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• Mammoth Mountain Says It’s Ready After New Storm Transforms the Slopes

  17-11-2025 23:17 via powder.com
  
  Mammoth Mountain, California, is bouncing back.After a storm failed to deliver as much snow as expected late last week, the ski resort delayed its opening date. But now as the temperatures plummet and the snow begins to stack up, Mammoth Mountain has confirmed a new season kick off, this time on Thursday, November 20, 2025. The first chair is scheduled for 8:30 a.m.“Thanks to the teamwork of Mother Nature and our snowmaking crews, these colder temps have enabled us to make substantial prog
  
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• Jay Peak Issues Stern Warning to Delinquent Uphill Users

  17-11-2025 23:05 via powder.com
  
  Jay Peak, Vermont has been getting hammered by snow over the last few weeks and is in full prep mode for the start of the season.
  The Vermont ski area is scheduled to open on November 22, 2025, and has designated limited uphill access routes for skiers to enjoy all that early season snow before the lifts start spinning.
  The resort's official uphill access policy doesn't recommend any uphill ski access prior to the resort opening or outside of operating hours given there are no rescue services, s
  
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• Winter Is Raging in Northern Vermont While the Western Ski Resorts Lag Behind

  17-11-2025 22:33 via powder.com
  
  In ski country, a tale of two seasons is playing out.
  At ski resorts out West, there have been opening day delays caused by mild weather. Meanwhile, in the Northeast, winter is making a forceful entrance. Over the past week, Jay Peak, Vermont, has tallied several feet of snow, prompting the resort to open early this coming weekend. Its season total is sitting at a whopping 68 inches. It's only mid-November, in case you needed a reminder.“We are not easing into winter, we are nosedivin
  
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• How Often Do You Wax Your Skis? (Poll)

  17-11-2025 21:00 via powder.com
  
  Skis need wax. If they don’t have any, they won’t go anywhere. That’s settled science, and we won’t bore you by getting into the details. What’s less settled, though, are skiers’ waxing routines and preferences. Some apply a fresh coat every few days. Others are more negligent, firing up the iron once a season—or less. The reasoning behind these choices differs. If you’re at a mountain with lots of traverse tracks, for instance, you might be m
  
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• "Historically Cold" Winter Forecasted for Most of Country

  17-11-2025 20:36 via powder.com
  
  The winter Solstice is just over a month away and meteorologists are taking their last stabs at long range winter forecasts. Our friends at OpenSnow reminded us earlier this fall that most long range forecasts are not very accurate, because, well, they can't be.
  However, it's still fun (depending on what the forecast says...) and vaguely informative to take a gander and see if you should be investing in new powder skis or carving skis for the upcoming season.
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• Riding the Specialized Levo 4 might be the next best thing to early-season pow turns.

  17-11-2025 16:00 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 a time of year in any mountain town where skiers start to lose their minds. Temps start to drop, the days get shorter and shorter, but with lingering warm temps and late fall high pressure, the start ski season seems to be perpetually out of reach. Here in the Tetons, we call it mud season–once the first snowfall goes through a freeze-thaw cycle, the
  
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• Dasher, Dancer, and Winkie? Mikaela Shiffrin Adds Another Reindeer to Her Herd

  17-11-2025 15:24 via powder.com
  
  At ski races in North America or Europe, an ornate trophy is awarded to the winner, usually a hand-crafted piece of metal or wood that can easily be hoisted over one’s head.
  However, when you win a race at 68 degrees latitude and more than 100 miles north of the Arctic Circle on the sacred land of the Sámi people, receiving your very own reindeer makes a whole lot more sense.Over the weekend in Levi, Finland, Mikaela Shiffrin, the winningest ski racer of all-time, unleashed a beyond
  
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• Winter Starts When Killington Says So

  17-11-2025 14:00 via nyskiblog.com
  Winter starts when Killington says it does. That may sound like marketing hype, but it rings true to me. In addition to being big and burly and awesome, Killington is known for doing whatever it takes to extend its season on both ends. As soon as temps drop low enough, even if it is still October, Killington’s snowmakers get the mountain open. This year that turned out to be Wednesday — November 12. I wanted to be there for opening » Read More »
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• 6 Ski Clinics to Up Your On-Mountain Game

  17-11-2025 11:01 via nytimes.com
  Multiday clinics offer focused instruction and camaraderie on the slopes and at après-ski. Here, a half dozen that will improve your skills.
  
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