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• Need Some Ski Season Stoke? This Hour-Long Trove of Powder Skiing Footage Should Do the Trick

  02-09-2025 20:00 via powder.com
  
  When fall arrives, skiers start seeing signs. The nights get a bit colder. Trailers for ski movies appear online. Ski resorts begin announcing long-range opening date predictions that, at times, seem a little too ambitious. Then, there’s another harbinger of good times, Dan Noakes, who, ahead of each season, releases an hour-long compilation of point-of-view backcountry footage. Due to popular demand, Noakes cut the music this time, instead opting for the natural sounds
  
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• Stacked Athlete Roster Announced for Backcountry Invitational Test Event

  02-09-2025 19:52 via powder.com
  
  After making its debut in Ushaïa, Argentina just a few weeks ago, the Backcountry Invitational has made its way to New Zealand. On Wednesday, September 3, 2025, Treble Cone will host the second iteration of the event this season.For those unfamiliar, the Backcountry Invitational originated in Nendez, Switzerland as an offshoot of freeride events that take advantage of natural terrain and good snow conditions such as the Freeride World Tour (FWT) and Natural Selection Tour (NST) Ski.
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• How Retro Ski Fashion Has Influenced Today's Trends

  02-09-2025 19:41 via powder.com
  
  Folks in the fashion world believe in something called the 20-year-rule, which basically says that trends come back around every 20 years or so.
  Certain trends died with good reason, but others seem to make an uncanny comeback time and time again. It seems like groms are always the first to pounce on these things, likely because they weren't around to see these trends the first time. Now that I've reached the ripe old age of almost-30, I too, am seeing certain trends come back, especially in ski
  
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• Legal Dispute Forces Small Washington Ski Area To Delay New Chairlift Opening

  02-09-2025 19:19 via powder.com
  
  Ski Bluewood, Washington, won’t open its first high-speed quad chairlift this coming ski season owing to a legal dispute with its lift broker.
  According to a letter published by Bluewood’s team, the original plan was to install the new Skyline Express this summer and open it once the snow began falling, but Bluewood said that because of the lift broker dispute, key parts for the Skyline Express are being held and haven’t arrived yet. “We have
  
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• Rossignol's '25/'26 Super Project Includes '90s-Inspired Skis and An Enduro Bike

  02-09-2025 18:55 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're suckers for limited-edition gear here at POWDER, so when every year Rossignol debuts their Super Project lineup, we pay attention. This year, the French brand goes full '90s (did we start a trend with our Summer of Ski Nostalgia series?) and drops a whole slew of limited-edition product including Super Blackops skis, Super Hi Speed LV boots, Pivot 2.0 15 bindings,
  
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• We Need The Stereotypical Telemark Skier Now More Than Ever.

  02-09-2025 17:17 via powder.com
  
  In the early spring of 2021, at a time when telemark skiing was still experiencing a long-lived if soon to be concluded dormancy, a rare thing happened for the genuflecting turn.For the first time in years, an article about telemark ran in a mainstream skiing outlet. But free-heel skiing’s reentrance into the mainline skiing discourse wasn’t exactly marked by a genuine treatise on the sport.“Like the reddish orange stain that clings to Tupperware long after you’ve eaten t
  
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• Six Years of Superpark: The Ski Event That Changed Everything

  02-09-2025 13:14 via powder.com
  
  Every good ski jump needs a name. At the inaugural POWDER Superpark in 1999, the organizers settled on an aptly bone-chilling moniker for the event’s largest offering: the Berzerker. The hulking booter featured a 100-foot table top, and only a few skiers mustered the courage to hit it.
  First, Jack Alvarez came up ten feet short. Then, with the help of a 60-mile-per hour snowmobile tow-in, Shane McConkey made it to the other side but crashed on impact. The final contender, Joe Sagona,
  
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