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• Mountain Capital Partners To Purchase La Parva, Chile

  10-05-2024 20:07 via powder.com
  
  Mountain Capital Partners (MCP)—owners of several ski resorts primarily in the southwestern U.S.—has entered an agreement to purchase Chile's La Parva Ski Resort, located in the famed Tres Valles region.La Parva boasts 14 lifts, 40 named trails, and over 3,000 feet of vertical. It is less than an hour's drive from Santiago, the largest city in Chile.La Parva's slopes border Valle Nevado, a neighboring ski resort.La Parva Ski ResortLast year, MCP became a majority owner in Valle Nevad
  
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• Winter Park, CO Announces Closing Day for Winter '24 Season

  22-05-2024 22:31 via powder.com
  
  Officials at Winter Park, CO, posted a chairlift POV with their long-awaited closing day announcement. Although they have remained open long after many North American resorts, officials wrote, "after some beautifully sunny late season days, it’s time to announce that our last day of skiing and riding is Monday, May 27!" See below. View this post on InstagramA post shared by Winter Park Resort (@winterparkresort)
  The post further included information reminding everyone that this w
  
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• In Copenhagen, Skiers Are Getting Ready to Flip and Spin Down Artificial Snow

  22-05-2024 20:32 via powder.com
  
  Towering above Copenhagen, Denmark, stands the Amager Bakke, a state-of-the-art waste incinerator notable for its enormous smokestacks. The plant burns around 560,000 tons of trash annually, using the energy byproducts to produce power. But the Amager Bakke isn't an industrial eyesore pockmarking Copenhagen's cityscape, far from it. The facility features a climbing wall, cafe, and, yes, an artificial ski slope known as CopenHill. The latter will host a freeskiing competition—the Scandinavi
  
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• The First Family of Jackson Hole's S&S Couloir

  22-05-2024 18:19 via powder.com
  
  Bob Kilmain moved to Jackson Hole from Massachusetts during the Winter of ‘98/’99. Like many east coasters, he was seduced by the bigger lines and deeper snowfall of the Tetons.Bob is not a household name like some of his Jackson Hole Air Force friends, but ask any of the locals and they’ll most likely respond- “He’s the only person to front flip into S&S Couloir.”Corbet’s Couloir is arguably the most famous in-bounds ski trail in the United States,
  
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• Australia/New Zealand Ski Resorts 2024 Opening Dates

  22-05-2024 17:50 via powder.com
  
  As the North American ski season winds down, the Southern Hemisphere's ski season is just gearing up. Hence, we have compiled a list of the opening dates for some of the biggest ski resorts in Australia and New Zealand, for those looking for their endless winters. One of those Australian resorts is Perisher, and officials at the resort recently posted a video of their snowmaking efforts. See below. View this post on InstagramA post shared by Perisher (@perisher_resort)
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• Colorado County Torn Apart By Baseball-Size Hail

  22-05-2024 16:42 via powder.com
  
  Yuma County, Colorado is licking their wounds after a destructive hailstorm wreaked havoc on the night of Monday, May 20, 2024.The hail was "baseball size", and was large enough to shatter car windows, destroy the siding of homes and businesses, and even pile up "knee high" in some locations. The photo below was shared to X by Kody Wilson, a meteorologist.Surreal images coming out of Yuma County, Colorado last night. Incredible amounts of hail. This after hail the size of baseballs with the stro
  
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• Chris Benchetler Opens Up About New Collaboration With the Grateful Dead: 'Mountains of the Moon'

  21-05-2024 23:19 via powder.com
  
  Visionary artist and professional skier Chris Benchetler, the man behind the ubiquitous Atomic Bent Chetler skis, just announced his latest creative project, Mountains of the Moon. Recently, at Dead & Co’s opening night at the Sphere Las Vegas, a selection of Mountains of the Moon’s vibrant visuals were on full display for the audience, but it sounds as though this is just the beginning. Mountains of the Moon.Photo: Chris Pondorella/Moun
  
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• “Too Much Snow” Delays Opening of Italian Summer Ski Area

  21-05-2024 20:48 via powder.com
  
  Due to recent heavy snowfall, Pirovano Stelvio, an Italian summer ski area and hotel, has delayed its opening.Initially, Pirovano Stelvio planned to open the ski area on June 1st, one day after the May 31st opening of the Pirovano Quarto, an accompanying slopeside hotel. The hotel will now open later-than-planned on June 7th, although the opening date of the ski are remains a bit foggy. An updated release indicates that the ski area will open on the 7th alongside the Quarto, although anothe
  
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• 'Crack Yeetin' With Scott Gaffney- Palisades Tahoe Spring '24 Q&A

