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• Earth Day Has Failed

  22-04-2025 23:57 via powder.com
  
  After witnessing a massive oil spill in Santa Barbara in 1969, Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson began hatching the idea for what would become known as the world's first 'Earth Day.'The first Earth Day was celebrated on April 22, 1970. It's estimated that over 20 million Americans (10% of the country's population at the time) took to the streets to protest and demonstrate against the impacts of 150 years of industrial development. The movement was powerful, and many Americans were united on the m
  
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• The 6 Best Ski Resorts Still Open From Coast to Coast

  22-04-2025 21:34 via powder.com
  
  Spring has sprung across the country, but lucky for those of us not ready to put our ski boots away, there are a handful of resorts still open across the country.
  Whether you're looking for prime PNW volcano skiing, slushy California spring laps, or those unpredictable spring pow days in Colorado, you've got options. Here are a few resorts whose lifts aren't quite done spinning for the season just yet.Want to keep up with the best stories and photos in skiing? Subscribe to the new Powder To The
  
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• Border Crossing Ski Resort Extends Season to Delight of Locals

  22-04-2025 21:05 via powder.com
  
  Don’t put the ski gear away quite yet—Lookout Pass, a ski area that straddles the edges of Idaho and Montana, has opted to keep the ski season going a little longer.On social media, the ski area announced that it would open for an additional weekend, spinning the lifts on April 26 and April 27, 2025.
   And what an announcement the video was—we never thought we’d see Peter Griffin grace a ski area’s Instagram page, but it is 2025, and apparently, anything’s
  
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• British Man Runs Paris Marathon in Ski Boots

  22-04-2025 19:49 via powder.com
  
  As if running a marathon wasn't difficult enough, a British man decided to make it just a little bit harder by running one in ski boots. Last week, Mike Humphreys decided to take on the Paris Marathon in a pair of what look like Tecnica Cochise 130 ski boots.
  The Paris Marathon winds 42.195 kilometers, or 26.2 miles, from the Champs-Élysées into a loop around the Palais Garnier before hitting the Place de Bastille, continuing along the Seine, and ending on Avenue Koch.Even vie
  
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• Skiing Has a New $2,600 Pass With Unlimited Access to Big Sky and More

  22-04-2025 19:35 via powder.com
  
  Alterra Mountain Company, Mountain Capital Partners, Vail Resorts and now, Boyne Resorts, has debuted its own mountain-portfolio-based multi-pass.Dubbed the Boyne Passport, it offers unlimited access to every Boyne Resort ski area. It also features unlimited access to the Lone Peak Tram at Big Sky, Montana.
  The pass, dubbed the Boyne Passport, is available for $2,600. Early lift access is included at Big Sky, Sunday River, Sugarloaf, Boyne Mountain, and The Highlands with the Passport. There are
  
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• Major Spring Skiing Event Cancelled In Sweden

  22-04-2025 18:51 via powder.com
  
  The iconic annual freestyle park jam, Kimbo Sessions, has been cancelled for 2025. The 2025 event would have marked the 10-year anniversary and was slated to take place from May 4-11, 2025.Kimbo Sessions founder, Kim Boberg announced the cancellation of the event in a social post on April 22, 2025 citing lack of snow. Warm spring temperatures have meant not enough snow to run the event and has forced the Swedish host ski resort of Kläppen to end their spring season early. Due to the ca
  
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• A Telemark Skier Has Their Faith Shaken

  22-04-2025 17:00 via powder.com
  
  I have something to come clean on. And it’s a funny little thing to admit for this monogamous free-heel skier with a dedicated telemark column of all things. This was the first season since I picked up the genuflecting technique that I questioned my faith in telemark skiing.While it hasn’t amounted to a full blown identity crisis, this soul-searching on what I had long regarded as The Turn of Turns has surprised this devout free-heeler. Perhaps naively, I had thought: “This was
  
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• Insta360 Drops New AI-Powered X5 Action Cam

  22-04-2025 15:03 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.A decade ago, action sports filming was dominated by one brand, arguably the inventor of the POV "action cam." That brand was GoPro, and pretty much anyone who ever spent time at a ski area, a mountain bike trail, or a beach had likely seen one. A few years ago, a second player entered the game that challenged the status quo: Insta360. The brand out of Shenzhen, China, t
  
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• Flower Skate Shop Rail Jam 2025

  22-04-2025 14:10 via nyskiblog.com
  In a sea of brown on the Tug Hill, a small slushy island of snow remained. Steel statues protruded from the snow, monuments to the season passed. Delicately arranged by the guys at Flower Skate Shop and Nick at Snow Ridge, the features were ready. This oasis was set to provide one last chance for park riders to slide some steel. For the 5th year in a row, riders came from far and wide for the end of season rail » Read More »
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• The 6 Best Summer Jobs for Skiers

  22-04-2025 13:30 via powder.com
  
  Ski season coming to an end might not just mean the end of your favorite sport but also the end of your seasonal job.If you've been working at a ski area over the winter, spring can mean it's time to find a new way to make some money to pay that ski town rent. Luckily, you're not alone, and there are tons of folks out there who work seasonally year after year.Whether you're hoping to keep working outside or take a job that gives your body a bit of a break from whatever you've put it through over
  
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• New York Ski Area Says Goodbye to Two Chairlifts

  22-04-2025 13:00 via powder.com
  
  The ski season at Whiteface Mountain, New York, concluded Sunday, as did the operating tenures of two aging two-seater chairlifts at the resort—the Mountain Run and Little Whiteface.This summer, they’re both scheduled to be dismantled and replaced by one double Skytrac chairlift that Whiteface general manager Aaron Kellett told the Adirondack Daily Enterprise will likely be ready to operate by the beginning of next ski season.Want to keep up with the best stories and photos in skiing
  
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