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• Free Ski Map Guessing Game Brings 'Wordle' to the Mountains

  24-07-2026 20:11 via powder.com
  A few years ago, the New York Times bought Wordle, a simple but devilishly clever word game from software engineer Josh Wardle.
  Since then, the game’s become a household object, with fans—or addicts, depending on who you ask—logging in each day to test their skill and luck. Now, skiers have something of an equivalent. Based more on the geography-focused Wordle spin-off Worldle, Resortle uses ski area maps rather than words or locations (try saying that ten times fast).&nbs
  
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• New Flights Added for Skiers From PDX To Steamboat Springs, Colorado

  24-07-2026 19:13 via powder.com
  Pacific Northwest skiers looking to change up their Cascade cement ski days now have the option for a direct flight to the home of Champagne Powder.
  On July 23, 2026, Alaska Airlines announced a brand-new seasonal nonstop flight from Portland International Airport (PDX) to Yampa Valley Regional Airport (HDN), which sits just outside Steamboat Springs, Colorado.
  The new route begins operations on February 11, 2027, and will fly direct from Oregon to Colorado on Thursdays and Saturdays through Mar
  
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• New Hampshire Ski Area Names New General Manager

  24-07-2026 18:52 via powder.com
  Ragged Mountain, New Hampshire, has a new general manager, Alan Wickstrom, officially set to start on August 17, 2026.The name Wickstrom may be familiar to locals. Previously, he led mountain operations at Ragged. And for the past four years, he worked as vice president of operations at Loon Mountain, “helping run one of the largest, most complex operations in the Northeast,” Ragged wrote in a social media post.“He’s a Danbury local, a passionate Ragged skier, and—a
  
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• New HBO Comedy Will Focus on Ski Resort Lifties and Corporate Takeovers

  24-07-2026 17:52 via powder.com
  "I have a show in development," actor and comedian Jimmy Tatro told the hosts of the Pardon My Take podcast on the Wednesday, July 22, 2026 episode. "It's a comedy about four best friends that live on a snowboard mountain that gets bought by an Ikon Pass type of a company, and their mountain is about to start getting, like, gentrified.""It's just like a half-hour comedy that we sold to HBO, and we're just waiting on a final word," Tatro tells the hosts.While the series' release date and cast hav
  
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• Chile's Famous Ski Resort Begs Public To Stop Snow Dances: "We Want To Ski!"

  24-07-2026 12:25 via powder.com
  How much snow is too much snow? The folks at Ski Portillo, Chile, are finding out the answer the hard way.One of the strongest winter storms in the continent's history has finally parted, but not before dumping a mind-melting 466cm (183 inches) of snow over the last seven days. In other words, it has snowed 15 feet in seven days, which is too much to operate a ski resort safely.The slopes of Ski Portillo have been closed for most of the week, except for a few windows of calmer weather, and the r
  
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