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• Mammoth’s New Avy Pup Is Taking Instagram by Storm

  29-10-2025 19:37 via powder.com
  
  Mammoth Mountain, California, is introducing Sancho, the latest furry addition to its ski patrol team. Sancho, a puppy, has golden fur and a little red vest to match the gear worn by his human counterparts, Mammoth Mountain’s ski patrollers. According to the ski resort, he’s a Red Labrador Retriever.
  As is often the case when mountains introduce new K-9 recruits, skiers and snowboarders welcomed Sancho with open arms. “Gonna need a stuffed sancho asap h
  
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• Kai Jones Does It All In New Film "ORIGIN" (Watch)

  29-10-2025 19:24 via powder.com
  
  The once token grom of TGR films, Kai Jones is all grown up and dropping film segments to prove it.
  It's no secret that the Jackson Hole bred skier has always displayed incredible amounts of talent and discipline as an athlete. However, as he's gotten older and his ski career widened beyond just the front of his dad's lens, Jones has had the chance to ski alongside some of the best in the sport.
  As a result, he's come into his own style that's been influenced by the likes of Sammy Carlson, Colby
  
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• Best Smart Glasses for Athletes? Oakley x Meta Vanguard Review

  29-10-2025 18:35 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 I’m testing gear, the two biggest questions I’m looking to answer, beyond simply the product’s quality, are: “What is the use case?” and “How will this product enhance my experience out in the field?” Just earlier this year, Oakley released their Meta HSTN Limited Edition AI-enabled smart glasses, a product so radically diff
  
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• Eileen Gu Reveals the Powerful Way She Silenced Her Haters

  29-10-2025 18:33 via powder.com
  
  What helped professional skier Eileen Gu silence her detractors? Becoming better at skiing than they are, she said in a recent episode of Red Bull's Winter Heroes.Gu explained that she was the only girl on her ski team until she was 14. In an archive video included in the episode, a young Gu said that no one wanted to ride the chairlift with her at first. In the present day, she recalled the "infinite times" that she's heard someone say that she's "skiing like a girl" or skiing ba
  
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• How a Huge Affordable Housing Initiative Divided Steamboat And What Comes Next

  29-10-2025 18:22 via powder.com
  
  West of Steamboat Springs, Colorado, beyond the famous ski town, where the sky opens and the Yampa Valley’s ranchland rolls out over scrub and sage, things seem quiet, even serene.  Once the summer hunting grounds of several Ute bands, all of whom were forcibly removed from the treaty-promised land in the late 1800s, this idyllic mountain oasis has evolved in modern times from a low-key ranching community to an international skiing destination. But the fitful, often problematic e
  
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• Jossi Wells Suffers Broken Femur in New Zealand

  29-10-2025 15:35 via powder.com
  
  Professional skier Jossi Wells is recovering after breaking his femur while filming at Cardrona, a New Zealand ski resort. In a recent social media post, Wells revealed the injury, writing, “I’ve spent the last couple of years in an interesting relationship with risk, trying to mitigate as best I can, as I age in a lifestyle that demands we walk that tight rope.”Wells called the injury a “heavy tax,” noting that “it’s the price we pay for living thi
  
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• Editor's Picks: Best Freeride Skis 25/26

  29-10-2025 14:06 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.There’s no clear answer as to where on the planet “freeride” skiing as we know it today actually got started, but without sounding too poetic, I’ll say it clearly got started in the hearts of skiers looking to have a good time. On snow, there’s little that’s more fun than chasing your friends through whatever terrain you feel like, jum
  
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• See the Stunning First Footage of Jim Morrison’s Unbelievable Mt. Everest Ski Descent

  29-10-2025 12:41 via powder.com
  
  Earlier this month, news broke that skier and mountaineer Jim Morrison had completed the first successful ski descent of Mt. Everest’s foreboding Hornbein Couloir.First climbed in 1963 by Tom Hornbein and Willi Unsoeld, the narrow ribbon of snow slices down the peak’s north face. It’s long loomed large as an aspirational line for high altitude skiers, and was the place where French snowboarder Marco Siffredi famously disappeared in 2002.On Mt. Everest, Morrison was joined by th
  
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• Two Tahoe Resorts Kick Off Snowmaking—Opening Day Quickly Approaching

  29-10-2025 11:39 via powder.com
  
  Temperatures have finally dropped enough for two Tahoe ski areas to fire up the snow guns.
  Heavenly Mountain Resort and Northstar California Resort kicked off their snowmaking efforts on Monday, October 27, 2025, ahead of the 2025/26 ski season. Both ski areas have an anticipated opening date of November 21, 2025, which gives them just under a month to continue building a base for the resort.The 2026 POWDER Photo Annual is here! Look for a print copy on a newsstand near you, or click here&n
  
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