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• Ikon Pass Changes Access to Arapahoe Basin—Here's What Skiers Need To Know

  10-12-2025 20:39 via powder.com
  
  The IKON Pass has made a few key changes that pass holders, especially those in Colorado, might want to pay attention to.
  A low-snow year across the American West has folks who purchased ski passes grumbling, with some completely unable to use them, and others souring over their $1200 entry fee to the white strip of death. There's no doubt ski areas are feeling the pressure to provide a top-notch experience, which is no easy task when Mother Nature isn't cooperating.
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• Heading to Lake Tahoe This Winter? Officials Ask Skiers To Use “Anything but One Person per Car”

  10-12-2025 20:31 via powder.com
  
  As the ski season gets underway around Lake Tahoe, local officials have a simple request: Use “anything but one person per car.”In a release, the Lake Tahoe Destination Stewardship Council, which includes groups such as Palisades Tahoe and the California Tahoe Conservancy, noted that the roads around Lake Tahoe are primarily two-lane. That can contribute to serious ski season traffic as people scramble to visit the area’s ample selection of resorts, particularly during storm sy
  
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• Authorities Say Woman Used Stolen Bank Info in "Multi-Year, Multimillion-Dollar" Ski Pass Scheme

  10-12-2025 19:27 via powder.com
  
  A South Carolina woman pleaded guilty in federal court to conspiracy to commit wire fraud after participating in a multimillion-dollar scam that fraudulently sold “discounted” Epic, Ikon, and other ski passes, according to the District of Utah U.S. Attorney’s Office. The accused, Jamilla Greene, started the elaborate scheme in November 2020 and continued it through May 2024, prosecutors said.She and her co-conspirators advertised “discounted” passes through tar
  
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• The Off-Limits Nature of Politics In Skiing—And What It Means In A Fraught Time

  10-12-2025 18:13 via powder.com
  
  In July, POWDER, the long-running if more lately resurrected skiing periodical—once perhaps the most core title in all of snowsports—ran an article that broached what may be the most problematic topic in all of skiing: politics. The piece was entitled “The Unexpected Ways Trump Tariffs Are Affecting Skiing.” There, in mostly unremarkable language, gear editor Max Ritter briefly detailed several impacts the Trump administration’s new tariffs might bring to skiin
  
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• Thinking About Skiing in Japan? This Film Will Convince You

  10-12-2025 17:08 via powder.com
  
  Anyone who has ever dedicated their life to the pursuit of a single thing will likely understand how burnout feels.
  At first, you think that there's no way you could ever get sick of pursuing whatever the thing is that you're chasing, because you love it so much, but over time, as the pursuit of it takes over your life, it becomes more challenging to find balance between that pursuit and everything else. After all, humans are multifaceted—our minds are not single tracks, our existences not
  
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• Why Arapahoe Basin, Colorado, Decided To Add a Real Snow Stake

  10-12-2025 16:58 via powder.com
  
  Out with the old, in with the new.Next time you venture onto the website of Arapahoe Basin, Colorado, to look at the webcams, you’ll encounter a reimagined snow stake. The fresh model includes Arapahoe Basin’s iconic “Flaming A” logo, positioned alongside a pair of little skis that double as measuring sticks. Check it out below. The 2026 POWDER Photo Annual is here! Look for a print copy on a newsstand near you, or click here to have a copy shipped directly to y
  
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• "Skiing Is Supposed To Be Fun"—A Lesson Every Sports Dad Could Learn From

  10-12-2025 16:37 via powder.com
  
  This story originally appeared in the print magazine POWDER 2026 Photo Annual. Copies are still available while supplies last. Click here to get yours.I Try Not To Be a Sports DadAnd yet here I am, on the side of a slalom course at Snowking Resort, and I’m livid.
  I watch as skiers fly by in descending bib order. Bib 32. Then 30. My kid, wearing bib 31, missed his start. I wait as the rest of the field navigates the course, then watch as my son takes his run at the end of his age group, per
  
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• Aspen Ski Patrollers Reach Contract Agreement Ahead of Highlands & Buttermilk Opening Days

  10-12-2025 13:11 via powder.com
  
  Just as the snow really starts to stack up on Aspen's four mountains, the resort's ski patrol unit has reached a new contract agreement with management.
  Aspen Professional Ski Patrol Association (APSPA) is one of the oldest patrol unions in the country, having been formed in 1986. The union represents patrollers from all four mountains: Aspen Highlands, Aspen Mountain, Buttermilk, and Snowmass.
  Collectively, Aspen's ski areas are owned and managed by Aspen Skiing Company (ASC), which represents
  
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• GorpCore or Not? Peak Performance Hosts Urban Rail Jam

  10-12-2025 12:12 via powder.com
  
  While some ski outerwear brands are working to broaden their consumer bases by blurring the line between technical apparel and high fashion, Peak Performance is taking a different approach.
  Rather than bringing GORE-TEX ski shells to the city and calling it 'gorpcore,' they decided to bring skiing to the city, and the result was simply 'core.'
  In honor of the brand's second storefront opening in Vancouver, British Columbia, Peak Performance teamed up with CHEF LLC, Red Bull Canada, UBC Ski &
  
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