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• Ski Mountaineering at the Milan Cortina 2026 Olympics—Everything You Need To Know

  12-12-2025 23:39 via powder.com
  
  Cameron Smith of Team USA in action during the Sprint Race during the 2025 ISMF Ski Mountaineering World Championships Sprint Race on March 6, 2025 in Monthey, Switzerland.FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP via Getty ImagesWhat Is Ski Mountaineering?Ski Mountaineering, or SkiMo as it is often referred, will make its much-anticipated debut as the newest Winter Olympic sport at the Milan-Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games.Olympic SkiMo will bring together 36 competitors (18 men, 18 women) competing for t
  
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• Telluride Ski Patrol's Contract Negotiations Are Heating Up

  12-12-2025 23:15 via powder.com
  
  Telluride Professional Ski Patrol's contract negotiations with the resort's parent company, Teleski, have reached a critical point.
  As the ski area opened for the 2025/26 ski season earlier this month, its ski patrollers officially started work without a contract.
  The union then announced that it rejected Teleski's most recent contract offer on Thursday, December 11, 2025.Keep reading for more.The 2026 POWDER Photo Annual is here! Look for a print copy on a newsstand near you, or click here
  
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• National Weather Service Issues Warnings as Widespread Snow Hits Multiple States

  12-12-2025 22:55 via powder.com
  
  Widespread cold and snow are set to hit several states across the northern half of the United States ahead of the weekend, where the National Weather Service has issued Winter Storm Warnings and Winter Weather Advisories, advising of slick roads and challenging travel conditions.The band of chilly weather stretches from eastern Montana through West Virginia, also including the Dakotas, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio. Parts of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, too, face National Weather Servic
  
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• The Professional Skier's Guide To Whitefish, Montana

  12-12-2025 22:07 via powder.com
  
  Sponsored StoryWhen Parkin Costain was young, he had a ski routine he called “dishwashers.”He’d find a dense clump of trees, which weren’t uncommon at his home resort of Whitefish Mountain Resort, Montana, and ski straight through them. Did he ever get taken out by the trees? Nope. “I was pretty good with my line choice,” he said. Costain maintained that skill into adulthood. Now a globetrotting professional skier, he’s appeared in Teton Gravity Res
  
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• Washington Ski Season Delay Continues, but Hope May Be on the Horizon

  12-12-2025 21:25 via powder.com
  
  As a period of heavy rain and flooding passes through Washington, the outlook for local skiers is looking grimmer—and wetter—with resorts revealing that, no, the chairlifts won’t be spinning this weekend.Still, cooler temperatures could start to turn the season around as soon as next week.Keep reading for more.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 your front door.Mission Ridge's Mimi
  
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• Snowmobiler Rescued After "Very Large" Avalanche Buries Them in Montana Backcountry

  12-12-2025 20:30 via powder.com
  
  In the backcountry near Cooke City, Montana, a snowmobiler was fully buried for between 12 and 15 minutes after being caught by a “very large” avalanche, but survived, according to local avalanche forecasters.The Gallatin National Forest Avalanche Center first encountered and reported the slide on Thursday, later learning more details about the buried snowmobiler.The Center said that the snowmobiler was wearing an avalanche transceiver and riding with a partner, but it isn’t kn
  
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• American Ski Legend Lindsey Vonn Claims Historic Victory in Switzerland

  12-12-2025 18:38 via powder.com
  
  Another chapter has been added to the fairytale comeback story of American ski racing legend Lindsey Vonn.On Friday, she sped down the downhill course in St. Moritz, Switzerland, and, with the fastest time of the day, won and set a new record—on a reconstructed knee, no less. Vonn, 41, is in her second season after exiting retirement with dreams of competing at the upcoming Winter Olympics in Italy. With the win in Switzerland, she became the oldest skier ever to win a World Cup race.
  
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• Editor's Picks: The Best Ski Helmets of 2026

  12-12-2025 18:00 via powder.com
  
  Powder aims to feature only the best products and services.If you buy something via one of our links, we may earn a commission.Staying safe on the mountain is no joke, and wearing a ski helmet is a great way to increase your margins for error. They have been shown to reduce the chances of a head injury by nearly 60 percent, one of the leading contributors of death following a ski crash. They protect from skull fractures and lower the likelihood of concussions or traumatic brain injuries, all of
  
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• Chairlift Chatter: How to Find Dopamine When Your Off-Season Won't End

  12-12-2025 17:09 via powder.com
  
  Intro.If there’s a common thread that ties our staff together (other than the obvious of our employer and our mutual obsession with skiing), it’s that we’re all passionate writers, believe it or not. It’s true that while you might read mostly gear pieces from Max, news from Ian and Matt, and news, with a sprinkling of gear and feminist propaganda from me, we all enjoy branching out from time to time.For some time now, the four of us have been considering how we could &lsq
  
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