  21-05-2024 20:07 via powder.com
  
  Palisades Tahoe, California is closing after Monday, May 27th, 2024, but filmmaking legend Scott Gaffney proves there's still "plenty" of exciting spring lines to be skied.Gaffney posted the short edit embedded below on May 18th, 2024. Check out 'Crack Yeetin Grass Blazin and Pinner Needle Speedballin' by pressing play. Keep scrolling for my Q&A with Gaffney about the video, and more.Winter '23-'24 was my first season at Palisades Tahoe, and after watching Gaffney's video, I felt a
  
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• Solitude Celebrates Second Longest Season in History With Employee Cardboard Derby

  21-05-2024 18:04 via powder.com
  
  Solitude Mountain Resort in Utah celebrated the end of their second longest season ever this past Sunday, May 19th, 2024. They ended with a season total of 574 inches of snowfall, and a cardboard derby for their employees. See below. Solitude employees celebrating the end of our second longest season ever with a cardboard derby. 🐎 pic.twitter.com/n5pjj93jm2— Solitude Mountain Resort (@SolitudeMTN) May 16, 2024
  Solitude was open for 181 days of skiing and riding during the Wint
  
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• Arapahoe Basin, Colorado Announces Targeted Closing Date In June

  21-05-2024 17:17 via powder.com
  
  It wasn't an all-time year for snowfall for Arapahoe Basin Ski Area, Colorado, but enough fell to keep skiers and snowboarders sliding into June, as is tradition.A-Basin COO Al Henceroth has just announced via the popular 'Al's Blog' that the ski area will remain open until "at least" Sunday, June 9th, 2024. Full details in the embedded Facebook post below.The post also confirms that lifts will spin daily through Sunday, June 2nd, close Monday-Thursday, and then reopen Friday, May 7th through Su
  
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• Where To Ski Memorial Day Weekend 2024

  21-05-2024 13:00 via powder.com
  
  The sun is shining. The smell of brats wafts from the parking lot. Your entrepreneurial friend has a trunk full of your favorite beverage—alcoholic or not; I’m a big fan of Spindrifts, maybe you are, too—and the slopes beckon. Thank heavens for federally recognized holidays. It’s Memorial Day weekend.Maybe you’re planning a quick late-season ski trip with the extra time off or searching for a more local, lift-accessed option. Either way, here are the U.S. ski resort
  
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• Sun Valley, ID, Begins Demolition of Seattle Ridge Lift

  20-05-2024 23:22 via powder.com
  
  The demolition of Sun Valley’s Seattle Ridge chairlift is well underway. Last week, the Idaho resort shared footage of construction machinery tearing apart the lift’s upper terminal, making way for a new, six-person detachable replacement set for installation this summer. Constructed in 1996, Seattle Ridge’s previous iteration was a four-person detachable lift.View this post on InstagramA post shared by Sun Valley (@sunvalley)
  “Both the top & bottom terminals, along w
  
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• Death Reported at Eldora Mountain Resort, Colorado

  20-05-2024 20:40 via powder.com
  
  On May 16th, the Boulder County Sheriff’s Office responded to a medical emergency report from Eldora Mountain Resort. According to the Sheriff's Office report of the incident, the 9-1-1 call reported that there was CPR in progress on a male patient.Eldora Mountain Resort at sunset. Shutterstock/Brian WolskiThe report later revealed that the patient was a 52-year-old male staff member at the ski resort, who was assisting with trail maintenance when a tree fell on top of hi
  
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• Huff Hills Ski Area Considering New Location

  20-05-2024 20:00 via powder.com
  
  Huff Hills is an unimposing, yet charming ski area located south of Bismarck, North Dakota. As one of only four downhill ski areas in the entire state, and the largest at that, skiers travel from far and wide to satisfy their alpine skiing itch.The ski area was started in 1993 by Jim Beck, a local businessman who longed for a ski area closer to home. Andy Beck, Jim's son, is Huff Hills' current Mountain Operations Manager and has been "slowly" transitioning to General Manager since 2004.Ever ski
  
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• Review: Patagonia Descensionist 40 L

  20-05-2024 17:00 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.In a NutshellPatagonia’s existing second-generation Descensionist packs kind of set the gold standard for everyday backcountry skiing packs that were equally at home on all-day powder tours and in technical ski mountaineering settings. The existing 32L version has been my personal go-to for several seasons and is still going strong. The newly updated 40L version st
  
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• A-Basin's Festival of the Brew Pubs Returns Memorial Day Weekend

