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• An Unlikely South American Country Just Hosted Its First-Ever Ski Championships

  16-09-2026 18:37 via powder.com
  No mountains? No problem. 
  Uruguay, the South American country known for its sunny beaches and star soccer players, just hosted its first-ever alpine ski national championships with a pair of giant slalom races.
  There’s an obvious catch, though. 
  As with the surfing events held during the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics (Paris isn’t known for its big waves, of course—Tahiti proved to be a good workaround), the ski race’s organizers had to contend with geography. Afte
  
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• Basin Mountain: East Face and Ribbon Slides

  16-09-2026 15:30 via nyskiblog.com
  Over the past several summers, my brother Bailey and our friend Brian have been exploring landslides that scour the mountainsides across the High Peaks. Many of our objectives come from the book “The Adirondack Slide Guide: An Aerial View of the High Peaks Region” by Drew Haas, which contains images of most of the major slides and their bestowed names. Throughout the years, we’ve managed to climb over 100 slides, including some formed after the book was published in 2006. &raqu
  
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• T-Pain To Don His Electronic Alter Ego "TEDDY PAIN" at Palisades Tahoe This Winter

  16-09-2026 12:00 via powder.com
  A three day music festival at Palisades Tahoe, California, is back, and this time, the singer, songwriter, and rapper behind hits like Buy U a Drank and I’m N Luv, T-Pain, will deliver some of the tunes.
  But this won’t be exactly the same T-Pain that set speakers and dance floors ablaze in the 2000s. Instead, T-Pain’s performing at Tahoe Live as TEDDY PAIN, his electronic music alter ego.
  He’ll be joined by several other big names in electronic music, spanning genres like
  
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