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• Whistler Bike Park Poachers Ruin Fan Favorite Trail, Injure Staff

  25-07-2025 20:11 via powder.com
  
  Poaching closed ski area trails in the winter is dangerous, disrespectful, and a generally stupid thing to do at best. Ski patrollers work hard to evaluate and properly close terrain to keep the public safe from dangerous avalanche conditions, unseen hazards, poor coverage, and a number of other things. While you won't risk getting in an avalanche or destroying your skis (and body) on uncovered rocks in the summer, poaching closed bike trails is just as bad an idea. For one, bike park trail
  
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• Summer Survival Guide: Best Bike Park Gear of 2025

  25-07-2025 18:13 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.We get it: summer can be tough for skiers. Those winter withdrawal symptoms lead to summer survival instincts as we spend more and more days away from our skis, miserably melting in the heat of those long summer days. Luckily, there are a few coping mechanisms we have in our tool kit, like spending days on the river, climbing or running in the high alpine, and ripping si
  
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• Beloved BC Cat Skiing Operation Has a New "Dirtbag" Owner

  25-07-2025 16:59 via powder.com
  
  Today, July 25, 2025, the Aspen-based adventure travel company Heli announced that it has purchased Mustang Powder, a family-owned and operated catskiing outfit in British Columbia’s Monashee Mountains near Revelstoke. The price of the sale isn’t public.It’s the third backcountry skiing operation acquisition for Heli and its co-founders, Andy Culp and Brock Strasbourger.
  Culp, Heli’s CEO, switches fluidly between liftline and boardroom lingo. His speech is peppered with w
  
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• Transgender Athletes Banned From US Olympic and Paralympic Sports

  25-07-2025 12:19 via powder.com
  
  The US Olympic and Paralymic Committee (USOPC) has quietly made a change to the policy on their website regarding the allowance of trans athletes in Olympic sports. The USOPC's change in policy bans transgender athletes from competition in Olympic and Paralympic sports, and references President Trump's executive order signed earlier this year to "Keep Men Out of Women's Sports." Alongside banning trans athletes, the order also threatens to rescind funding from organizations that disobey it.
  
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