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• Ski Industry Proxy Fight Heats Up as Vail Resorts and Oasis Make Their Cases

  03-11-2026 21:41 via POWDER
  In dueling letters, Vail Resorts and the shareholder that hopes to shake up the company’s nine-member board of directors, Oasis Management, each recently made their case as a proxy battle once mostly hidden from plain view spills further into the open.
  Oasis opened its letter by stating that it owns about 9.6% of Vail Resorts’ stock, equivalent to more than half a billion dollars. 
  Then, it offered a compliment, writing, “We believe [Vail Resorts] is one of the leading hospitality busines
  
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• Parkin Costain & Maggie Voisin to Host Inaugural Stumptown Film Festival

  03-11-2026 20:46 via POWDER
  If there’s anyone who knows how to curate a good roster of ski films and a good time, it’s Whitefish, Montana-based professional skiers Maggie Voisin and Parkin Costain.Between their laundry list of TGR segments and Flipbook, the solo project Costain produced, edited, and skied in (which just received an official Banff Mountain Film Nomination), Costain and Voisin are something of connoisseurs when it comes to ski films.
  For the last two years, the “Powder Cowboys” Voisin and Costain hav
  
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• Surprise! Mammoth Mountain Is Now Poised To Be the First Open West Coast Ski Resort

  03-11-2026 19:35 via POWDER
  It’s starting to look a little like Colorado on the West Coast.
  Just a day after Mt. Rose-Ski Tahoe, Nevada, confirmed that it would open for the season on Friday, November 6, Mammoth Mountain, California, had an announcement of its own to make: the resort is opening this week, too, but a day earlier on Thursday, November 5, starting at 8:30 a.m.
  Mammoth’s cheeky last-second announcement mirrored the back-and-forth that sometimes happens between Colorado’s early-season contenders, most rec
  
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• New Map Predicts How El Niño Will Affect Ski Season Nationwide

  03-11-2026 17:29 via POWDER
  El Niño is coming, and AccuWeather has a new forecast map about how it will affect ski season from California to Maine.
  “El Niño could bring a much better ski season to parts of the West, while prolonged warmth and less reliable snow may create tougher conditions for resorts across the Midwest and East,” writes AccuWeather. “The best ski conditions across the entire country are expected in Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Arizona, California and Nevada.”
  As for the Northwest, it’s a bit o
  
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• A Skier's Honest Review of Jim Morrison's New Film 'Everest: The Other Side'

  03-11-2026 12:07 via POWDER
  Hilaree Nelson was a skier’s skier. She embodied a level of soul that transformed the act of sliding on snow into a work of art. Along with her longtime ski and life partner, Jim Morrison, she claimed some of the most impressive descents in ski history. 
  In the film, Everest: The Other Side, the two set their sights on their biggest objective yet—the Hornbein Couloir. The Hornbein is situated on the middle face of the north side of Everest, a feature that holds almost 9,000 feet of vertical
  
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• Concerning 911 Text Leads to Overnight Rescue in Colorado's High Country

  03-11-2026 11:48 via POWDER
  Last week, rescuers in Colorado saved a hiker after she’d become trapped in the backcountry, sending a concerning and to-the-point 911 text that read: “Please help me.”
  The text came after dark on Thursday, October 29, according to Crested Butte Search & Rescue (CBSAR), which detailed the life-saving mission in a social media post.
  Their subject, a 37-year-old solo hiker, was on the Four Pass Loop between Aspen and Crested Butte. The route, CBSAR noted, spans 27 miles in the Maroon Bel
  
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