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• Here's How Skiers and Snowboarders Spent $2.5 Billion in Utah Last Winter

  06-11-2025 22:11 via powder.com
  
  Skiers and snowboarders, according to a new study from the Kem C. Gardner Institute at the University of Utah, spent $2.5 billion on snowsports in Utah during the 2024-25 season. Total skier spending dipped from the previous winter, though, which saw about $2.7 billion spent—a continued decline following the 2022-23 season, when record amounts of snow fell and skiers hit the slopes in record numbers. The wide-ranging report also covered everything from skier visits to the ag
  
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• Denver’s Ski Train Returns With Tickets Starting at $9

  06-11-2025 22:06 via powder.com
  
  Tired of sitting in traffic? Denver’s ski train is back with tickets now on sale and four-day-a-week service starting after the New Year. The Amtrak train, dubbed the Winter Park Express, departs from Denver’s Union Station and delivers skiers, snowboarders, and other travelers to Winter Park Ski Resort, with an additional stop in Fraser, Colorado.The Winter Park Express’ first seasonal service begins during the final weekends of December, accepting passengers be
  
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• First Look: Raide Research 2026 TourTech Ski Touring Apparel

  06-11-2025 21:48 via powder.com
  
  For all the Raide fanboys and fangirls out there, you might have seen this one coming. For the last few days, Raide has been teasing a new line of ski-touring specific outerwear on their social media channels, promising a system-based approach to creating ski touring apparel that perfectly complements the fan- and tester-favorite LF30 and LF40 ski packs.Alongside their ski packs, Raide now offers a full ski touring apparel line including a shell jacket, a hooded midlayer jacket, baselayer bottom
  
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• Colorado’s Ski Season Expands With Three More Resort Openings This Weekend

  06-11-2025 20:08 via powder.com
  
  With the exciting back-to-back opening duel between Keystone and Arapahoe Basin a week or so ago, a new group of Colorado resorts is joining the ski season fun this weekend, Copper Mountain, Loveland, and Breckenridge among them.Copper Mountain is scheduled to begin the season on Friday, November 7, 2025, at 9 a.m. The resort will spin the American Eagle Express with skiing from the Rhapsody trail to Fair Play to Main Vein. Alongside those trails, Copper Mounta
  
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• The Shohei Otani of Snow, Ester Ledecka, Is Poised To Claim Olympic Gold Medals In Two Sports

  06-11-2025 19:37 via powder.com
  
  The 2026Milan-Cortina Olympic Winter Games schedule is not favorable to Ester Ledecka, but the ultra-talented ski racer and snowboarder has defied the odds before.
  The 30-year-old Czech triple Olympic champion, who has won two golds in parallel snowboard GS and one in alpine skiing super-G, is prepared to attempt her third consecutive skiing and snowboard double at the Olympics in Italy.It seems almost mind-blowing that Ledecka has continued to prosper at the upper echelons of two sports, ever s
  
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• Skiers Have a New Place to Gather—POWDER Magazine Launches Comments and Polls on Website

  06-11-2025 17:55 via powder.com
  
  If there's one thing the staff at POWDER knows about skiers, it's that they love to share their opinions, for better or worse.The passion we carry for this silly sport spills over into our everyday thoughts, conversations, and arguments. It's inevitable.
  A co-worker brings up the score of the most recent primetime NFL Game—we somehow think about skiing. Your mom asks if you're coming home for the Holidays this year—Will that hamper my ski time?, you ask yourself without shame.Talking
  
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• How Mallory Duncan’s Artistic Vision Crystalized Into a New Kind of Ski Film

  06-11-2025 16:27 via powder.com
  
  It's been almost three years since Mallory Duncan captivated the ski world with his award-winning film, The Blackcountry Journal. Those who had heard Duncan's name before were quickly shown what folks who have the pleasure of meeting him in person already knew: that Duncan is so much more than just an athlete.
  His breakout film gave the world a look into one of the most creative and thoughtful minds in skiing. The PNW-based skier has one of the most unique ways of connecting his many creative ou
  
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• Balance Holding You Back? Here’s How To Level Up Your Skiing

  06-11-2025 14:11 via powder.com
  
  While we may not think of having good balance as an essential skill to skiing in the way it is to walking on a tightrope or doing ballet, it's a skill that can make a huge difference.Whether it's hitting a patch of weird snow, landing an air on one leg and pulling it back in, or just keeping it in the front seat, there are all kinds of ways good balance will improve your skiing, but how do you train for something that feels like an innate skill some people are just born with?
  There are a few way
  
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