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• One Dead After Gondola Cabin Falls Down Mountain in Switzerland

  18-03-2026 21:06 via powder.com
  
  A 61-year-old woman died in an accident at the Swiss ski resort Engelberg-Titlis on Wednesday, March 18, 2026, when a gondola cabin detached from its cable and rolled down the mountain.Local police said the victim was the only person riding in the gondola cabin at the time.The outlet added that between 100 and 200 people were safely evacuated from about 40 other cabins on the gondola, which stopped after the accident.Strong winds were reported in the area on Wednesday, closing several local lift
  
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• Pennsylvania's Largest Ski Resort Will Be 100% Open After Impressive Snowmaking Efforts

  18-03-2026 19:58 via powder.com
  
  Skiing in Pennsylvania isn't for the weary.The majority of the snow is man-made, ice is common, and lift lines can stack up on weekends as the masses flee urban sprawl.Skiing in Pennsylvania this season, however, at least at Camelback and Blue Mountain, has been pretty darn fun. Both resorts have exceeded average snowfall, with 60-plus inches, and cold temperatures have been the norm for most of the season.The season has been so good that Camelback will attempt to remain open into May for the fi
  
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• Ski Resorts and Towns Digging Out After Historic Michigan Blizzard

  18-03-2026 19:56 via powder.com
  
  While much of the West is baking under a heat dome, towns and ski resorts in parts of Michigan are digging out after a massive storm brought feet of snow to the state that snarled roads, caused power outages, and closed schools.The National Weather Service’s Marquette office put it in frank terms.“When we said ‘potentially historic’ blizzard, we meant it,” the agency said in a post on X on Tuesday.The NWS said several records were broken at its office in Negaunee To
  
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• Live Report and Photos From The Snow League World Championships In Switzerland

  18-03-2026 18:46 via powder.com
  
  The Snow League has landed in the Swiss Alps for its final event of the 2025/26 season, and the World Championships.
  Just weeks after the 20206 Milan Cortina Olympic Games wrapped up, many of the world's best freeskiers will return to the halfpipe in hopes of being crowned the Snow League's first-ever World Champion later this week.
  The Snow League was created by Shaun White (does the man even need an intro?) to elevate athletes in the halfpipe discipline to household names and to build a model
  
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• Two Lake Tahoe Ski Resorts To Close Amid Unprecedented March Heat Wave

  18-03-2026 18:33 via powder.com
  
  At least two Lake Tahoe ski resorts, Homewood and Sierra-at-Tahoe, have said they will end their seasons early as an unprecedented March heat wave brings high temperatures to the West and bakes the mountain snowpack.Bryan Hickman, Sierra-at-Tahoe’s director of operations, said in a social media post on Tuesday that the resort was seeing near-record heat. That, of course, isn’t good news in the snow business.“Our team’s been doing an amazing job keeping everything alive,&r
  
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• Record-Setting Heat Wave To Affect Nearly Every Ski Resort In The West, Season Could End Early

  18-03-2026 18:25 via powder.com
  
  In case you've been living under a rock, this ski season has been less-than-ideal in terms of snowfall and cold temperatures across the West.Nearly every ski resort, from California up to Washington and east as far as Colorado, is reporting below-average snowfall totals and snowpack bases for this time of year. That's led to multiple ski areas in Utah, Idaho, and Oregon ending their seasons prematurely.Now, a record-setting heat wave is settling in across the entirety of the West, and ski resort
  
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• Skier Front Flips Off of One of Whistler's Most Feared Lines

  18-03-2026 16:52 via powder.com
  
  Tahoe local Isaac Kaufman is having a season to remember.The 20-year-old started the winter off strong by front flipping McConkey's at Palisades Tahoe; he qualified but had to withdraw from Jackson Hole's Kings & Queens of Corbet's after sending it too hard during practice, and now, he just front flipped Air Jordan at Whistler.For those out of the loop, Air Jordan is a cliff feature accessible from Whistler Blackcomb's Peak Express, on the Whistler side of the resort. It's a proving ground f
  
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• I Just Watched Natural Selection's New Super Sessions: Here Are My Honest Reactions

  18-03-2026 15:40 via powder.com
  
  The waiting game is over.The footage from Super Sessions, a new qualifying event for the ski side of the Natural Selection Tour, is officially live.
  It went down earlier this season at Palisades Tahoe, California. Now, after organizers cut up the proceedings into a neat package, we can find out who from the eight invited skiers punched their ticket to Alaska.These are my reactions to the inaugural event. Spoilers will come with it, so if you haven’t already watched Super Sessions, I recomm
  
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• Another Lake Tahoe Ski Resort Will Debut Parking Reservations Next Season

  18-03-2026 12:39 via powder.com
  
  New for next winter, Sierra-at-Tahoe, California, plans to implement parking reservations on holidays and weekends for skiers visiting its slopes, marking the addition of another ski resort with a traffic management system around Lake Tahoe, an often busy ski destination.The system will be in place between December 19, 2026, and April 4, 2027.The reservations, the ski resort noted, will be free for Sierra passholders and drivers with four or more people in their car (those with a child’s p
  
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• Aspen Has Its Allure, but This Is An Ode to Carbondale, Colorado

  18-03-2026 11:09 via powder.com
  
  We don’t have this where I come from.
  And I’m not talking about the caviar app at the on-mountain restaurant or the celebrity snowplowing down the main groomer. For once, the conversation about this town isn’t about Don Henley or Prince Bandar’s homes–abodes whose price tags equal a decent chunk of a small country’s GDP.
  We’re talking about Aspen, and we’re actually talking about skiing.My wife and I are making turns off of the Deep Temerity lift a
  
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• Alex Honnold, Famed Free-Solo Climber, Shares 5 Favorite Nevada Spots

  18-03-2026 10:00 via nytimes.com
  Celebrated for scaling rock walls and skyscrapers, the climber has won fans around the world. Now he’s inviting them to explore his home state.
  
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