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• Colorado Town Considers Purchasing $100MM+ Ski Resort

  19-11-2024 17:48 via powder.com
  
  What if your hometown owned the local ski area? What would be different? How could the experience be better?
  Residents of Nederland, Colorado are currently asking themselves these questions after it was revealed that the town is considering purchasing Eldora Mountain Resort, a popular ski resort located just 10 minutes up the road."It’s a bit of a moonshot, but it’s a moonshot that would create resiliency within our community, so I think it’s worth exploring for that reason alo
  
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• From Lifts to Lodges, These Are the Biggest Improvements Coming to Utah's Ski Resorts

  07-10-2026 21:33 via powder.com
  It’s been a busy off-season for Utah’s ski resorts, with several new lifts and other improvements set to come online next winter.
  From a small step forward for Deer Valley’s hulking Expanded Excellence project to an updated lodge at Alta Ski Area, these are some of the most notable changes you’ll spot across the Beehive State.New Ski Lifts
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  Deer Valley: Hail Peak Express
  Visible from Deer Valley’s new East Village base area, the Hail Peak Express
  
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• Review: 2027 Nordica Santa Ana 97

  07-10-2026 20:57 via powder.com
  If ever there was a 2008 Subaru Legacy Outback of skis, it’s the Nordica Santa Ana 97. Versatile, reliable, sturdy, but when you give it to a dirtbag that will use the hell out of it or really hit the gas, it’ll surprise you with just how sendy and rad it can be.Maybe that’s a far-fetched analogy, but the Santa Ana 97 really does compliment the rest of the Santa Ana line as truly one of the most versatile women’s skis on the market that doesn’t make the same comprom
  
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• Review: 2027 Ellis Meraki 112 Skis

  07-10-2026 20:55 via powder.com
  Powder aims to feature only the best products and services. If you buy something via one of our links, we may earn a commission.New ski brands are few and far between these days, so it’s always a pleasure to see someone fresh throwing their hat in the ring. Now in their second official season, Ellis Skis is making a splash with a small line of indepedently-produced freeride skis. When the brand first launched two years ago, I spoke with Kevin Schaefer and Sean O’Brien, the founders o
  
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• Canadian Resort's New Technology Detects When Skiers Don't Lower The Safety Bar on Chairlift

  07-10-2026 19:44 via powder.com
  Many American skiers don’t put the safety bar down on the chairlift.
  We’re not going to speculate on the reasons why, but 13% of over 6,000 skiers told us in a poll last year that they never put the bar down, no matter the circumstances. We have a feeling this number is much higher in practice, but regardless, it’s no secret that skiers in states like California, Colorado, and Utah prefer bar up over bar down.
  Some chairlifts in the United States are still without safety bars,
  
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• Skiers Make First Turns of the Season at Humble Alaskan Ski Area

  07-10-2026 18:51 via powder.com
  It’s October, and folks are already skiing.
  At Alaska’s Arctic Valley Ski Area, more than a foot of snow tallied up last week and, as the mountain put it in a social media post, “it was great to see so many folks out getting after it too!”
  Arctic Valley shared images of its slopes, showing solid October coverage and, if you look closely, tracks left behind by go-getter skiers who presumably ventured uphill under their own power.
  Since the season hasn’t officially st
  
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• Review: 2027 Salomon QST 100

  07-10-2026 16:22 via powder.com
  Ski companies like to throw around the phrase “all-mountain skis” a whole bunch, but with so many skis on the market in the category now, it feels like the term has gotten a bit diluted. In an ideal world, an all-mountain ski would carve well on hardpack, bust through re-frozen crud and skied-off powder, float just enough in soft snow, tear up chalk, and still be fun popping off sidehits or natural features. This combination exists, but rarely, and often these skis make compromises i
  
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• Review: 2027 Stöckli Nela 93 Skis

  07-10-2026 13:56 via powder.com
  Swiss ski maker Stöckli is known for their high-end, performance-oriented skis, particularly in the ski racing world. However, when the technology used to make skis for racers like Marco Odermatt is applied to an all-mountain or freeride ski, the result is an extremely well-built ski that can take you further than a racing piste.Stöckli’s women’s specific freeride series, the Nela, takes design elements from their flagship freeride ski, the Stormrider, but puts it in a smal
  
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• Cody Cirillo's New Film Chases First Descents in Bolivia's Andes

