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• Different strokes: wild swimming in Spain

  10-04-2016 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Forget the costas – mountain rivers and clear lakes offer the best escape from Spain’s summer heat. The authors of the new Wild Swimming Spain choose favourite bathing spots within reach of the big cities Just over an hour from Madrid, the granite outcrops of La Pedriza, in the Cuenca Alta del Manzanares regional park, provide the backdrop to a wonderful wild swimming spot. These mountains are the backdrop for Ernest Hemingway’s For Whom the Bell Tolls, set during the Spanish C
  
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• Hunter Mountain Begins "Major" Lift Investment Project

  17-06-2024 20:50 via powder.com
  
  The snow’s gone, and chairlift upgrade season is here. Construction is underway for Hunter Mountain, New York’s lift infrastructure improvements, which include replacing Broadway and the E Lift.Previously a fixed-grip quad lift, Broadway will become a six-person, high-speed lift this summer, increasing uphill capacity by 55%. A lift tower gets some air time at Hunter Mountain.Courtesy: Hunter MountainHunter Mountain is realigning the lift’s path so it passes over Gun
  
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• Epic Early Season Snowfall Transforms Valle Nevado

  17-06-2024 19:56 via powder.com
  
  Considered by some metrics to be the largest ski resort in South America, Valle Nevado (Snowy Valley), Chile has started their Winter '24 season off with a bang.The resort is reporting that an astounding 64 inches (163cm) of snow has fallen in the last seven days. This brings their seasonal total to 135 inches (344cm) -- more than half of their annual average of 240 inches (609cm). Photos below.Valle Nevado Blizzard June, 2024Courtesy Valle NevadoCourtesy Valle NevadoCourtesy Valle NevadoThe ici
  
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• June Blizzard Blankets Northwest Peaks

  17-06-2024 17:49 via powder.com
  
  While many Americans are cementing their plans for the upcoming Fourth of July holiday, mountain peaks across the northwest are sporting a fresh coat of white.Timberline Lodge, located on Mt. Hood, Oregon, reported a whopping seven inches of fresh snow had fallen by Sunday, June 16th, 2024. Check out photos captured on the resort's webcams below.Timberline Lodge webcams capture fresh snowfall on June 16th, 2024.Courtesy Timberline LodgeTimberline Lodge is the only ski resort still open for lift-
  
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• Shop Talk: The Skills I Learned To Love on The Pika Glacier

  17-06-2024 16:00 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.Recently, I dove into some of the key gear for a spring ski mountaineering trip to Alaska’s Pika Glacier, a bucket list trip if I've ever heard of one! While having the right gear is critical for a successful trip, you also have to know how to use t, along with some other mountain and communication skills in your back pocket.Most people don’t live in a place
  
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• Fashion Mogul #1: Undeniable Infatuation with the Orange Ski Boot

  16-06-2024 18:48 via powder.com
  
  The first installment of any proper column starts with the basics. Laying down the foundation, so to speak. One of the foundations of fashion is color theory.It seems as though the bright orange Tecnica ski boots were all but inescapable at resorts across the country this past season. Specifically, the Men's Cochise 130 All Mountain/Freeride boots, priced at $799.95. See below. The Tecnica Cochise 130. Photo: Blizzard-Tecnica.For a little under a thousand dollars, we already know that
  
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• In a Digital Age, High-End Outdoors Magazines Are Thriving in Print

  16-06-2024 11:02 via nytimes.com
  
  Titles like Adventure Journal, Mountain Gazette, Summit Journal and Ori are aimed at “people who just don’t want to be on their phones anymore.”
  
