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• Mt. Bachelor's Bike Park Is Open Despite Walls of Snow—Conditions Report

  27-06-2025 22:32 via powder.com
  
  Mt. Bachelor's downhill bike park opened for the season on Thursday, June 26, 2025, and if you're familiar with how big of a bike town Bend, Oregon is, you know this is huge for the program. A couple buds and I headed up to ride opening day on Thursday afternoon. From Century Drive, the mountain still looks vaguely skiable, and we joked how wild it was that we were going to ride bikes. The Mountain Ops teams at Bachelor has been hard at work digging the bike trails out from the more than 40
  
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• Mt. Ashland Shares Sneak Peek of New Ski Trail

  27-06-2025 19:33 via powder.com
  
  Progress is being made on a new ski trail, called Bumblebee, at Mt. Ashland Ski Area, Oregon.
  The ski area announced earlier this week that phase one of the trail had been completed, writing in a social media post, that it "improves access, eases congestion, and adds more variety to our beginner terrain.”The new trail will be served by a recent addition to Mt. Ashland’s lift fleet—the Lithia chair. Opened last winter, the chairlift covers easier terrain that, in the past, had b
  
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• Big Bear Caught Scratching Against Idle Ski Chairlift

  27-06-2025 17:59 via powder.com
  
  It's summer in Lake Tahoe, which means the following are in season: bikes, boats, and bears.Many of Lake Tahoe's bears have become nearly domesticated due to the large influx of tourism and residents that flock to the region during the warmer months, but there are still plenty of big bears lurking high up in the Sierra.Sierra-at-Tahoe, one of the region's popular ski resorts, popped on social media on Thursday, June 26, 2025, to share a funny video presumably captured on one of the resort's vari
  
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• Opinion: AI Judges Will Ruin Skiing and Action Sports

  27-06-2025 14:22 via powder.com
  
  X Games CEO Jeremy Bloom made a significant announcement this week that seemed to slip under the radar.The company known for hosting the best action sports athletes in the world, including skiers and snowboarders in the beloved Winter X Games, is taking a big swing with its new AI software that's been created to, "bring unprecedented fairness, transparency, and immersion to the global sports ecosystem," according to a press release.OWL AI, now its own company following Bloom's announcement, was
  
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