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• 5 Skiers Didn't Get To Compete at The Freeride World Championships, Here's Why

  04-02-2026 22:46 via powder.com
  
  The inaugural Freeride World Championships took place earlier this week and brought together the best freeride skiers and snowboarders from 17 countries to compete for the title of World Champion.
  The day started with a weather delay due to poor visibility and clouds that caused a significant delay to the competition's start. Once things cleared, the first category, Snowboard Men, ran without delay. Snowboard Women and Ski Men followed up.
  Ski Women was the last category of the day to drop in, w
  
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• Dozens of Skiers Rescued From Gondola at Gore Mountain

  04-02-2026 22:29 via powder.com
  
  The New York State Police and New York State Department of Environmental Conservation's forest rangers responded to calls from Gore Mountain after the Adirondacks ski area's Northwoods gondola stopped today.
  Calls for rescue were made around 10:35 a.m. EST after a non-emergency mechanical alignment issue with a component of the lift system was detected. In accordance with the ski resort's evacuation procedure, the gondola was stopped immediately.Around 20 gondola cars were stopped, stranding 67
  
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• Uphill Skiers Keep Breaking The Rules at Black Mountain, Maine

  04-02-2026 21:20 via powder.com
  
  Black Mountain of Maine (not to be confused with Black Mountain in New Hampshire) is giving skiers a slap on the wrist for breaking uphill travel rules.
  The ski area took to social media to remind folks that they need a ticket for uphill access.The Facebook post states that Mountain Ops recently encountered multiple skiers without an uphill pass who were utilizing the mountain's uphill access route, and that doing so was technically considered theft of services."Not a reminder we love posting, b
  
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• How The Cult of POWDER Magazine Started—Founder Jake Moe on New Podcast

  04-02-2026 19:23 via powder.com
  
  Professional skier, accomplished trail runner, mental health advocate, and talented filmmaker Drew Petersen has started a new endeavor—a podcast.Dubbed the Drew Petersen Podcast, the show centers around chairlift conversations with some of the biggest names in skiing.
  The show launched yesterday, February 3, 2026, with three episodes: Angel Collinson, Caroline Gleich, and POWDER Magazine co-founder Dave Moe. You can watch or listen to all three episodes on Petersen's YouTube channel, on Sp
  
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• $99 Heli Skiing Returns To Colorado After Public Reaction

  04-02-2026 18:47 via powder.com
  
  Colorado's Silverton Mountain isn't your run-of-the-mill ski resort.There's one chairlift, and guides are required to lead you around the mountain for most of the season. Oh, and there's a helicopter.Silverton used to be known for offering individual heli rides for just $99. For less than the cost of a third of a modern lift ticket at a major ski resort, skiers and snowboarders were whisked to 13,000+ feet above sea level and treated to bucket-list-worthy descents.For whatever reason, perhaps th
  
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• The First Ski Descent of Canada's Deltaform Mountain

  04-02-2026 18:18 via powder.com
  
  Years ago, when Guillaume “Gee” Pierrel was at Moraine Lake, he was a tourist. The glittering body of water near Banff, Alberta, is ringed by a series of towering, jagged peaks that, historically, appeared on the back of Canadian twenty-dollar bills. Like many other sightseers who’ve stopped by to soak in an unforgettable alpine view, Pierrel took a picture. He thought the peaks were protected, and you couldn’t climb them.However, those mountains, part of the Valley
  
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• A New First Ski Descent on Canada's Deltaform Mountain

  04-02-2026 18:18 via powder.com
  
  Years ago, when Guillaume “Gee” Pierrel was at Moraine Lake, he was a tourist. The glittering body of water near Banff, Alberta, is ringed by a series of towering, jagged peaks that, historically, appeared on the back of Canadian twenty-dollar bills. Like many other sightseers who’ve stopped by to soak in an unforgettable alpine view, Pierrel took a picture. He thought the peaks were protected, and you couldn’t climb them.However, those mountains, part of the Valley
  
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• The Death of the Ski Bum, And Imagining Their Return

  04-02-2026 17:28 via powder.com
  
  Shrouded in cliché and nostalgia, at once our heroes and our foil, the ski bum has become so legendary that its true nature is now nearly impossible to grasp.
  At once foundational, mysterious, and perhaps more lately dosed with a dash of irrelevance, this countercultural figure inhabits a sort of purgatory in the modern skiing consciousness. Subject to both reassessment and wistful regard, nothing else might strike the ski world with ambivalence as much as the ski bum. But this figur
  
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• The World's First Skiing Robot Is Lame

  04-02-2026 16:56 via powder.com
  
  This is not a news story. This is a roast.Chinese company LimX Dynamics recently posted a YouTube video of its TRON 1 robot "conquering" the slopes of a ski area in -20°C. The small, bipedal robot, attached to two small skis, navigates a flat slope amid fanfare and hubbub."Graceful slope run, zero skidding all the way," reads one caption of the 48-second video. "Cruising the runs steady as a pro," reads another as the robot bumbles and fumbles its way down an embarrassingly flat trail.Robots
  
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• Olympic Skiers Have Some Pretty Cool Sponsors, We're Jealous

  04-02-2026 16:08 via powder.com
  
  It's no secret that brands love capitalizing on the many advertising opportunities provided to them by the Olympics.
  After all, what better way to sell cereal and energy drinks than with the face of your favorite Olympic skier?
  On the flip side, these brand endorsements are also a great way for skiers (and athletes of all kinds!) to get paid. While some ski brands certainly have money, it's usually pennies compared to, say, a car company.
  So, many skiers turn to non-endemics, or brands that aren
  
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