.
   In a four-day season extension, the mountain will now be open for a bonus weekend from May 2 to May 5.Want to keep up with the best stories and photos in skiing? Subscribe to the new Powder To The People newsletter for weekly updates.View this post on InstagramA post shared by Arizona Snowbowl (@azsno
  
  Read more

• Colorado Ski Areas Welcome Spring With Fresh Powder

  18-04-2025 22:36 via powder.com
  
  Spring might have sprung in some places, but Colorado ski areas are getting another dose of winter. Want to keep up with the best stories and photos in skiing? Subscribe to the new Powder To The People newsletter for weekly updates.
  Even though many resorts are closed now, quite a few of them picked up 6-plus inches of snow over the last 24 hours and have more on the way. A-Basin, which is still open, got the bulk of the goods with 7 inches of fresh overnight on Thursday, April 17. Sun
  
  Read more

• Snow in Hawaii? Winter Weather Advisory in Effect for the Big Island

  18-04-2025 22:13 via powder.com
  
  Snow? In Hawaii? It’s not as wild as it might sound.The National Weather Service has issued a winter weather advisory through Saturday morning for the Big Island’s summits.
   The advisory, which expires at 6 a.m., notes that up to two inches of snow could accumulate. During the period, the National Weather Service warned that travel could be very difficult, with blowing snow reducing visibility.Want to keep up with the best stories and photos in skiing? Subscribe to the new Powde
  
  Read more

• Why an Aussie Ski Area Put Waste Bins on a Chairlift

  18-04-2025 21:27 via powder.com
  
  As the North American ski season winds down, the southern hemisphere is just gearing up for winter. In fact, mountain ops teams have spent a lot of the summer gearing up and doing maintenance to make sure the mountain is ready to go when the first flakes fall. Australia's Mt. Buller has been doing some routine lift testing and giving the public an inside look into some of their processes.
  Every five years, the mountain does a full load test on their chairs to ensure they're running properly
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Top Skiers Dazzle in Historic Alaskan Competition

  18-04-2025 19:35 via powder.com
  
  Before we get started, a quick note—this article includes the results from the first-ever Natural Selection Tour Ski event. If you're hoping to avoid spoilers and would rather watch the replay, click here.The world finally got to see the ski event that's had us guessing for months now. Although the actual contest took place a few weeks back on an incredible Alaskan face, the athletes and the Natural Selection team have done an incredible job keeping it under wraps. In a multi-hour show tha
  
  Read more

• How To Set Up Your Bike To Go Skiing

  18-04-2025 18:01 via powder.com
  
  As snowline starts creeping higher and higher into the mountains, our local resorts close, and our beloved powder stashes transition into springtime corn, accessing skiing can get harder and harder to do. Luckily, you might have an ace up your sleeve sitting right there in your garage. Rig that bike up and pedal to go skiing!We’re all about multi-sport days here at POWDER, especially in the spring when longer daylight hours and warmer temps mean more time for activities. However, rigging y
  
  Read more

• Midwest Ski Area Stores Heaps of Snow for Fall Ski Session

  18-04-2025 17:22 via powder.com
  
  This ski season might be over at Trollhaugen, a small ski area in Wisconsin, but locals are already thinking about the next one.
   In an effort to host an October festival called Open Haugen that includes a rail jam with real snow, the ski area's crew has harvested and stashed an enormous pile of the white stuff. All summer this stash will live beneath insulated tarps before being unveiled when October arrives so skiers can catch a pre-season taste of winter.Want to keep up with the best sto
  
  Read more

• How To Store Your Ski Gear for the Summer

  18-04-2025 13:00 via powder.com
  
  It's hard to say (or admit) when our last turns of the season will be, but for those of us who don't plan on making any volcano pilgrimages or trips to Chile, we'll have to store our gear eventually. Even if it's just for a few months, it's well worth storing your gear thoughtfully and correctly to make sure you don't have to do tons of maintenance next season or buy something new because it was stored improperly. Here are the best end-of-season practices to make sure your ski gear stays in tip-
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

Follow @Skiing_nws_USA on Twitter!