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• 5 Feet of Snow Still Covering Michigan Ski Area’s “Glacier”

  16-05-2025 22:39 via powder.com
  
  End-of-season who?At Boyne Mountain Resort, Michigan, five feet of snow still remains on the Victor “glacier,” a portion of the ski area where the operations team has been stashing fresh flakes to keep the ski season going as long as possible.“Victor's impressive snow pile is STILL HERE while the rest of Michigan is practically in flip-flops!” read an update published on Boyne Mountain Resort’s snow report earlier this week. The ski resort has shifted to a weekends-
  
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• Utah Expecting Up To 12 Inches of Snow From Cold Spring Storm

  16-05-2025 22:33 via powder.com
  
  A cold front barrels into Utah Saturday night, May 17, 2025, flipping rain to snow above roughly 7000 ft. and unloading up to a foot of new powder on the central Wasatch by Sunday afternoon, May 18th.Colorado and the Pacific Northwest score only light refreshes, while a sharp warm-up mid-week ends the party.
  Bottom line: focus your storm chase on the Wasatch for Sunday laps, then expect conditions to wind down fast.ECMWF snowfall for Utah through Monday night, May 19, 2025.Photo: Weath
  
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• Two New Chairlifts Coming to Non-Profit Oregon Ski Area

  16-05-2025 19:34 via powder.com
  
  Mt. Ashland Ski Area, Oregon, has confirmed that it will replace two of its aging chairlifts, the Ariel and Windsor, starting in spring 2026.These lifts, according to the ski area, were installed over 45 years ago and have served the mountain well. However, over time, they’ve become “costly to maintain and less efficient by modern standards,” Mt. Ashland wrote in a blog post about the upcoming lift project.The Ariel and Windsor’s replacements will be fixed-grip triple cha
  
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• Arapahoe Basin's Proposal To Build Two Gondolas Is Turning Heads

  16-05-2025 19:28 via powder.com
  
  A surprising press release hit my inbox earlier this morning, May 16, 2025.
  The subject read, "A-Basin Master Development Plan", and the contents of the 122-page document that was attached had my head spinning. Arapahoe Basin Ski Area, the once independently-owned, expert-oriented haunt has big plans for expansion under new owner Alterra Mountain Company.The 122-page document covers a laundry list of subjects, but the lift expansions, upgrades, and new terrain will be of most interest
  
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• Mikaela Shiffrin Wants to Host SNL, Teases "Secret" Project

  16-05-2025 17:17 via powder.com
  
  The greatest alpine ski racer of all-time is multi-talented, imagine that.Mikaela Shiffrin has been entertaining her social media followers with a slew of posts this spring. The majority of which show glimpses from her offseason training regiment at places like Copper Mountain, Colorado, and various lifestyle posts like beachside hangs, announcing her ownership of a new women's professional soccer team in Denver, and sitting court side at a Nuggets game.There are two posts, however, that have st
  
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