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• Élise Poncet Sets Staggering New Record on Mont Blanc

  20-05-2025 22:47 via powder.com
  
  Near the top of the almost 16,000 foot tall Mont Blanc, the winds hit, howling around 40 miles per hour. But French mountain athlete Élise Poncet didn’t want to turn back and be forced to face Mont Blanc again, so she pressed onwards.After reaching the summit and clicking into her skis, Poncet sped down to a church in Chamonix in just over an hour, finishing the push on foot when the snowline stopped. Her trip on Friday, May 16, 2024, took 6 hours, 54 minutes, 47 seconds in total. A
  
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• Athlete to Marketer: Jake Doan Enters a New Role at 4FRNT Skis

  20-05-2025 21:57 via powder.com
  
  A new hire at a ski brand isn’t always the most newsworthy thing happening in the ski industry, but then again, 4FRNT is no ordinary brand.
  Since its inception 2002, 4FRNT has been a brand whose core values are built around community. The brand’s roots come from people like their founder, Matt Sterbenz, who wanted to build a ski that appealed to someone like him, a die hard skier.
  The people helping to design these skis would end up being some of the world’s best skiers, like E
  
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• New Chairlift Named After 1979 Robert Redford Film at Utah Ski Resort

  20-05-2025 20:56 via powder.com
  
  A new chairlift and more than 150 acres of additional terrain are coming to Sundance Mountain Resort, Utah, according to a press release published on May 20, 2025.The expansion revolves around the Electric Horseman Express, a high-speed quad Doppelmayr lift that will start near the base of the Wildwood Lift and deposit skiers at the top of Red’s Lift, covering 1,850 vertical feet in six minutes and unlocking another way to session runs in Sundance’s “back mountain” area.&
  
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• Ski Portillo Buried by First Big Snowfall of the Year

  20-05-2025 19:49 via powder.com
  
  Dust off your boots and wax your skis, southern hemisphere skiers, the faucets are on in South America! Chile's famous Ski Portillo woke up to 16" of snow on May 19, 2025 and there's more on the way. 20 inches of snow has accumulated at the resort in the last five days and they should see at least another six inches in the next week.The current storm is expected to linger through Tuesday morning before another, weaker storm arrives Tuesday night through Wednesday.
  Along with Portillo, Valle
  
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• Washington Ski Resort Donates $100K+ to Avalanche Forecasters

  20-05-2025 19:40 via powder.com
  
  In a recent chairlift auction, Crystal Mountain, Washington, raised $116,000 for the Northwest Avalanche Center (NWAC).“We can’t thank this team enough for the data they provide to keep us safe and in the know,” Crystal Mountain wrote in a social media post.The ski resort likely couldn’t have chosen an organization more favored by skiers.
  Established in 1975, NWAC is one of North America's premier avalanche centers. Its forecast zones stretch from northern Oregon and thro
  
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• Klaus Obermeyer Was Once Shot by Nazis As He Fled on Skis

  20-05-2025 17:40 via powder.com
  
  Klaus Obermeyer is perhaps the most influential man in the history of skiing.
  Known for being on the ground floor of the bustling Aspen, Colorado ski scene during the 1960s, and for inventing a laundry list of gear like mirrored sunglasses and the modern two-pronged ski brake, Obermeyer is one of skiing's most important and treasured pioneers.Still skiing on occasion at the age of 105, Obermeyer recently made an impressive and lengthy appearance on The Powell Movement podcast. Host Mike Powell d
  
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• Is ATK Making A New Telemark Binding?

  20-05-2025 17:00 via powder.com
  
  It doesn’t take much for telemark skiers to get excited. Mix a threadbare if devoted nucleus of enthusiasts with a gear paradigm that rarely sees new releases and you get a telemark populace teetering on the edge of their seats for even a hint of something new. Throw in the fact that the sport seems to be rising–and that manufacturers have answered with fresh models, like Scarpa’s rethought TX Pro and TX Comp boots, and 22 Design’s brake-retracting, resort charging Bandit
  
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• Tahoe Local Proves Palisades' Spring Park Is Perfect

  20-05-2025 14:02 via powder.com
  
  Rumor has it spring is one of the best times of year for park laps at Palisades Tahoe, California. With only a couple weeks left in the season, some of the area's best freeskiers took advantage of soft spring conditions in the park over the weekend. Tahoe area local, 17-year-old Zeb Schreiber, spent the weekend in the park taking advantage of some of the last few lift-accessed days of the season and landed his first-ever double cork 1080. Schreiber is the youngest member of the Blizzard-Tec
  
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• Colorado's Gay Basin Celebration Looked Like a Blast

  20-05-2025 12:23 via powder.com
  
  Pride Month may be a few weeks away, but that didn’t stop Arapahoe Basin, Colorado, from celebrating LGBTQIA+ skiers and snowboarders this past weekend during a two-day event aptly titled “Gay Basin.”On Saturday, May 17, 2025, the festivities kicked off with a parade from the summit to Black Mountain Lodge, followed by a DJ set from Don Fuego at 11:00 a.m. That evening, Outer Range Brewing hosted the Gay Basin Afterparty, which featured drag bingo and another DJ set. Outer Rang
  
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