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• Are We About To See Meta AI Integration Into Ski Goggles?

  17-06-2025 22:50 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.If you use any Meta product (Instagram, Facebook, or WhatsApp), you might have been seeing heavy advertisement for Meta glasses lately. Perhaps you even already own a pair of the Meta x Ray-Ban Wayfarer or Skyler glasses. These AI-powered "smart" glasses offer built-in cameras, audio functions, and connect with a mobile app to allow for all kinds of virtual reality and a
  
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• Electric Skis Tested on Challenging Colorado Spring Snow

  17-06-2025 21:03 via powder.com
  
  Soft spring snow is lauded by skiers everywhere. It’s approachable, fun, and, when the conditions align, almost as good as powder.But for Frigid Dynamics, the company behind the battery-powered ski, the Vipera, late-season snow is more than a foil for good times—it presented an opportunity to see how its product might perform in May, June, or beyond.This week, the company uploaded a video of a springtime test in Colorado. Tap or click below to watch the electric skis zip across corn
  
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• Reigning Halfpipe Gold Medalist Unexpectedly Pulls out of 2026 Olympics

  17-06-2025 20:56 via powder.com
  
  Two-time Olympic halfpipe medalist and New Zealand skier Nico Porteous won’t make a push for the upcoming Milano-Cortina Winter Games or continuing competing in the halfpipe.Porteous won Gold in Men's Ski Halfpipe at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics.He isn’t retiring—instead, the young phenom now hopes to focus on other aspects of his skiing career, like filming and product development.“I’ve loved representing New Zealand. Wearing the fern and competing for my count
  
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• Eileen Gu Talks Knowing Yourself, Business, and Fragile Male Egos on Podcast

  17-06-2025 20:52 via powder.com
  
  In case you missed it, we're big Eileen Gu fans over here. Aside from being one of the best skiers we've ever seen, Gu has cemented a spot in our hearts as an icon for female skiers. Gu recently appeared on an episode of The Burnouts podcast. The show is hosted by Stanford alumni Phoebe Gates and Sophia Kianni, whom Gu met while attending the university. Having founded their own company, Gates and Kianni's show has largely featured successful businesswomen like Kris Jenner and Chelsea Handl
  
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• I'll Never Forget the First Car I Drove To Go Skiing

  17-06-2025 19:20 via powder.com
  
  I rose to a loud, earth-shaking rumble. Had the Juan de Fuca tectonic plate finally slid? Was I about to get a real-life lesson in geology? I raced to my parents’ room, encountering a different, albeit much less dramatic, disaster.
  From there, my memory becomes foggy, dissolving into brief, dim flashes. Loud winds and the night sky. A police spotlight trained on the dangling remnants of the tree that, after being hit by a mighty gust, had snapped and knocked the chimney of our house clean
  
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• How Have Ski Boots Evolved? A Short History

  17-06-2025 18:38 via powder.com
  
  Ski boots are the most important piece of equipment we take on the mountain every day, but how much do you know about the history of ski footwear? Here's a short history of what skiers have been putting on their feet for the last 8000 years.This piece is part of POWDER's Summer of Ski Nostalgia content series. Stay tuned in daily for more nostalgic articles, and keep an eye out for the upcoming Summer of Ski Nostalgia badge to identify future content.You can also view all of POWDER's summer nost
  
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• Utah Ski Resort Calls Out Reality TV Show for Embarrassing Mistake

  17-06-2025 17:25 via powder.com
  
  There are just three ski resorts in the United States that still ban the use of snowboards: Mad River Glen, VT; Alta Ski Area, UT; and Deer Valley Resort, UT.All three seem to have no intention of allowing snowboarding in the future, but the latter has adopted one of the most staunch positions against the sport.Deer Valley's persistence to remain a ski-only mountain has something to do with ritzy skiers and their disdain for the young whipper-snappers that skid by them on snowboards, but that co
  
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• Why Aren't We Electing Skiers as Politicians?

  17-06-2025 17:00 via powder.com
  
  Looking to the outdoors–out the proverbial window–Hornsby long ago told us to watch out.Look out for the back room boys that say the smoke is going to blow away. Look out for the men who say it’s okay, sitting in a building far away.Eerily prescient, his words are as pressing as ever for anyone concerned with the preservation of our world outside of golf cart paths and boys club boardrooms. Miles from any BLM office, and at a remarkably troubling clip, a paradigm shift in envir
  
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• June Turns on Mount Marcy

  17-06-2025 14:40 via nyskiblog.com
  For many skiers, the season in New York ends sometime in March. For those a bit more passionate about the sport, some may make the pilgrimage to the more elevated resorts such as Whiteface or Gore, which usually spin their lifts until around the second half of April. And, for those who just can’t let the amazing NY season end, we find a way to continue making turns through May and even into June (if you’re crazy enough). Whiteface’s Skyward, » Read More »
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• Sun and Slush: Photos from Mammoth Mountain's Closing Day Looked Top Notch

  17-06-2025 13:56 via powder.com
  
  That’s all, folks.
  Under the late spring sun, Mammoth Mountain, California, served up the season’s final turns on Sunday, June 15, 2025. From now on until next fall, the ski resort in Mammoth Lakes will instead focus on an array of more seasonally appropriate activities, like biking and golfing.But it doesn’t hurt to remember what once was. Here’s a look at Mammoth Mountain’s closing day shenanigans, complete with slush, donuts, and one woolly mammoth.Want to keep u
  
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• $9 Million Investment Revealed by Canadian Ski Resort

  17-06-2025 12:01 via powder.com
  
  Canada's Big White Ski Resort is dropping some serious cash on resort updates this summer. As a part of the resort's long-term plans to modernize services, boost sustainability, and elevate their guest experience, Big White has invested $9.4M CAD (~6.9M USD) in infrastructure and operations updates. “All of these enhancements play a role in our long-term vision for modernization. They’re strategic investments that support how we want Big White to grow — smarter, more
  
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