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• Giveaway: Win a Pair of Ellis Kanso 106s and a Copy of POWER Magazine

  06-10-2026 23:50 via powder.com
  Are you interested in winning free skis and a free issue of POWDER Magazine’s soon-to-be-released print magazine? (If you answered no please check your pulse).
  The Ellis Kanso 106 earned an Editors’ Choice nod from POWDER for FW26/27, and now one of you will be taking a pair home. The winner gets one pair in their choice of length ($1,049 MSRP), plus a copy of the new POWDER print issue.
  Keep reading for how to enter, giveaway rules, and more. Good luck!
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• Photos: Killington Turns On Snow Guns As Ski Season Inches Closer

  06-10-2026 21:11 via powder.com
  Can you hear that? It’s the sound of snow guns clicking on at Killington, Vermont. On Tuesday, October 6, as temperatures plunged to near freezing, the resort underwent its first major snowmaking test of the season.
  In total, Killington’s snowmaking team operated six fan guns in three separate locations: four fan guns at the bottom of Superstar and two new SMI Super Puma fan guns on Mouse Trap and Lower Skyeburst, both of which were purchased a
  
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• Mikaela Shiffrin Announces Shift to Super-G and Giant Slalom for 26/27 Season

  06-10-2026 21:07 via powder.com
  With the 2026/27 World Cup season just around the corner, the greatest ski racer of all time (the G.O.A.T., if you will) took to Instagram and YouTube to address any questions and rumors about her plans for the season.
  For the last 16 years, Mikaela Shiffrin has dominated World Cup Alpine ski racing in the slalom discipline. As of the end of the 2025/26 season, Shiffrin has 73 wins and 99 podiums in World Cup Slalom races, and has won eight overall Crystal Globes in slalom. She also holds the re
  
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• $9 Lift Tickets Are Available at 9 Ski Resorts This Winter, Here's Where To Score

  06-10-2026 19:52 via powder.com
  The humble ski ticket is in a weird place.With the advent of multi-passes, they’ve become, in many places, wildly expensive, exceeding $100, $200, or even $300. That’s a fundamental shift in ski resort economics. And while you could argue that multi-passes, for all their complications, are a great deal for diehard skiers, there remains something special and nostalgic about going skiing for just a few bucks. 
  This winter, that dream doesn’t have to stay a dream. For the fir
  
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• Loon Proposes Massive Expansion That Includes Four Lifts and a New Peak

  06-10-2026 19:48 via powder.com
  Hot on the heels of a previously announced terrain expansion, Loon Mountain, New Hampshire, has shared plans to push its boundaries even further, tacking on an additional 280 skiable acres, another peak, and four new ski lifts.
  The proposed area borders the current South Peak area, just over the boundary line next to the Timber Town quad. Brian Norton, president and general manager of Loon Mountain, said in a release that it’ll deliver on progression, with the lower trails giving skiers an
  
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• The East Coast Records Its First Snowfall of the Season on New England's Tallest Peak

  06-10-2026 19:01 via powder.com
  Skiers have seen first flakes fall in Montana, California, Utah, Colorado, Oregon, and even Arizona this season, but the East Coast had been impatiently waiting for its first taste of winter, until now, that is.
  The Mt. Washington Observatory, located at 6,288 feet above sea level on Mt. Washington, New Hampshire, the Northeast’s tallest peak, saw its first snowfall of the season on October 5, 2026.
  “The first measurable snowfall of the season was recorded yesterday (October 5th), wi
  
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• The Season's First Major Winter Storm Is Starting To Take Shape

  06-10-2026 18:31 via powder.com
  Ski resorts from California to Alberta have recorded their first flakes of the season, but these storms have been small, and the snow hasn’t stuck around.That could change with a storm expected to hit the western U.S. next week, according to meteorologist Chris Tomer.
  Tomer, a popular meteorologist amongst skiers, said in his Mountain Weather Update for October 6, 2026, that a cold front is brewing in the Northern Rockies. It is expected to combine with moisture from Hurricane Rachel and d
  
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• Review: Armada AntiMatter 100 & AntiMatter 100W

  06-10-2026 16:32 via powder.com
  Fresh off the release of their live-scored, feature length, team film, Ornada, it seemed Armada skis could not stop mic-dropping cool stuff last winter. In one fell swoop, they added Ben Richards to the team and made the announcement by default when he climbed on top of the first FWT podium of the season with a pair of their new skis, the Antimatter 114, in hand. Richards, and the Antimatter, continued to dominate the FWT all winter long, but those details are beside the point. Designed by anoth
  
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• Review: 2027 Elan Ripstick 100 W

  06-10-2026 15:24 via powder.com
  The Elan Ripstick is perhaps the biggest dark horse in the all-mountain/freeride ski category. While many 100-ish underfoot freeride-oriented skis wind up somewhere along a Goldilocks scale (too soft, too aggressive, too similar), the Ripsticks seem to be just weird enough to stand alone. Developed with Elan’s W Studio athletes, the Ripstick 100 W hits that sweet spot mid-width in the line up, but has a shape that allows for much more than meets the eye. 
  While the Ripstick 100 W&rsqu
  
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• Meet the "Freight Train" Powder Ski Built for Skiers with Legs of Steel

  06-10-2026 15:17 via powder.com
  Ski metaphors grow on trees. They’re a dime a dozen. They’re as familiar as the furniture. Sorry not sorry—we’re just preparing you for the fact that, yes, this review is going to start out with another ski metaphor. Rossignol’s Sender Free 118, which traces its lineage back to the beloved Blacks Ops 118, feels like a monster truck. If you’re sick of all those bumps and jolts halfway through a powder day, these are the skis for you. That’s also true if h
  
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• These Are The Best Powder Skis of 2027

  06-10-2026 14:09 via powder.com
  It’s in our name, literally. As we can hopefully all agree on, powder skiing is objectively the best form of skiing, and dedicated powder skis make the whole experience even better. THis year, at Grand Targhee, we truly lucked out for conditions. A lackluster season elsewhere had crossing our fingers and hoping for the best, but Ullr delivered, and we got a week of testing powder skis in their natural habitat.
  Lucky for us, the shapes, flex patterns and the technology inside skis gets bett
  
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• Review: 2027 K2 Mindbender 101 and 101W Skis

  06-10-2026 14:02 via powder.com
  Welcome to class, kids. Today’s lesson: the K2 Mindbender 101, one of my favorite freeride-focused, mid-wide skis released in recent years.
  K2’s revamped line of Mindbender skis features a new damping technology called “Dark Matter,” which consists of small TPU blocks with metal fused to the edge of the ski. Check out the review of the Mindbender 96 for how this affects the ski’s performance on groomers.
  The K2 Mindbender 101, while only being 5mm wider than its sma
  
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• Berkshire East Receives $4.5 Million Grant From Massachusetts

  06-10-2026 11:49 via powder.com
  Massachusetts’s Berkshire East Ski Resort is set to receive a $4.5 million government grant to undertake a battery project for long-term energy storage.
  The project involves Inlyte Energy, a battery manufacturer, and CutPeak Energy, a clean-tech company developing battery storage projects at ski resorts. It centers on Inlyte’s specialty: iron sodium batteries, a new riff on existing battery technology that the company hopes can serve as an alternative to lithium-ion batteries and gen
  
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