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• Wisconsin's Largest Ski Resort Has Snowmaking on Full Blast With Hopes of Opening Soon

  18-11-2025 20:22 via powder.com
  
  Midwest skiers rejoice, the (manmade) faucets are on at Wisconsin's largest ski resort!
  Those frigid, midwest temperatures have made their way to Rib Mountain, and Granite Peak has fired their snow guns up full blast. While the ski area hasn't officially announced their opening day just yet, according to social media comments, they're hoping for sometime around Thanksgiving, conditions dependent.
  Granite Peak hasn't seen much natural snow yet this year, but luckily, they were able to fire up the
  
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• Beloved Whistler Restaurant Won't Open This Ski Season

  18-11-2025 19:12 via powder.com
  
  Zog’s, a beloved restaurant in Whistler, British Columbia, won’t open this coming ski season.The eatery, which has served skiers for almost three decades, sold classic Canadian ski town fare, like hot dogs, poutine, and burgers, at reasonable prices. It was a short walk away from the base of the Excalibur Gondola, the Whistler Village Gondola, and the Fitzsimmons Express, three lifts where skiers often start their days at Whistler Blackcomb.In a statement shared with Pique,
  
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• Meet the Diehard Stewards of Colorado's Iconic Berthoud Pass

  18-11-2025 17:00 via powder.com
  
  Just over an hour’s drive from Denver, Colorado, stands Berthoud Pass. Once a functioning ski area, the collection of slopes has transformed into a popular, easy-to-access backcountry haunt. Advocating for the zone is the aptly named nonprofit Friends of Berthoud Pass (FOBP), which first had the goal of ensuring that public access to Berthoud Pass survived after the ski area shuttered. Now, FOBP mainly focuses on avalanche awareness and safety, with free introductory courses and
  
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• Colby Stevenson Is Team USA's Most Versatile Skier—He's Going for Broke at Milan Cortina 2026

  18-11-2025 15:54 via powder.com
  
  Colby Stevenson stood atop the World Cup slopestyle course in Seiser Alm, Italy, age 19, grateful and reinvigorated with a new outlook on life and opportunity that he wasn’t going to let slip away.His motivation to continue his freeskiing career, let alone any skiing or athletic pursuits, following a life-threatening car crash in Oregon eight months earlier, was just the medicine he needed to recover, physically and mentally, from the devastating incident.“After the accident, it felt
  
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• Is Telemark's Unconventional Streak Coming to an End?

  18-11-2025 15:26 via powder.com
  
  No other book may embody telemark in its countercultural formmore than Brad English’s 1984 softcover Total Telemarking. With free-heel pathfinder Doug Buzzell emblazoned on the cover, unironically bespectacled with glacier glasses and holding arms high, driving the sort of freewheeling, lunging turn endemic of the time, the work epitomizes the genuine, unconventional aura that long defined telemark skiing.But it was Total Telemarking’s words that were most operative. Heady, innovativ
  
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• The Imperfect Storm—Why Western Ski Resorts Are Dry as a Bone

  18-11-2025 15:00 via powder.com
  
  Walk into almost any ski resort base area from the Sierra Nevada to the central Rockies right now and the story feels the same— plenty of frost on the cars, a few white ribbons of machine-made snow, and a whole lot of brown in the mid-elevations.
  Colorado’s statewide snow water equivalent is currently in the neighborhood of only one‑fifth of median during the second week of November, a level that tracks with what skiers have seen on the ground.This slow start is not a mystery i
  
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• The Final Day To Purchase an Epic Pass Is Just Around The Corner

  18-11-2025 14:11 via powder.com
  
  Skiers hoping to secure an Epic Pass for the 2025/26 winter season—listen up!
  The last day to secure an Epic Pass for the season is Thursday, December 4, 2025.After the 4th, Epic Passes, including 1-7 day Epic Day Passes will no longer be available. Epic Passes are currently listed at $1121 and Epic Local Passes are $833. Epic Day passes start at $64.
  If you've been waiting on buying that pass, or booking your ski vacation to a Vail Resorts-owned mountain, now is the time. Epic Pass holder
  
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