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• Ski Season, With a Catch, Is About To Begin at Copper Mountain, Colorado

  05-06-2025 22:55 via powder.com
  
  The lift-served ski season in North America is, for the most part, almost over. But in Colorado, the foot-powered summer freestyle season is about to begin at Copper Mountain.
  The ski resort’s hike park, which includes a selection of freestyle features, is set to open on Friday, June 6, 2025.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 Woodward Copper (@woodwar
  
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• 4 Ski Resorts Are Still Open—Here's How They're Fairing

  05-06-2025 21:22 via powder.com
  
  And then there were four.As the 2024-2025 ski season comes to a close, a small handful of North American ski resorts are still offering outdoor, lift-served skiing (a fifth “mountain,” Big SNOW American Dream, offers indoor skiing year-round).These are the resorts that, for the time being, are still spinning their lifts.Want to keep up with the best stories and photos in skiing? Subscribe to the new Powder To The People newsletter for weekly updates.Mountain views from Timberline's i
  
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• Sammy Carlson's Best Films Are Back on YouTube After Brief Hiatus

  05-06-2025 21:14 via powder.com
  
  Gather 'round, POWDER readers, it's story time. A couple weeks ago, I tasked myself with delivering a selection of my favorite music in ski films as an excuse to watch my favorite ski film while I was working. By sheer coincidence, a number of those songs happen to appear in either films that feature Sammy Carlson, or are in his own personal projects. The man has great taste in music. Upon going to search for some of these projects, I was utterly dismayed that I couldn't find some of t
  
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• Body of Ski Mountaineer Killed in Fall on North America’s Tallest Peak Recovered

  05-06-2025 19:21 via powder.com
  
  The body of the ski mountaineer reported missing on the towering Alaskan peak Denali earlier this week has been located and recovered, according to the National Park Service.The mountaineer, identified as Alex Chiu, 41, by the National Park Service, died after falling 3,000 feet from Denali’s West Buttress route onto Peters Glacier, an exposed face of rock and seracs.His climbing partners reported that he had fallen and disappeared on Monday, June 2, 2025, the National Park Service said.An
  
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• These 10 Retro ’70s Ski Ads From POWDER Are Pure Gold

  05-06-2025 17:09 via powder.com
  
  To ski is to buy. You can’t visit the mountains, let alone ride a chairlift, without plunking down some cash.
  It makes sense, then, that as POWDER gathered steam in the 1970s, advertisers took notice. From beer companies to outerwear companies, these brands carved miniature fiefdoms amongst the magazine’s pages in the hopes that skiers might notice their wares and think to themselves, “I should buy that.”
  These advertisements, as you might expect, looked nothing like thei
  
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• How Do The Salomon QST Blank & blackcrows Corvus Compare?

  05-06-2025 17:00 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.Over the past few seasons, freeride skis have seen quite a resurgence in popularity. Things have gotten pretty damn good on the construction and shaping front for skis around the 110mm-underfoot mark, making this category an excellent choice for everyday skiing at most resorts west of the Mississippi, especially if you like to venture off-piste. While they can certainly
  
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• Televised Ski Events Suck In America— Global Survey Aims to Find Solution

  05-06-2025 16:48 via powder.com
  
  The International Ski and Snowboard Federation (FIS) recently launched a user survey to help inform how, when, and where the public consumes media around competitive skiing. In the United States, however, it's becoming increasingly more difficult to consume FIS content. Americans must jump through livestream loopholes, subscribe to a variety of platforms, or simply wait until the highlights are uploaded to YouTube. This is the case across freestyle ski events, ski racing, and other discipli
  
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• Maine's Newest Lift Served Bike Park Is Opening at Its Largest Ski Resort

  05-06-2025 12:58 via powder.com
  
  This summer, Sugarloaf is bringing more lift accessed biking to Maine. Sugarloaf's brand new bike park opens July 4, 2025 with a series of downhill trails of all abilities to appeal to all types of riders. The bike park will be serviced by the Whiffletree Express lift which will take riders to the top of the park before riding down more than 1,000 feet of vertical drop.
  Sugarloaf's bike park will debut with brand new trails like Emerald, a machine-cut flow trail with three miles of jumps, r
  
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