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• Keep Your Clips Up #8: Best Ski Videos of the Week

  15-06-2024 13:48 via powder.com
  
  "Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it." While he was onto something in the '80s, I don't know if Ferris Bueller's advice applies to 2024. Thanks to the non-stop deluge that is social media, life's now moving at warp speed—blink, and you're out of luck. That's where Keep Your Clips Up—a weekly collection of the best videos in skiing—comes in.Earlier this week, my partner texted me that she'd gotten a winter storm warning on
  
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• Ski Portillo Blanketed by 45 Inches of Snow Overnight

  14-06-2024 22:18 via powder.com
  
  Winter has arrived in Chilé, where the ski season exists oppositely to our North American one. Ski Portillo, a ski resort in the Andes mountains of Chile, just announced that things are kicking off in spectacular fashion with a dumping of nearly four feet of snow in the last 36 hours.Another look at the snowfall.Photo courtesy of Ski PortilloOne more angle of the snowfall. Photo courtesy of Ski PortilloAccording to a press report from officials at Ski Portillo, the resort has re
  
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• Freeride Skiing Could Become an Olympic Sport- Is That a Good Thing?

  14-06-2024 22:07 via powder.com
  
  Well, folks, it's happening. Since the International Ski and Snowboard Federation's (FIS) acquisition of the Freeride World Tour (FWT), another concrete step has been made towards a potential Olympic freeride event. Earlier this summer, FIS congress members voted to make freeride skiing and snowboarding an officially recognized discipline.The Olympic Rings hang in Paris ahead of the upcoming 2024 Summer Olympic GamesPhoto: Julien Mattia/Xinhua via Getty ImagesThe land
  
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• Breckenridge Employees Remove 800 Pounds of Trash From Slopes

  14-06-2024 16:55 via powder.com
  
  As the snow melts on the slopes of Breckenridge, Colorado, a winter's worth of trash and treasures emerge like seashells washing up on the beach.In an effort to protect wildlife and the local ecosystem, Breckenridge employees spent time on June 11th, 2024 cleaning up items left behind on Peaks 7, 8, and 9. Check out the video below, keep reading for more on the story.Breckenridge's cleanup day isn't unordinary for a ski resort of its size and stature. Thousands upon thousands of skiers visit the
  
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• No More Lifties? Autonomous Chairlifts are Coming

  14-06-2024 16:27 via powder.com
  
  The impending threat of AI coming for our jobs is always looming. But now, for those working as lifties at ski resorts, the threat of AURO coming for their jobs has arrived.AURO, or Autonomous Ropeway Operation, was developed by international lift manufacturer Doppelmayr. Currently, the group has produced over 15,400 installations in 96 countries (including for use outside of skiing). Their latest debut in transportation systems can be viewed below. The caption beneath the video explains th
  
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• People of Powder: Ella Boyd

  14-06-2024 16:20 via powder.com
  
  The following interview is part of our 'People of POWDER' series in which we take a deeper look into the people behind The Skiers' Magazine.Read along as Ian Greenwood interviews fellow POWDER writer Ella Boyd to learn more about her childhood spent skiing and surfing in Maine, her surf photography endeavors, and her return to skiing.Where did you grow up skiing initially?"I grew up in Maine, and my home mountain was Sugarloaf. We didn't live at Sugarloaf year round, but we did have a place ther
  
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• Snow or No Snow, Australia’s Winter Resorts Are Open

  14-06-2024 07:58 via nytimes.com
  
  Business owners say it’s hard to keep pace with the country’s sporadic snow conditions and spontaneous skiers.
  
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• X Games Draws Inspiration From F1 With Announcement of New League

  13-06-2024 18:28 via powder.com
  
  A big change is coming to the freestyle skiing competition world: X Games has announced plans to implement a new, team-based format in 2026. Dubbed the "X Games League" (XGL), the competition series will involve a season-round calendar for both summer and winter action sports. Check out the press release below.X Games League Announcement"In essence, we've used Formula One as a model for this new X Games League," said Jeff Moorad, Executive Chairman of X Games and Principal of MSP Sports Cap
  
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• Bucket List Trips: Pika Glacier Gear Guide

