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Blizzard Warning Issued for Michigan, Heaps of Snow Expected

26-11-2025 20:37 via powder.com

Parts of Michigan could see a particularly white Thanksgiving as a storm set to deliver inches of snow blasts the region, alongside high winds.Local snow totals on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula may be much higher, making travel very difficult or impossible, according to the National Weather Service.In the Upper Peninsula, a blizzard warning published by the agency is in effect through Thursday morning.The agency said that between 12 and 29 inches of snow are possible, with winds gusting as hi

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Dry Start to the Ski Season? Not in Alberta, Where Feet of Snow Have Fallen

26-11-2025 19:11 via powder.com

As one of the more uneven ski season debuts in recent memory gets underway, some mountains are enjoying a feast while others are dealing with a famine. Ski resorts in Alberta around Banff fall into the former camp. Banff Sunshine Village and Lake Louise have both taken to social media, sharing videos that should spark a twinge of jealousy in skiers still waiting for the snow to start falling (myself, unfortunately, included). At Lake Louise, 74 centimeters—or about 30 inches for

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How Consolidation and Affiliate Marketing Upended Outdoor Media

26-11-2025 19:03 via powder.com

For nearly twenty years, a single blog about backcountry skiing—named for untouched powder found well beyond the bounds of any ski area—inhabited a certain lofty place in the outdoor psyche: Lou Dawson’s WildSnow.com.Expansive in its breadth, the site stood as the high-water mark for the discussion on skiing’s most cachet-rich discipline; a human-powered approach to wild, steep snowriding whose weighty nature rivaled that of activities like surfing as the pinnacle of mean

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These Ski Brands Are Purposely Skipping The Black Friday Hype

26-11-2025 15:33 via powder.com

We're definitely suckers for a good deal, especially right before ski season–but there's plenty of good reasons that some brands are skipping the whole Black Friday/Cyber Monday thing on principle. For one, rampant consumerism and the never-ending drive to always want the next greatest thing lead to over-consumption and unsustainable manufacturing industry-wide. Turns out, that's one of the main drivers of climate change, which is directly–and at this point likely irreversibly–

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Out of the Ordinary: HEAD Skis' New Movie Is a Globe-Trotting Hit

26-11-2025 11:49 via powder.com

HEAD Skis, for the most part, is known as a hard-charging brand that supports big mountain rippers and ski racers alike. These are the skiers who can bend a ski and, no matter how choppy the snow might get, maintain form.Out of the Ordinary, the brand's new team film, mostly reaffirms that reputation. Jess Hotter and Hedvig Wessel, of Freeride World Tour fame, carve perfect lines on steep slopes. Xander Guldman proves, again, that his time on the junior freeride circuit paid off. Aksel Lund Svin

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