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• Exciting New Freeride Competition Coming to Palisades Tahoe: "Super Sessions"

  19-11-2025 22:00 via powder.com
  
  The Natural Selection Tour is coming to Palisades Tahoe, California, this winter.The event, which is separate from the upcoming finals showdown in Alaska, is a new addition called Super Sessions. It serves as a qualifier. During the competition, two skiers—one male and one female—will punch their tickets to Alaska. Four men and four women are set to compete, but the Natural Selection Tour hasn’t shared their names yet.The 2026 POWDER Photo Annual is here! Look for a print
  
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• Steamboat Announces Opening Day With Perks for Early Skiers

  19-11-2025 21:10 via powder.com
  
  Despite the unfortunate dry spell much of the western U.S. has been facing this fall and early winter, a few resorts have gotten enough snow to start spinning lifts, and some even have more on the way. Colorado, in particular, has already seen several ski resort openings, and while it may have been a bit of a waiting game for others, that waiting seems to have paid off.This weekend, Routt County skiers can rejoice—Steamboat Ski Resort has officially confirmed its opening day! If
  
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• The Best Accessories For Off-Season E-MTB Riding

  19-11-2025 20:55 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.Most everything you’ll want for regular mountain biking will work for riding your E-MTB (or regular mountain bike) this off-season. While you're waiting for the lifts to start spinning at your local hill, getting those last days out on the trail feels ever more worth it–tacky dirt, cooler temps and beautiful fall colors really set the vibe. You'll want to dre
  
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• How To Watch The First Skiers Compete in Shaun White's Snow League

  19-11-2025 20:37 via powder.com
  
  Shaun White's action sports event series, the Snow League, is getting ready to dive into the second half of its first full season. Following the Snow League's debut in Aspen, Colorado, last March, the event series is moving full steam ahead towards its 2025/26 winter events with a few exciting additions. The Snow League's first event of this winter will take place in Yunding Snow Park from December 4-6. Yunding will also be the first time skiers throw their hats in the ring at a Snow L
  
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• Snow in Hawaii? Officials Issue Winter Weather Advisory

  19-11-2025 20:24 via powder.com
  
  Are you one of the many skiers out West worried about the slow-going start to the 2025-26 season? No problem. Just book a flight to Hawaii, where a few inches of snow just fell in the mountains. The storm, which prompted a National Weather Service winter weather advisory, hit Mauna Kea, a dormant shield volcano and Hawaii’s highest point at 13,796 feet above sea level. The advisory remains in effect today, November 19. Forecasters predict that another inch of snow could fall on t
  
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• Park City Joins Other Utah Resorts in Delaying Opening Day

  19-11-2025 19:00 via powder.com
  
  “Winter is taking the scenic route.”So began a brief update published by Park City Mountain on social media, explaining that, like other Utah ski resorts, it wouldn’t start the upcoming season as originally planned.Park City first eyed November 21. Now, "We've decided to hit the pause button,” the resort wrote. “Our snowmaking team is on standby and ready to roll once conditions line up. We’re ready, and we can’t wait to ski and ride together soon. We wi
  
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• Nearly 100 Inches and Counting—Jay Peak, Vermont Is Having a November To Remember

  19-11-2025 17:14 via powder.com
  
  It’s been an unusually snowy November for Jay Peak, Vermont.
  So unusual, in fact, that the ski resort is on pace to hit 100 inches of seasonal snowfall before the end of November. The resort began totaling snowfall on October 31, 2025, when the first flakes of the season fell, according to a Jay Peak representative.In a recent snow report, the ski resort called it “one of the biggest early season stretches we have ever seen.” At the time of writing this, Jay Peak had already ta
  
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• Inside the New Mountain Gazette Anthology That Covers Decades of History

  19-11-2025 15:46 via powder.com
  
  The archives of the Mountain Gazette, an offbeat outdoor magazine born in 1966, are kept in a cave. To access them, you need a secret code and sunglasses (there’s a retina scanner).
  Or, at least, that’s what Mountain Gazette’s owner and editor, Mike Rogge, recently told me. He was joking, naturally.In truth, after Rogge bought and resurrected the magazine about five years ago, the archives migrated to his garage before moving to the Mountain Gazette office in King’s Beach
  
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• Telluride Ski Patrol Votes Unanimously to Authorize Labor Strike

  19-11-2025 15:38 via powder.com
  
  Ski patrol units are making waves all over Colorado as they negotiate and agree on union contracts.
  While Breckenridge's ski patrol unit came to a tentative agreement with Vail Resorts on a new contract for their unionized workers just a few days ago, further south, another unit is still locked in negotiations with resort owners.
  Telluride Professional Ski Patrol has been negotiating a new labor contract with Teleski, who owns Telluride Mountain.
  Telluride Ski Patrol's previous contract ended on
  
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• U.S. Ski and Snowboard Abandons Effort To Lead Olympic Surf Team

  19-11-2025 15:13 via powder.com
  
  U.S. Ski and Snowboard (USSS) has abandoned its effort to become the National Governing Body (NGB) for surfing athletes in the U.S.In a statement, the organization said that it’s instead focusing on its current athletes across disciplines like alpine racing and freeskiing, who are preparing for the upcoming Winter Olympics in Italy.USSS also said that it strongly believes “that our athlete-first model, track record of success across 10 Olympic & Para
  
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• Calling all Female Ski Industry Professionals—Applications Open for Game-Changing Grant

  19-11-2025 14:55 via powder.com
  
  Blizzard Tecnica has officially opened applications for the 2026 iteration of their ground-breaking educational funding grant, the Hilaree Nelson Professional Development Program.
  The program was developed as a part of Blizzard Tecnica's Women 2 Women initiative, which was started in an effort to develop ski gear that was not just catered to women, but developed by them.
  As the Women 2 Women program grew over the years, so did its greater mission of empowering women in the mountains. About to en
  
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