  13-06-2024 16:00 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.About a year ago, some friends and I started hatching plans for a spring Alaska trip. We wanted good skiing options, stunning views, and a place that was new to all of us. The idea was that it would be a fun way to spend time together and an adventure that would put some of our mountaineering skills and steep skiing abilities to the test. We settled on the Pika Glacier a
  
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• Mount Rainier National Park Recovers Body of Lost Skier

  12-06-2024 20:35 via powder.com
  
  Mount Rainier is an active volcano about two hours from Seattle, Washington. According to the National Park Service, Mount Rainier is the most glaciated peak in the contiguous U.S.A., spawning five major rivers.Tragically, it is also the site where a female skier had been missing for a month. Her body was found on Saturday, June 8th, at the base of Pebble Creek's Moraine Falls in Mount Rainier National Park. Mt. Rainier.Rebecca L. Latson/Getty ImagesThe unidentified body
  
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• Team Sweden Emerges Victorious at CopenHill's Scandinavian Team Battle

  12-06-2024 20:32 via powder.com
  
  The Scandinavian Team Battle has come and gone, with Swedish freestyle maestros Emil Granbom and Jesper Tjäder taking the win for the fourth year in a row at CopenHill-- Copenhagen, Denmark's year-round ski slope.Take a look at our select gallery from the competition below. All photos provided by The Scandinavian Team Battle.Scandinavian Team Battle 2024The world's best park skiers gathered at CopenHill, Denmark for one of the premier competitions of the summer.Photo: Carl Ulslev
  
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• Jackson Hole To Open for Summer Operations Despite Highway Collapse

  11-06-2024 19:57 via powder.com
  
  Over the weekend, a section of Highway 22—which connects Jackson, Wyoming, to Idaho via Teton Pass—collapsed, but Jackson Hole Mountain Resort will still open for summer operations on Saturday, June 15th.The road failure gave JHMR pause regarding its planned summer operations kick-off. Over the past three days, the resort assessed how the road closure "will impact employees, their families, and guests," according to a recent press release. JHMR eventually "determined that the inciden
  
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• Candlestick Ice: Summer's Bizarre Natural Phenomenon

  11-06-2024 19:52 via powder.com
  
  Like the majority of Americans, skiers look to summer as a time for rest and relaxation. The powder panic has subsided, temperatures are pleasant, and we remember that joy can be found in activities other than sliding on snow.Professional skier Owen Leeper is slightly less willing to give up on skiing than most, and regularly ventures into high-altitude terrain throughout the summer in search of snow, water, and sunshine.Take a quick scroll through Leeper's social media pages and you'll lea
  
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• From Skiing the Streets to the Vineyard

  11-06-2024 17:42 via powder.com
  
  Words by Ian Greenwood / Photos by Espen Thomassen and Brady PerronForster Meeks stood atop a tank of glistening grapes and pungent, fermenting wine. He was 18—fresh out of high school—and working his first fall wine harvest at Penner-Ash, an Oregon-based winery co-founded by the trailblazing Lynn Penner-Ash. The summer prior, he lived the start of a years-spanning ski bum fantasy, working nights at Timberline Lodge, Oregon, and skiing the Palmer Snowfield during sun-baked after
  
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• Old Books, Good Tips Part IV - Fitness, Fitness, Fitness

  11-06-2024 16:00 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.The telemark turn is not just a single movement. At its height it is the constant, improvisational execution of dynamism on snow; each lunge, each lead change an act of exhilarating energy. And it’s exhausting. Without some degree of aerobic fitness and whole-body strength, the telemark skier is relegated to fits and starts punctuated by doubled-over hyperventilati
  
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• Marc Rochat & Bode Miller Debut New Documentary at Tribeca Film Festival

  10-06-2024 23:45 via powder.com
  
  La Roche, translating in English to "the rock", is a film following the challenges of Slalom ski racer Marc Rochat during his journey to make the Swiss national ski team and his position within it. The film officially premiered in the U.S. at the 2024 Tribeca Film Festival.Produced by former World Cup alpine ski racer Bode Miller, the documentary features a behind-the-scenes glimpse into Rochat's struggles with injuries, mental determination, and love for skiing in and out of competiti
  
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• Teton Pass is Closed- How Does it Affect the 'Wydaho' Community?

