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• Jackson Hole Just Dropped Limited-Edition Skis To Celebrate 60th Anniversary

  11-11-2025 23:04 via powder.com
  
  Jackson Hole Mountain Resort is gearing up to celebrate its 60th anniversary season. In preparation for the milestone season, Wyoming's biggest ski area has been offering special promotions like discounted lift tickets and special pass deals ahead of its scheduled opening day.
  Now, JHMR has officially pulled out all the stops for its anniversary celebration and launched a limited-edition ski.This morning, November 11, 2025, Jackson Hole announced its limited edition 60th Anniversary Ski in colla
  
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• Skiers Build Terrain Park in London With Real Snow

  11-11-2025 22:04 via powder.com
  
  Big Ben. The Tower Bridge. London is many things. A ski destination, however, it is not. That changed last weekend, when Peak Performance and its athlete, Max Palm, hosted an in-person event to launch a new outerwear line. The setting? London’s White Grounds Skatepark, with a twist: instead of skating ledges, invited skiers to hit street features thanks to 30 tons of real snow.The day began with coaching sessions, but then, at 2:30 p.m., a crew of professionals took center stage. They
  
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• North America Nearly Snubbed From World Ski Awards 2025

  11-11-2025 21:59 via powder.com
  
  The World Ski Awards has announced its 2025 winners, unveiling the "finest ski resorts, hotels and chalets in the world’s leading 25 ski tourism nations." The results aren't altogether shocking, with several European giants taking winning titles as well as several key Canadian destinations.
  However, with the exception of one or two, the US's ski resorts haven't impressed quite enough to earn top spots.
  The awards are conducted by the World Luxury Media Group Limited (WLMGL) and determined
  
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• Skiing Has a Nostalgia Problem—Why the Future Deserves More Attention

  11-11-2025 20:02 via powder.com
  
  How do we, as skiers, often meet the future's roiling, dark-seeming tide? By retreating to the comforting past. You'll hear it in lift lines and see it on internet forums. The "golden years" are prized by everyone who's lived long enough to watch the sport change. The prevailing attitude, it seems, is that skiing has become worse and will continue getting worse, so we may as well cling to the trinkets, songs, and mementos that conjure wilder, freer days.In ski resort auctions, outdated Ribl
  
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• Warm Weather Delays Yet Another Ski Area Opening Day

  11-11-2025 19:33 via powder.com
  
  A bit of unseasonably warm weather is plaguing much of the western US and making it increasingly difficult for ski areas to hit their targeted opening dates.
  Utah is getting hit particularly hard by the warm temperatures and lack of precipitation as weather systems that could bring precipitation seem to keep missing the state.
  Most recently, Solitude Resort announced that opening day would be delayed at least a couple of days, conditions dependent. The Utah ski area was originally slated to open
  
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• North Carolina Kicks Off Ski Season Before Utah

  11-11-2025 19:26 via powder.com
  
  Sugar Mountain, North Carolina, is giving some better-known ski states a run for their money.The small ski area opened today, November 11, 2025, at 9 a.m. with plans to keep its lifts operating until 4:30 p.m. Sugar Mountain opened the Summit Express chairlift and the Magic Carpet with access to five trails: Northridge, Switchback, Upper, Lower Flying Mile, and the Magic Carpet area.It marks the ski area’s earliest opening since 2019, when Sugar Mountain started the season on November 9. S
  
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• California Ski Resorts Bracing for Strong Winter Storm—Over 12 Inches of Snow Forecasted

  11-11-2025 18:29 via powder.com
  
  A compact storm is expected to arrive Wednesday night through Friday (November 12-14, 2025), primarily affecting upper elevations.
  The only true storm chasing window is Friday at Mammoth, which opens that morning and should see 8–12 inches from Thursday night into Friday, focused above 9,000 feet with dense, surfy snow and lighter winds. Tahoe resorts remain closed but gain helpful upper-mountain base with lighter totals, mainly Thursday night into Friday.Keep reading for a breakdown of th
  
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• New York's 'Ski Hickory' Has "No Plans" To Operate This Season

  11-11-2025 17:04 via powder.com
  
  Hickory Ski Center, located near Warrensburg, New York, posted a cryptic message to their Facebook page over the weekend, which broke the news that the mountain will not open for the 2025/26 ski season.
  Despite being able to open for the last two seasons thanks to community fundraising efforts, Hickory has "no plans to operate this season." Check out the announcement below. Keep reading for more on Hickory Ski Center.The 2026 POWDER Photo Annual is here! Look for a print copy on a newsstand near
  
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• How a Gear War Is Shaping the Future of Telemark Skiing

  11-11-2025 15:46 via powder.com
  
  From meadow skipping to extreme descents, telemark long had one binding platform–the 75mm Nordic Norm. Now several norms and sub-norms proliferate, muddying the free-heel gear paradigm. But has this convoluted reality also had an upside?In 1978, a book on telemark skiing was released that would forever change the sport. Exploring technique as much as the coalescing free-heel philosophy, Cross-Country Downhill and Other Nordic Mountain Skiing Techniques, written by polymath Steve Barnett, c
  
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