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• Another Major North American Ski Resort Delays Opening

  25-11-2025 23:46 via powder.com
  
  Another western ski resort, this time the famed Jackson Hole, Wyoming, has pressed pause on the start of the 2025-26 season.The ski resort announced in a press release that the delay stemmed from unseasonably warm temperatures and low snow.Around two feet of snow has fallen at Jackson Hole’s mid-mountain this month, but the mild weather has affected snowmaking, meaning there isn’t enough snow to cover the slopes, and most of the natural snow has melted from warm temps. Many ski resor
  
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• Wisconsin Ski Area Files for Bankruptcy but Still Plans To Open

  25-11-2025 20:43 via powder.com
  
  Whitecap Mountains, a beloved, small ski area in Wisconsin, has filed for bankruptcy. The ski area, in a social media post, shared the news, writing that it had adopted “Subchapter V bankruptcy reorganization,” calling the designation “a special process designed for small businesses like us to get a fresh start.”“That means we’re able to reorganize quickly, with lower costs, and our team stays in control,” the ski area added. The decision won&r
  
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• SilverStar’s Gen Alpha Update Has Skiers Laughing, but the Delay Is Real

  25-11-2025 19:12 via powder.com
  
  A surprising number of western ski resorts have pushed back their opening dates amid a stretch of mild weather, from California to Utah to British Columbia.In breaking the bad news, most mountains have opted for by-the-numbers, no frills statements. They explain what’s happening—no snow, of course—and share an amended opening date, if possible. When SilverStar in British Columbia announced that its opening day would be delayed, it took a different approach. As the ski reso
  
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• Josh Madsen Has No Comment

  25-11-2025 15:58 via powder.com
  
  When I noted in June of 2024 that someone was missing from the telemark subculture, the vacuum that person had left remained inescapable. Josh Madsen’s fitful departure from all things free-heel some six months earlier was then unavoidably awkward and touchy–like a permanent row between friends in a tight-knit group.Following his ‘Three Top Reasons Telemark Struggles to Grow’ podcast–a divisive and raw criticism of much of the modern telemark landscape–people
  
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• Gore Opens in 2025

  25-11-2025 15:40 via nyskiblog.com
  It’s been cold in the northeast and here in the mountains, it’s been snowing. Lows have been in the twenties every night for a few weeks and the ski areas have been taking full advantage, opening more terrain, faster than any year in recent memory. Gore was no exception, opening a week before Thanksgiving. Lifts spun on East Side and the North with three lifts and ~four ways down the mountain for the weekend. Conditions were good, and skiers were » Read More »
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• Skiing in Colorado? You'll Need To Comply With a New Traction Law for Drivers

  25-11-2025 15:36 via powder.com
  
  I-70 skiers rejoice!Colorado has tweaked its Passenger Vehicle Traction Law ahead of this winter, updating the rules around which cars need to use chains when the going gets slick.Drivers who don’t have an AWD or 4WD car equipped with the required tires (winter tires, all-weather rated tires, or mud and snow tires) must have chains or an approved alternative traction device, like EasySox, where traction laws are in place.Approved tires must also have a tread depth of at least 3/16-inches.
  
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