  10-06-2024 23:18 via powder.com
  
  Early in the morning of June 8th, a section of Wyoming Highway 22 on Teton Pass catastrophically failed in a large landslide, forcing a complete closure of the highway connecting Jackson Hole and the communities of Victor and Driggs, Idaho. Wyoming Highway 22 (Teton Pass)Courtesy Wyoming Department of TransportationTwo days earlier, a crack started to develop in the road at milepost 12.8, causing a motorcyclist to crash and closing the highway for a short time for a temporary repair. The road th
  
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• Arapahoe Basin's 'Lake Reveal' Emerges for Final Weekends of Season

  10-06-2024 19:53 via powder.com
  
  Arapahoe Basin Ski Area, Colorado is one of only two ski areas still open in the United States, but it feels like the party is just getting started.One of Arapahoe Basin's most charming spring/summer features, known as Lake Reveal, has recently emerged to add to the fun. Check out the images below of skiers taking their first skims across Lake Reveal on Friday, June 7th, 2024. Lake Reveal, Arapahoe Basin, CO (6/7/24)Photo: Lucas Herbert, Arapahoe Basin Ski AreaPhoto&colon
  
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• The Giant and His Bottle

  10-06-2024 19:00 via nyskiblog.com
  
  With the ski season over, I figured it was time to get back my other passion, slide climbing. The large slabs of anorthosite are a fun and adventurous way to reach the summit of an Adirondack peak. Of course, combined with a good amount of snowfall, they become a thrilling descent on backcountry skis. Almost every High Peak in the Park has at least one slide, while a few have more than a handful. Giant Mountain is one of these » Read More »
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• Shop Talk: What’s Up With Aftermarket Footbeds?

  10-06-2024 16:00 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.Our feet are funny things, and undoubtedly one of skiing’s toughest battles. All season long, we force them into hard plastic boots that, at best, vaguely shaped like a human foot. Let me in on a little secret, I’ve tested dozens of skis boots over the last few years, and not a single one has truly felt good out of the box without some sort of modification. T
  
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• Jay Peak, Vermont, To Reopen for One Day of Skiing and Riding on June 22nd

  10-06-2024 13:00 via powder.com
  
  On, Saturday, June 22nd, winter will make a fleeting reappearance at Jay Peak Resort, Vermont, during the ski area's inaugural Solstice Sessions event.There's always plenty of summer fun at Jay Peak, VTCourtesy: Jay Peak ResortHeld in the Stateside Amphitheater, the concert series stars Dopapod, Lazy Bird, The High Breaks, and DJ Local Dork, alongside a summer terrain park with boxes and rails serviced by the Stateside Moving Carpet. To build the park, Jay Peak followed the example of
  
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• Molly Armanino on the Challenges of the Freeride World Tour

  09-06-2024 14:00 via powder.com
  
  Tahoe local Molly Armanino competed in the Freeride World Tour 2023-24 season as a wildcard entry, but in her first season on the tour ('22/'23), she earned the title of Vice World Champion. She also competed in Kings & Queens of Corbet's at Jackson Hole, receiving 3rd place. She is not only a fierce competitor, but a vulnerable and raw personality in the ski industry, facing grief in stride and reassuring others they can overcome challenges life throws their way. Her latest c
  
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• Keep Your Clips Up #7: Best Ski Videos of the Week

  08-06-2024 13:00 via powder.com
  
  "Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it." While he was onto something in the '80s, I don't know if Ferris Bueller's advice applies to 2024. Thanks to the non-stop deluge that is social media, life's now moving at warp speed—blink, and you're out of luck. That's where Keep Your Clips Up—a weekly collection of the best videos in skiing—comes in.Big mountain fans, I was getting ready to show you the door. With the ski season in
  
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