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• Vail Resorts Explains Why Skier Visits Declined This Season

  24-04-2025 22:18 via powder.com
  
  Vail Resorts released a handful of season-to-date business metrics on April 24, 2025, and they're reporting a bit of a decline in skier visits. While the report released by Vail contained several interesting stats, perhaps the most notable was that across North American resorts, the company saw a 3.1% decline in skier visits compared to the previous season. However, despite the decline in actual visits, the season-to-date total lift ticket revenue, including a portion of season pass sales,
  
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• Black Diamond To Raise Prices 15-25% Due To Trump Tariffs

  24-04-2025 20:16 via powder.com
  
  It's no surprise that many of the products we use every day for skiing, climbing, mountain biking, and other sports are manufactured outside of the United States. For years, the outdoor industry's supply chain for everything from skis, to carabiners, to fabrics for apparel and accessories has relied on materials and factories located overseas. With recent announcements by the Trump Administration to levy steep tariffs on foreign products, the question on who would bear the cost of these has rema
  
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• California Ski Area Wants You To Determine Its Closing Date

  24-04-2025 19:42 via powder.com
  
  The reasons behind ski resort closing dates vary. Sometimes, they’re triggered by pending chairlift construction projects. Other times, they’re chosen to account for the seasonal workforce. In rare cases, the Forest Service requires seasonal closures due to wildlife considerations.Another factor is demand. If no one is showing up to ski in the spring, why bother spending the money to run the lifts?That’s the question Donner Ski Ranch, a small ski area in the Lake Tahoe, Califor
  
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• Colorado's Loveland Ski Area to Retire Oldest Chairlift

  24-04-2025 19:32 via powder.com
  
  Loveland Ski area's oldest chairlift is officially being retired. On April 23, 2025 the USDA Forest Service granted Loveland the official final approval to move forward with the replacement of Lift 7. The original Lift 7, installed in 1982, was a fixed grip double chair that served the ski area for the last 42 years. The new Lift 7 will be upgraded to a Leitner-Poma fixed-grip quad chair. The new chair marks Loveland's investment in their guest experience, specifically for new skiers a
  
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• Nearly $10,000 Worth of Ski Gear Stolen in BC Parking Lot

  24-04-2025 18:49 via powder.com
  
  Is there anything worse than losing a significant chunk of your kit to thieves?A thief made off with nearly CAD $10,000 worth of backcountry skiing equipment and other belongings the night of Saturday, April 11, in Prince George, British Columbia, according to a release published by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) this week.The theft took place in the parking lot of a hotel on the 2900-block of Recplace Drive, police said.“Unfortunately, there is no available video surveillance fr
  
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• Warm Temps Forecasted for Next Ski Season in New England

  24-04-2025 18:46 via powder.com
  
  Ski resorts across the United States and Canada are still open for Winter 24/25, but here at POWDER, we're already thinking about next season.The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) publishes rolling three month temperature and precipitation outlooks to provide long-range weather guidance. We're seven or eight months out from next ski season starting (depending on the location), but let's take a look at NOAA's long-range outlooks for the months of December 2025, January 2026,
  
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• Free Lift Tickets Available for Sunday River's Closing Day

  24-04-2025 16:42 via powder.com
  
  The Maine ski season is sadly coming to an end.One major resort in the state, Sunday River, has announced that it will close on Sunday, April 27. Another, Sugarloaf, might wrap up ski operations this coming weekend, too, but left the option for a bit more bonus skiing on Saturday, May 3, weather dependent.On Sunday, Sunday River’s final day of operations, lift tickets are—get this—free. That’s right. For the price of exactly zero dollars, you, too, can soak in all the clo
  
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• Vivian Bruchez Shared His Steep Skiing Technique Secrets With Me

  24-04-2025 14:12 via powder.com
  
  It’s been said time and again that skiing equates to an art form. While that’s definitely a cliché, and as writers we try to avoid those, it’s one that I happen to agree with. Whether you’re talking about the floating freedom of powder skiing, the pure athleticism and originality required for park skiing, or–perhaps most of all–the finesse, precision and mental fortitude demanded by painting lines on the steepest slopes in the world, skiing is an expres
  
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• The Top 6 Ski Towns for Whitewater Rafting

  24-04-2025 12:58 via powder.com
  
  As skiers, we spend all winter looking at the forecast, keeping track of how many inches of snow our mountain has gotten, where the snowpack lies in terms of annual average, and so on. But when the mountains warm up and the snow starts to melt, where does it all go? The short answer is, it depends, but a good chunk of it melts into nearby rivers and streams. Oftentimes, where there are big mountains, there are also steep rivers, and when all that runoff hits them, it makes for my personal favori
  
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