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• Team USA Skier Mac Forehand Barely Misses Olympic Gold in Big Air

  17-02-2026 22:10 via powder.com
  
  The Men's Ski Big Air Finals for the 2026 Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics went down today, February 17, 2026, and an American skier left with a medal dangling around his neck.Mac Forehand, 24, from Connecticut, was one of the favorites to win Gold heading into today's finals, but was barely beaten by Norwegian skier Tormod Frostad.Frostad won Gold with a squeaky-clean right-nose butter double bio 1620 on his last run, which elevated his combined score to 195.50. Forehand finished with a score of 1
  
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• California Ski Resorts Close as Winter Storm Hammers Sierra Nevada

  17-02-2026 20:41 via powder.com
  
  It wasn’t so long ago that ski resorts, from California to Oregon, were temporarily shutting down because of a lack of snow amid a dry season that’s seen few powder days.Now, some have the opposite problem.As a major, snow-dense storm hit the Sierra Nevada, several ski resorts across California have announced that they won’t open on Tuesday, February 17, 2026.Mammoth Mountain, which is reporting between 27 and 39 inches of new snow, said that it’ll stay closed because of
  
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• I-80 Is Closed In Both Directions, Police Warn California Skiers To Stay Home

  17-02-2026 20:32 via powder.com
  
  The talk of the ski world is the blizzard that's currently dumping feet of snow across the Lake Tahoe region in California and Nevada.Interstate 80 (I-80) is the main thoroughfare for skiers and tourists to access Lake Tahoe from Sacramento and San Francisco to the west, and from Reno to the East.
  As of 11:00 a.m. PST on Tuesday, February 17, 2026, I-80 is closed in both directions as the biggest storm of the season dumps feet of snow."Should I stay or should I go? You should probably stay&helli
  
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• Val Bialas Opens in 2026

  17-02-2026 20:15 via nyskiblog.com
  Talk to any seasoned skier from the Utica area and they will likely have fond memories of Val Bialas. The ski center — named after Valentine Bialas, a local Olympic speed skater — opened in the 1954. It is one of the few municipality-owned ski areas in America. Val Bialas was a staple in the community for years. Over the last two decades unreliable winters and other economic factors have impacted the ski center’s operations. Over that time, Val has » Read More »
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• Up To 40 Inches of Snow Has Already Fallen on California's Ski Resorts as Huge Storm Slams the State

  17-02-2026 19:38 via powder.com
  
  You’ve likely heard the news by now: across the Sierra Nevada, ski resorts are getting absolutely hammered with snow. Just how much, you ask? A lot. There's already close to 40 inches at Mammoth Mountain, and this is just the beginning. More snow and stormy weather are expected throughout California this week. Keep scrolling for a list of current storm totals across the region.That, of course, is a boon for skiers. But it also means elevated avalanche danger (please, check t
  
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• Michigan Ski Patroller Roasts Littering Skiers: "It's Pretty Disgusting"

  17-02-2026 19:29 via powder.com
  
  A ski patroller at Boyne Mountain, Michigan, is pleading with guests to stop littering.In a short video shared to @patrollers_perspective, the patroller stands next to a heaping pile of trash in the snow.
  "I'm here with the trash we picked up from under our lift lines this morning. It's pretty disgusting," says the solemn patroller. "Please have some self-respect. Use the trash cans we have all over the mountain. Stop throwing trash off the lifts."Tap or click to watch the video below. Keep read
  
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• Avalanche Deposits "15 Feet" of Snow on Lake Tahoe Highway

  17-02-2026 18:43 via powder.com
  
  As a major winter storm hits the Sierra Nevada, the Nevada Department of Transportation (NDOT) crews are hard at work keeping roadways safe and clear. On Tuesday morning, February 17, that involved using an avalanche control system to bring down 15 feet of snow across the Mt. Rose Highway summit, a stretch of road that connects Reno, Nevada, to Lake Tahoe area ski resorts, like Mt. Rose-Ski Tahoe.Traffic was stopped, and after the avalanche was released, NDOT said that i
  
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• "My Leg Is Still In Pieces": Lindsey Vonn Returns To The U.S.

  17-02-2026 18:32 via powder.com
  
  Lindsey Vonn's horrific crash in the Women's Downhill at the 2026 Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics has been one of the top stories of the Games.Charging back from retirement, Vonn won multiple times on the World Cup stage leading up to the Games, but suffered a torn ACL in a crash just a week prior to the Games starting.Despite the torn ACL, Vonn assured fans that her crash in the Downhill final wasn't related. “My ACL and past injuries had nothing to do with my crash whatsoever," wrote Vonn
  
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• Skier Leaps From Vail Chairlift After Too Many People Loaded

  17-02-2026 17:26 via powder.com
  
  Modern ski resorts, such as Vail Mountain in Colorado, use a host of chairlifts and gondolas to ferry skiers up the mountain.Many newer chairlifts hold four, six, or even eight people at a time. A Vail skier learned that paying attention to how many people a chair can hold before loading it is essential to everybody's safety. You'll see what I mean.A video posted to Reddit on Friday, February 13, 2026, shows a skier leaping from Vail's 'Sourdough Express Lift' after five skiers loaded a chair me
  
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• Why I Still Miss Waiting Tables In A Ski Town

  17-02-2026 16:58 via powder.com
  
  I really don’t hate my current job.And, no, I’m not defending any ambivalence I might feel toward my dream side-gig writing about skiing. I’m referring to the one I’m at forty hours a week: desk-bound, making sales, plugging orders into a computer, and navigating the–shall we call it–interestingly mundane landscape of day job office politics. I also write, but instead of jetting off to parts unknown to cover adventure, exquisite cuisine, and over-the-head turn
  
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• Teenage Skier Dies In Horrific Chairlift Accident at Canadian Resort

  17-02-2026 16:40 via powder.com
  
  Centre Vorlage, a small ski area near Ottawa, Canada, was closed for multiple days this past week after a horrific accident unfolded on Wednesday, February 11, 2026.According to CBC, the 13-year-old girl was on a class trip to the ski area. She was reportedly getting ready to unload the chairlift at the top of the hill when "her clothes became tangled in the machinery."The ski area decided the best way to free her from the chair was to bring it back to the bottom of the small hill. The skier was
  
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• Parents of Some Winter Olympians Face Extreme Fear as Their Children Compete

  17-02-2026 14:27 via nytimes.com
  When your child races headfirst down an ice chute, leaps off ski jumps or performs snowboard tricks in midair, a medal may not be the main thing you pray for.
  
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• With Big Air Silver, Eileen Gu's Olympic Medal Streak Remains Unbroken

  17-02-2026 01:45 via powder.com
  
  Two events so far at these Olympics. Two medals, too.China’s Eileen Gu is well on her way to repeating an Olympic medal hat trick after placing second in the women's big air competition on Monday. She earned silver last week in the women’s slopestyle competition.Her streak continues. Gu, at 22 years old, still hasn’t entered an Olympic competition without earning a medal. In fact, she hasn’t placed lower than second. At the 2022 Beijing Games, she nabbed two golds an
  
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