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• Buying Your First Pair of Ski Poles? Here's What To Know

  28-11-2025 12:19 via powder.com
  
  Most skiers use poles. These handy spears are key to a successful turn, and make balancing while skiing—and navigating flat areas—much easier.Like any part of the mountainous kit needed to go skiing, choosing the right sized poles can, at first, seem daunting. Don’t worry, though, as far as ski gear goes, poles may be the most straightforward piece of equipment you’ll buy. For more information on sizing and choosing ski poles, keep reading. The 2026 POWDER Photo
  
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• The POWDER Staff's 40 Hottest Skiing Takes

  28-11-2025 12:13 via powder.com
  
  Everyone loves a hot take (for those out of the loop, a 'take' is synonymous with an opinion).After all, there's a multitude of opinions, as wrong as they may be, that differ from our own. You never know, maybe someone else's hot take is the reason you start wearing a helmet skiing or stop washing your ski socks.
  We like to think we're experts in skiing, which qualifies our takes as hotter than most other people's. Whether or not our takes are actually that hot, we have a platform to share them.
  
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• How the Snowbird Ski Resort in Utah Readies the Slopes

  28-11-2025 11:00 via nytimes.com
  Before skiers and riders and hit the slopes, a team works from dusk to dawn to prepare the mountain. We went behind the scenes to see how they do it.
  
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