  07-10-2026 12:09 via powder.com
  Few skiers have a knack for adventure like Cody Cirillo, and even fewer have an adventure buddy as talented with a camera as Matthew Tufts.The two have traveled around the globe documenting everything from bike-to-ski missions in Iceland to finding pow via camel in Mongolia. Most recently, Cirillo, Tufts, Fer Ferrandez, and cinematographer Isaiah Boyle ventured to South America to ski some of the highest points off the beaten path.
  The fifth-largest country in South America, Bolivia shares borde
  
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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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• Giveaway: Win a Pair of Ellis Kanso 106 Skis and a Copy of POWDER 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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• The "Strava Outlaws" Set a New Skiing Speed Record on The Middle Teton's Ellingwood Couloir

  05-10-2026 22:47 via powder.com
  To watch Jim Ryan and Madison Rose Ostergren ski is a thing of beauty.
  They were the immediate favorites to win POWDER’s inaugural Sun Valley Stampede back in the spring of ’26, and while neither left with the top prize, the general consensus amongst the crowd was: “Holy sh*t. Those two can ski.”
  In the self-titled Jim & Mads Show on YouTube, the pair document their intense, borderline unhinged skiing endeavors for the world to see. The episodes follow a familiar form
  
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• FIS Leaning Into AI Judging, Teases New Street Style Freeski Events

  05-10-2026 19:55 via powder.com
  Following the 2026 FIS Autumn Meetings in Geneva, Switzerland, last week, FIS committees have agreed on and announced several key priorities ahead of the 2026/27 World Cup season.Sub-Committees agreed on goals to build more stable, multi-year World Cup calendars, strengthen development pathways, improve event safety and delivery, and ensure growth in visibility and commercial value across ski and snowboard disciplines.
  With the upcoming competition season marking the start of a new Olympic cycle
  
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• Alterra Mountain Company Names Former Green Beret as New CEO

  05-10-2026 19:26 via powder.com
  Several months after announcing the departure of its previous chief executive, Alterra Mountain Company has named a new head, Kelly Vohs, a former Green Beret and longtime business leader. 
  Vohs has spent almost three decades leading “customer-facing, operationally complex businesses across hospitality, real estate, and technology,” Alterra said in a news release.
  His most recent role was as CEO of SafetyCulture, an operations platform for businesses. Vohs’ new role with A
  
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• Review: 2027 Salomon QST Blank

  05-10-2026 15:36 via powder.com
  Powder aims to feature only the best products and services. If you buy something via one of our links, we may earn a commission.There’s an aspect to ski design that I like to call the “sweet spot.” It’s a term I was first introduced to by the hardgoods manager of the first ski shop I worked at (Christy Sports in Boulder) when we were out getting to know the fresh crop of skis all the way back in 2011. Shoutout Dan. He explained it to me as that secret sauce a ski has wher
  
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• Review: 2027 Armada Antimatter 114 Skis

  05-10-2026 15:05 via powder.com
  Back in early January, Armada invited me and a few other gear editors to Silverton for a few days of sampling what was soon to be their all-new line of freeride skis. I flew down to Durango, peering out the plane window at a bleak start to winter in Colorado. It was dry. Like really dry. I didn’t really know what to expect when I hopped off the plane and met Max Palm and the Armada crew at the baggage claim, but I did know we were there to be among the first people to ski the new Antimatte
  
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• Review: 2027 Stöckli Stormrider 108 Skis

  05-10-2026 14:45 via powder.com
  It’s been a while since the phrase “quiver-killer” has been used unironically. Yes, the phrase is still poignant to describe a “versatile” ski (another buzzword of the aughts and teens), but the ski marketing wizards got a bit carried away. It didn’t take long for pure groomer skis to be labeled “quiver-killers” to move product.
  The problem with skiing the Stöckli Stormrider 108 in 2027 is that it’s hard not to call it a “quiver-ki
  
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• The Ski of Choice for Atomic Freeriders Is Built for Big Lines, but Surprisingly Nimble in the Trees

  05-10-2026 14:05 via powder.com
  Atomic introduced the Maverick 115 CTi as the widest and hardest-charging member of the Maverick line. It’s an athlete-designed ski ready to take on the gnarliest venues of the Freeride World Tour under the feet of skiers like Craig Murray and Justine Dufour-Lapointe, the famously rugged spine faces of Alaska with legend Sage Cattabriga-Alosa, or bouncing around in the trees of British Columbia. 
  Is their co-sign and input worth a damn? Sure thing. As the associated athletes would imp
  
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