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• Faction Skis Teases 2025/26 Ski Collection

  28-08-2025 20:05 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.Why change a good thing when it works so damn well? That seems to be the theme for Faction's 2025/26 ski collection, which instead of being chock-full of fresh products is mostly a story of continuing to produce some of our favorite freeride and freestyle skis ever made, with the notable addition of a carving ski, of all things. Have we reached a point in ski design wher
  
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• Invite-Only Rail Jam Coming to Tahoe in September

  28-08-2025 19:59 via powder.com
  
  The Tahoe Games is returning to the Lake Tahoe area this fall for two days of music, art, sports demos and competitions. While ski season might be a ways out, the festival is taking full advantage of the shoulder season to bring as many sports together as they can.
  The Tahoe Games will help Sierra at Tahoe kick off the winter 2025/26 ski season with several on-snow events. Despite taking place in September, Sierra at Tahoe has promised real snow for an invite-only rail jam. From September 27-28,
  
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• "Steamy" Pumpkin Picking—Old Farmer's Almanac Forecasts Hot Fall 2025

  28-08-2025 18:35 via powder.com
  
  Amongst skiers, long-range winter forecasts capture most of the attention. We want to know what the weather might do in January, not July. But what about fall?
  Sure, it’s not the height of the ski season, but September, October, and November are a gateway. If the weather’s cold during these months, ski resorts might be able to open early—or, at the very least, open on time.As it does every year, the Old Farmer’s Almanac has some predictions about what pumpkin pa
  
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• World's Top Downhill Mountain Bike Series Coming to Whistler for First Time in 2026

  28-08-2025 17:06 via powder.com
  
  Earlier this week, the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) announced that a new stop would be added for the 2026 season, and beyond, at none other than Whistler Blackcomb's bike park.
  While skiers might know Whistler Blackcomb as the largest ski area in North America for it's epic terrain and mega powder days , it's also got a reputation amongst mountain bikers. The Whistler Mountain Bike Park just about rivals the ski area in reputation and fame as being one of the best spots for downhill mount
  
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• Indy Ski Pass Adds 43 New Resorts Around the World

  28-08-2025 16:00 via powder.com
  
  Hoping to get in on the Indy Pass action? You'd better act fast. With the addition of 43 new resorts, the Indy Pass is back on sale today, August 28, 2025, for a limited time while supplies last. The Indy Pass restricts the number of passes sold to restrict overcrowding at partner mountains. The increased capacity offered by the new ski areas, the Indy Pass said, is what allowed it to sell more multi-passes. The new Indy Pass mountains span from South America to Eur
  
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• Indy Pass adds Buffalo Ski Club and Dry Hill

  28-08-2025 16:00 via nyskiblog.com
  GRANBY, COLORADO – Indy Pass announced today that 43 new resorts have signed on for the 2025/2026 season. Two of those new additions — Buffalo Ski Club and Dry Hill — are in New York, bringing the state’s total Indy member tally to sixteen, surpassing Michigan as the state with the most Indy members in the nation. In total, 15 resorts were added in the US include Burke Mountain Resort in Vermont and Tenney and McIntyre Ski Area in New » Read More »
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• The 10 Best Vintage POWDER Ads of All Time

  28-08-2025 15:17 via powder.com
  
  Perhaps one of the best pieces of the Summer of Nostalgia we've been having at POWDER is digging up old ads from previous issues of the magazine. In a time when so much of ski marketing is nice photos of families at ski areas, perfect pow shots of some athlete getting rad, or those super-trendy motion blur photos that use flash even though it's daytime, it's pretty epic to see just how kooky ads were back in the day.
  Whether it was going through page after page of cigarette and beer ads in a ski
  
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• America's Steepest Ski Trail Is Still Terrifying In The Summer

  28-08-2025 13:36 via powder.com
  
  While the title of 'most difficult' or 'scariest' ski trail might be a subjective classification, there's little doubt about the steepest cut ski run in America.
  The run that takes the cake is a quarter mile of usually icy, chopped up moguls and baby heads waiting to snag your skis. The aptly named Rambo can be found off of Crested Butte, Colorado's North Face lift and is the steepest tree-cut run in North America.
  Ask Drew Petersen, there's no doubt Rambo is scary as sh*t in the winter. Looking
  
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