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• Rumors Spread That Keystone Is Opening Next Weekend, but Hold Your Horses

  13-10-2026 21:27 via powder.com
  The conditions look promising. The track record is there. And, as some avid skiers noticed, tickets are on sale for Saturday, October 24, 2026. Is that opening day for Keystone Resort, Colorado?!
  Maybe. Maybe not. We can’t say quite yet.
  A representative from Keystone clarified in an email to POWDER that the resort does not have an official opening day aside from its previously shared plan to open “as early as possible” when conditions allow.
  “The ability to buy a single-
  
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• Utah's Ski Resorts Tally Multiple Inches of Snow With More on the Way

  13-10-2026 20:26 via powder.com
  In Utah, winter’s showing out. 
  All across the state, from Brian Head to the Cottonwood Canyons, resorts clocked snowfall, some of it serious. Snowbird’s snow stake is sitting encouragingly around the ten-inch mark, with some flakes still falling.The upper reaches of Alta Ski Area are covered in a pristine, white coat. At the top of the Crest lift, Brighton’s webcam is all fogged up, in a good way.
  Alta’s Sugarloaf Peak webcam on Tuesday afternoon.Alta Ski Area
  A win
  
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• Deadlines to Purchase Ikon and Epic Passes Are Quickly Approaching, Get Yours Before the Season Starts

  13-10-2026 19:59 via powder.com
  Snow is falling in states like California, Colorado, Utah, and Montana, and everybody here at POWDER is freaking out. The ski season is quickly approaching, and we can’t wait.
  We don’t know when the first ski resort will open yet, but Arapahoe Basin on the Ikon Pass and Keystone on the Epic Pass have both said they intend to open “as soon as possible”.With potentially feet of snow in the forecast and ample snowmaking temperatures, our guess is that Coloradans will be slid
  
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• Widespread Winter Storm Brings First Snowfall to Colorado's Ski Resorts

  13-10-2026 19:27 via powder.com
  Somewhere, someone must have been doing their snow dances. Across Colorado, ski resorts like Keystone and Crested Butte just reported their first flakes of the season. 
  The snowfall was largely modest but more than enough to get the juices flowing. Colorado, as ski bums know, is home to a high concentration of resorts that aim to open as soon as they can. Depending on the weather, that could mean lift-served skiing before the end of the month.
  At Vail Mountain, the iconic Back Bowls sign go
  
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• Ski In Jeans Day Is Back at Jackson Hole, Lift Tickets Are Just $35

  13-10-2026 19:24 via powder.com
  Do you like cheap lift tickets and skiing in denim? Well, good news! Jackson Hole Mountain Resort’s (JHMR) annual ‘Ski in Jeans’ day is back for a fourth consecutive year.
  Taking place on December 4th this season, skiers and snowboarders who show up wearing denim can score a $35 day lift ticket, and three-day lift tickets valid December 4-6, 2026, are just $199. Translation: You can ski Jackson Hole for three days for less than the cost of one. Just make sure you pack that deni
  
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• They May Not Be Convenient, but These Are the Skis You Want on the Best Day of the Season

  13-10-2026 15:41 via powder.com
  For good reason, truly massive skis tend to scare off a good portion of skiers. Not only is the main use case (super deep powder days) an exceedingly rare occasion for most of us, the technique and strength required to pilot a pro-level big mountain ski is a bit more than the average skier can realistically handle. However, there’s something just deeply satisfying about clicking into a pair of absolute boats to blast through grin-inducing depths of snow on a powder day. That’s where
  
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• 2027 Women's Ski Buying Guide

  13-10-2026 14:19 via powder.com
  It’s no secret that many of the reviews written about gear are written by men and that shopping for ski gear in a retail setting can often mean getting mansplained by 21-year-old with a sorry excuse for a mustache. Finding ski reviews for women’s skis is like asking men the best spot to go pee outside. Sure, the spot they find you might technically work, but you also might find yourself trying to cover your ass in a place where you really don’t want to. In contrast, if you ask
  
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• Review: 2027 Völkl Revolt 101

  13-10-2026 13:56 via powder.com
  Brands big and small like to tout the fact that their skis are athlete designed, driven, inspired, or whatever marketing term is in vogue at the moment. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with that, but it does run the risk of pigeonholing that ski’s design into the quirks and nuances of a particular athlete’s skiing style. For the average skier, that can make said ski unapproachable, or worse–completely unusable.Doing away with the standard single pro-model philosophy that
  
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• Skiing's Most Iconic Accessory Gets An Update

  13-10-2026 13:53 via powder.com
  How do you keep your skis together when carrying them? Odds are you probably use a ski strap. Turns out, that same strap can be used for a million other things. In fact, I’ve seen these small elastic straps in the wildest places, from literally holding small airplanes together in the Alaskan bush, to industrial uses all over the world. But how much do you know about the history of the ski strap?
  Now often imitated, the ski strap as we know it today first came to be in 1982 in the Voile fac
  
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• Daring Skiers Take Snowless Skiing To New Heights With Absurd Stunt Reel

  13-10-2026 12:38 via powder.com
  How often do you go through a pair of skis? One season? Three seasons? A decade?
  It all depends, really, on what you do with them. Some (myself included) fall into the “tools not jewels camp.” They don’t seek out rocks, per se, but if the decision is between a few core shots or not farming some early-season pow, they’ll take the former option. Then, there’s a bonus third option: those who seem to treat their skis with outright disdain.
  Enter BPC, the series of video
  
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• Snowmaking Is Underway at Mt. Rose as Tahoe's Earliest Opening Approaches

  13-10-2026 11:47 via powder.com
  With the highest base elevation of any ski resort in the Lake Tahoe Region (8,260 ft.), Mt. Rose, Nevada, is known for being the first open, and appears well on its way to take the title again in 2026.
  Temperatures plummeted this weekend after an unseasonably warm streak, and Mt. Rose reported that it conducted its first snowmaking session in the early morning hours of Monday, October 12, 2026.
  “It’s always exciting to see the first taste of winter, and as an added bonus, to be able
  
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