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• NST Ski Announces Return to Alaska in 2026

  23-10-2025 23:56 via powder.com
  
  After a debut that the ski world still hasn't stopped talking about in 2025, Natural Selection Tour (NST) Ski has announced that the competition will return to Alaska once again in 2026.
  The competition will be held in late March with skiers at a home base in Alaska for a week-long weather window. Like last year, the event will be broadcasted via Red Bull TV in early April, with the results shown at the end of the broadcast.The 2025 winners, Manon Loschi and Craig "Weazy" Murray have automatical
  
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• Vermont's Highest Peak Sees First Snow of the Season

  23-10-2025 21:58 via powder.com
  
  What’s that? Snow on Vermont’s Mount Mansfield? Sure is.Stowe Mountain Resort, near Mount Mansfield, broke the news in an excited social media post, sharing footage captured on the peak, which, at 4,395 feet, is Vermont’s highest. The webcam video showed flakes flying through the air, but no obvious accumulation. A look at the webcam a few hours later doesn’t appear to show any snow.Still, the wintry tease was cause for excitement, with the comments section
  
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• Freeride World Tour Reveals 2026 Athlete Roster: Here's Who To Watch

  23-10-2025 21:36 via powder.com
  
  The Freeride World Tour has announced which athletes will join its ranks for the 2026 competitive season, starting this coming January in Baqueira Beret, Spain.The roster includes returning stars, potential underdogs, and a fresh crop of rookies who earned a ticket to the big leagues after navigating the qualifiers circuit. Much like the last few seasons, the roster continues to skew younger, made up of skiers capable of blending freeride fundamentals with the newer, trick-oriented version
  
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• Like Ski Movies? Salt Lake City Is Hosting 5 World-Class Premieres This Weekend

  23-10-2025 21:21 via powder.com
  
  It's no secret that Salt Lake City is a mecca for skiers, with world class resorts like Alta, Snowbird, Solitude, Park City, and more just up the road.
  While flakes have definitely started to fall in the Wasatch, it's not quite ski season yet, but there is plenty of early season stoke to be had. This weekend in particular, a whole slew of ski film premiers are making their way to Salt Lake City. If you happen to be in the area, clear your calendar, you won't want to miss these films. Thursday wi
  
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• K2 Quietly Drops Sean Pettit’s Limited K2000 Ski and Snowboard Line

  23-10-2025 20:46 via powder.com
  
  Sean Pettit is a man of many talents. As one of the most prolific skiers of the mid 2000s, he went a bit dark over the last decade, quietly dropping a handful of video parts and keeping his hands in all sorts of projects with iconic brands like Oakley, K2, Mountain Hardwear and more. He even started showing off his snowboarding prowess, of all things.
  This year, he teamed up with longtime ski sponsor K2 to drop a line of sci-fi and retro-inspired gear that includes skis and boots, plus a full li
  
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• Ski Area Needs $200k In Donations To Operate This Season

  23-10-2025 19:52 via powder.com
  
  New Hampshire's little non-profit ski area, Whaleback Mountain, continues to persevere despite some significant challenges over the last year.
  The mountain's only lift shut down last February following the failure of a critical gearbox bearing. In response, the community raised more than $250,000 to repair the part and help re-open the lift, which is the only one that accesses Whaleback's summit, ahead of the 2025-26 season. However, last month, the ski area announced that the lift's damage was
  
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• An Under-the-Radar Montana Ski Resort Was Just Named the Best Value in the U.S.

  23-10-2025 19:29 via powder.com
  
  The vacation rental marketplace HomeToGo has revealed a list of what it says are the ski resorts with the best value throughout the U.S., and a lesser-known mountain in Montana took top marks. The ranking, according to HomeToGo, was created by reviewing the median nightly cost per person for vacation accommodation (based on HomeToGo cost data presumably from its listings), the cost of a lift ticket, and the skiable terrain in acres at the ski resorts surveyed. The c
  
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• K2 Built the First Boot Expert Skiers Can Actually Live In

  23-10-2025 17:50 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.When Max Hitzig stomped his winning run at the 2024 Verbier Pro, I noticed something surprising—he was wearing a BOA boot. Hitzig, like many athletes on the Freeride World Tour, usually wore stiff plug race boots–he’d spent the last season in Dalbello DRS World Cup boots. I was curious about how a K2 BOA boot ended up on his foot, so I gave K2's boot gu
  
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• Can't Stop Overthinking While Skiing? Try These Tips

  23-10-2025 13:12 via powder.com
  
  Most skiers have been there. You're waiting atop a cliff, chute, park jump, or icy mogul field. You know you want to slide downhill and execute, but you're stuck; your mind has built a barrier.Inside and outside of skiing, overthinking is a classic obstacle to progression. It gums up your brain, reinforces bad habits, and promotes inaction. If you're overanalyzing rather than skiing, you won't make it to the next level.This is the topic of a recent video f
  
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