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• Industry Vet Promoted To CEO at Taos Ski Valley

  13-06-2025 21:40 via powder.com
  
  Taos Ski Valley, New Mexico, has named John Kelly as its new CEO, while the current top executive, David Norden, will transition into serving as the ski resort’s chairman of the board.
  The resort made the announcement via press release on Friday, June 13, 2025.Kelly has been with Taos Ski Valley since 2015, most recently working as its chief operating officer. During his tenure with the ski resort, he has overseen on-mountain and base area operations as well as skier services. He also mana
  
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• Save The Dates— 25/26 Domestic World Cup Calendar Released

  13-06-2025 20:38 via powder.com
  
  Mark your calendars, American ski fans. In collaboration with the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Team, FIS has released the dates for ten FIS World Cup events that will take place in the U.S. during the Winter 2025/26 season. Every U.S. based World Cup event this season, with the exception of cross country races, will serve as qualifiers for the 2026 Milano-Cortina Winter Olympic Games, which take place in February 2026. In the alpine discipline, the 2025/26 World Cup season begins Thanks
  
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• Beartooth Basin Ski Area Confirms Early Closing Date

  13-06-2025 20:34 via powder.com
  
  Beartooth Basin, Wyoming—the unique summer-only ski area—has confirmed that it plans to end its season only a few weeks after it started. The final day of operations will be Sunday, June 15, 2025The ski area opened for the season in late May, welcoming skiers and snowboarders back after a hiatus last year caused by low snowfall.
  The conditions over the past few days have looked all time, delivering plenty of sun and slush. Earlier this week, we checked in with professional skier Vero
  
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• Lindsey Vonn Reveals Her Top 6 Offseason Exercises

  13-06-2025 20:31 via powder.com
  
  It's no surprise that one of the most successful ski racers of all time has a pretty dialed gym routine.When you've dealt with injuries like Lindsey Vonn has, the whole PT program becomes pretty necessary. The 40-year-old (coulda fooled me!) went from a partial knee replacement to a second place podium in Super-G at the World Cup Finals in Sun Valley earlier this year, so clearly she's doing something right. Lucky for the rest of us mere mortals, Vonn has blessed us with one of her favorite
  
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• Cody Townsend Thinks Your Boots Are Too Stiff

  13-06-2025 16:07 via powder.com
  
  Skiers like to blame their shortcomings on their gear. Day in and day out, we say things like my skis are too heavy, my bindings pre-released, or my boots aren’t stiff enough. Sure, we can achieve performance gains by choosing better gear–I mean heck, that’s kind of my job here at POWDER–but in the end, those gains are usually marginal at best. In fact, we’re likely all complicit in the biggest sin any athlete (yes, all skiers are athletes) can make: overestima
  
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• Major Step In Gondola Replacement Completed at Park City

  13-06-2025 15:58 via powder.com
  
  Park City Mountain Resort is currently in the process of replacing the Sunrise chairlift with a new gondola. The brand-new Sunrise Gondola will take guests from the base of the Canyons Village at Park City Mountain Resort to Red Pine Lodge at mid-mountain. Park City posted a video to their social media of the Gondola's new towers being placed via helicopter on June 12, marking a vital step in Phase 3 of the project. Tap or click to watch the video below.Want to keep up with the be
  
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• Ski Season Starts Today at Chile's Largest Ski Resort

  13-06-2025 14:29 via powder.com
  
  There's nothing unlucky about this Friday the 13th for skiers in Chile. One of the southern hemisphere's best resorts is opening for the season a whole week early. Valle Nevado will start spinning lifts for the season on June 13, 2025, marking the official beginning of ski season for Chilean resorts. The ski area had originally planned to open on June 20th, but after already receiving more than a foot of early season snowfall, the ropes are dropping early.
  Opening day conditions should be e
  
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• No Snow No Problem—Jesper Tjäder Rides CopenHill

  13-06-2025 13:01 via powder.com
  
  It’s June. It’s starting to get hot. Skiing, for many of us, is slowly dissolving into the realm of distant memory.
  There’s one surefire way to keep the sport fresh in our minds, though, and that’s through tracking the slow trickle of ski edits being released online this time of year from the likes of freestyle mastermind Jesper Tjäder.Tjäder, in a video that fits the mostly snowless theme of this month, just released old footage documenting his journey to Copen
  
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• Skier Visits Decreased in Utah Last Season

  13-06-2025 12:57 via powder.com
  
  Ski Utah has released its visitation numbers for the 2024/25 ski season to the public. As of June 11, 2025, the state's 15 ski resorts recorded a combined 6,503,635 visits throughout the winter 2024/25 ski season. This number comes in 3.6% lower than the previous season, but still sits as the third-highest number of skier visits in the state's history. It's also a 3.3% increase over Utah's five-year average. The 2022/23 season still holds the record for Utah skier visits at 7.1 million
  
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