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• Smugglers' Notch Adding 100 New Snow Guns Ahead of 2026-27 Season

  31-08-2026 20:52 via powder.com
  A Vermont ski area known and loved by local diehards is making major improvements to its snowmaking fleet with the addition of 100 new guns ahead of the 2026-27 season.
  The wide-ranging project at Smugglers’ Notch applies to all three of the ski area’s faces—Madonna, Sterling, and Morse—and aims to help the operations crew build a more durable base more efficiently and take greater advantage of early-season temperature dips.
  “Snowmaking is fundamental to the way we
  
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• Tickets Just Went On Sale for Zero G's New Movie In Truckee and Victor

  31-08-2026 20:32 via powder.com
  Zero G Films, an independent studio run by filmmaker Daniel Harp, has a new ski movie this year called ‘Lowtide’.Filmed in the Sierras and Tetons last season, Harp tasked his crew of skiers to make the most out of what will go down in history as one of the most disappointing seasons in recent memory.The snow was low, and the weather was warm, but that didn’t stop the Zero G film crew from making an absolute banger of a ski movie.
  The momentum around the film is growing, and Zer
  
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• "Unexploded Ordnance" Found On Trail Temporarily Closed Solitude Over The Weekend

  31-08-2026 20:08 via powder.com
  Regular weekend operations were interrupted at Solitude Mountain Resort on Sunday, August 30, 2026, due to a mysterious object found by mountain ops.The resort posted to social media Sunday morning to say Solitude Mountain Resort Patrol had identified an object they believed to be an unexploded ordnance, prior to the resort’s trails opening for the day.Patrol reportedly contacted the Unified Fire Authority and military personnel, who quickly arrived on scene to assess the situation. At the
  
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• Summer Snow Observed on Beartooth Highway, Montana's Famous Mountain Pass

  31-08-2026 19:29 via powder.com
  Although the Fall equinox is still a few weeks away, Mother Nature has gotten a head start on the changing of the seasons. Cold fronts moved across several parts of Washington, the Rockies, and Canada over the weekend, bringing snow to some higher elevations and marking the beginning of a seasonal shift.
  On Sunday, August 30, 2026, a low-pressure system moved across the Absaroka and Beartooth Mountains, bringing cold temperatures and precipitation above 10,000 feet. As temperatures dropped to fr
  
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• Winter Hype Builds as August Snow Falls at Washington Ski Resort

  31-08-2026 18:31 via powder.com
  The flakes are starting to fly.
  At Crystal Mountain, Washington, this past weekend brought a light flurry with modest accumulation visible at higher elevations, namely the ski resort’s iconic Silver King peak. The snow’s since melted per the ski area’s webcams, but that’s not unexpected—the first snow ahead of ski season rarely sticks around for long.
  While snow in August is far from unheard of in the mountains out West, Crystal did manage to beat its first snow fro
  
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• Cascade XC: New Owner Prepares for Winter

  31-08-2026 18:25 via nyskiblog.com
  With the recent purchase of Cascade XC, there’s a palpable stoke in the Tri-Lakes ski community. Ever since the sale of the ski center by the Adirondack Mountain Club, people have been talking. Will it open this winter? What’s going on with the trails and the lodge? My first exposure to Cascade XC was in the late 1990s. My wife and I drove to Mt van Hoevenberg over the Saint Lawrence Winter Carnival weekend. Organizers cancelled Saturday’s races because the » Read More &r
  
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• August Snowfall Transforms Canadian Ski Resorts as Opening Day Approaches

  31-08-2026 17:34 via powder.com
  Can you hear it? Can you smell it? Can you feel it? Winter is coming, friends.
  Yes, each passing day is a step closer to snowfall and cold temperatures, but a handful of ski resorts in British Columbia and Alberta got an intense, albeit brief, preview of winter weather over the past weekend (August 29-30, 2026).
  See below for the best photos and videos from the storm.Kicking Horse Eagle Eye webcam, August 30, 2026.Kicking Horse
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  Kicking Horse, which operates a mountain bike park in
  
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