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• Winter Is Finally Here—3 Feet of Snow Forecasted at Ski Resorts Across The West

  01-12-2025 23:00 via powder.com
  
  A shift in the pattern is bringing winter back in force across the West. We are looking at a two-part storm cycle this week. The first wave is a colder, fast-moving system impacting the Northern Rockies, Utah, and Colorado from Monday night through Wednesday (December 1-3, 2025).
  While accumulations will be light to moderate, the snow quality will be exceptional with very high Snow-to-Liquid Ratios (SLR), offering "cold smoke" conditions. After a brief lull on Thursday, the main event arrives fo
  
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• 30 Inches of Snow Buries Michigan Ski Area

  01-12-2025 20:58 via powder.com
  
  A lucky Michigan ski area got a pre-opening day storm for the books.
  Last week, Snowriver Mountain Resort, in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, got a whopping 30" of snow over 48 hours, just one day before they opened for the 2025/26 ski season.
  The storm came in warm at the start, with rain falling for the first 12 hours. Temperatures finally cooled down, bringing more than two feet of lake effect snow from Lake Superior. Along with significant precipitation, the storm also brought high sustained win
  
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• Skier Deploys Airbag in Backcountry Avalanche Caught on POV Video

  01-12-2025 20:38 via powder.com
  
  The western ski season may be off to a slow start, but in the backcountry, avalanches are beginning to make their presence known.According to an observation shared by the Friends of the Gallatin National Forest Avalanche Center (GNFAC), a skier was caught in a slide on November 29, 2025, in Montana. The skier was heading down a mountain in the Bridger Range when the snow quality changed drastically. As he turned on a slightly convex feature, the snow cracked and propagated about 150 feet ac
  
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• How Much New Snow Counts As a Powder Day? (Poll)

  01-12-2025 19:55 via powder.com
  
  As skiers, we pretty much live for powder days.
  There's truly nothing like the sensation of skiing powder, and few things in the world are as magical. In fact, we love it so much that Dave and Jake Moe named our publication after it and have been writing about it since 1972.
  However, part of the magic of powder days is that they don't happen all the time. What you consider a 'powder day' might change year to year or geographically, depending on how much snow your local mountain gets in a given y
  
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• Gold Medal Hopeful Lauren Macuga's Season Is Over After a Devastating Injury

  01-12-2025 19:34 via powder.com
  
  The rising U.S. Ski Team star Lauren Macuga has been sidelined just as the ski racing season ahead of the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics was heating up. On Friday, while she was training before the World Cup giant slalom competition the next day at Copper Mountain, Colorado, she crashed, tearing her ACL in her right knee, USA Today reported. The injury will prevent her from racing the rest of this winter and competing in the Olympics.“It’s me, I’m what’s broken ԅ
  
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• Black Friday at Hunter Mountain

  01-12-2025 13:20 via nyskiblog.com
  There had been some debate about whether Black Friday would be a good day to ski. My plan was to ski Hunter the day after Thanksgiving. Somebody suggested it was a blackout day on some Epic passes so that meant it would be crowded. Harvey thought Sunday would be better. I’ve always had good luck skiing on those days that are famous for something else — like Super Bowl Sunday for instance. My thinking was that a big event — » Read More »
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