  19-05-2024 14:00 via powder.com
  
  Arapahoe Basin, CO, asks guests to join them for their Festival of the Brewpubs to sample "some of the best beers Summit County has to offer."The event—scheduled for May 26th—welcomes summer, bidding the winter season goodbye, and will have "super scenic beer sampling" with plenty of breweries to choose from in the base area (A-Basin will keep spinning its lifts til June).The purchase of a $40 ticket gets guests a festival mug and unlimited tastings.A tasting tent. Ian Zinner&am
  
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• Keep Your Clips Up #4: Best Ski Videos of the Week

  18-05-2024 14:00 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.Clips, clips, clips. This week's offerings should satiate every kind of appet
  
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• Drew Petersen Still Wants You To Care About Mental Health

  17-05-2024 21:41 via powder.com
  
  Trigger warning: suicide, PTSD.In 2022, outdoor athlete and advocate Drew Petersen released the film Ups & Downs, which chronicled his multifaceted battle with a traumatic brain injury, bipolar disorder, suicidal ideation, and PTSD. I caught a release of the film during Salomon's Quality Ski Time Tour and, simply put, was floored. It was raw, intense, and—coming from someone who's also dealt with mental health struggles—validating. To see a professional skier like Petersen openly
  
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• Film Director Opens Up About the Difficulties of Outdoor Filmmaking

  17-05-2024 19:44 via powder.com
  
  Bjarne Salén is of the world’s best high-alpine cinematographers, but he has had his share of hardships. Moving countries, lost friends, chaotic living situations—still, above all, he has found success. He is the creator of many notable films including Finding the Line, Dreamline, Find Away for Patagonia, and of course, The Fifty Project. Despite his myriad of accomplishments, Salén wrote, "being on a trip trying to ski one single objective is not al
  
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• Film Director Opens Up About Difficulties of Outdoor Filmmaking

  17-05-2024 19:44 via powder.com
  
  Bjarne Salén is of the world’s best high-alpine cinematographers, but he has had his share of hardships. Moving countries, lost friends, chaotic living situations—still, above all, he has found success. He is the creator of many notable films including Finding the Line, Dreamline, Find Away for Patagonia, and of course, The Fifty Project. Despite his myriad of accomplishments, Salén wrote, "being on a trip trying to ski one single objective is not al
  
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• Minnesota Ski Resort To Host Spring Skiing Session With Leftover Snow

  17-05-2024 17:08 via powder.com
  
  Wild Mountain, Minnesota, just announced that "Leftovers Spring Jam is back, baybee!" The ski area will be constructing a "small and sporty" terrain park from the remaining snow on Main Stage for skiers who aren't quite ready to give winter up just yet. See below.View this post on InstagramA post shared by Wild Mountain (@skiwildmtn)
  The event is happening this Saturday, May 18th, from 11am - 3pm. The park will boast 6 to 8 features. It is hike-only, with no rope tow provided by the re
  
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• Arizona Snowbowl Extends Ski Season... Again

  16-05-2024 21:06 via powder.com
  
  Flagstaff, Arizona, skiers can once again delay putting their skis in their garages for the off-season. In a Facebook post earlier this morning, Arizona Snowbowl announced that they are "stoked to announce that [they]’ve extended the 23/24 winter season! After receiving 281 inches of snowfall so far this ski season, conditions are better than ever for spring skiing and we will now be open on weekends through Memorial Day." See below. Snowbowl is one of eleven ski resorts that rem
  
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• Solar Facility To Provide Utah Ski Resorts With Power Reaches Commercial Operation

  16-05-2024 20:55 via powder.com
  
  Yesterday, D. E. Shaw Renewable Investments (DESRI) announced that Elektron Solar, an 80 MWac solar facility located in Tooele County, UT, had reached commercial operation.The facility will provide power to Vail Resorts on behalf of Park City Mountain and Deer Valley Resort, alongside non-ski-resort customers that include Salt Lake City, Park City, Summit County, and Utah Valley University.View this post on InstagramA post shared by Park City Mountain (@pcski)
  “The completion of the Elektr
  
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• Solar Facility To Provide Power for Utah Ski Resorts Reaches Commercial Operation

  16-05-2024 20:55 via powder.com
  
  Yesterday, D. E. Shaw Renewable Investments (DESRI) announced that Elektron Solar, an 80 MWac solar facility located in Tooele County, UT, had reached commercial operation.The facility will provide power to Vail Resorts on behalf of Park City Mountain and Deer Valley Resort, alongside non-ski-resort customers that include Salt Lake City, Park City, Summit County, and Utah Valley University.View this post on InstagramA post shared by Park City Mountain (@pcski)
  “The completion of the Elektr
  
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• Review: Mountain Hardwear Powder Maven Parka and Bibs

  16-05-2024 17:00 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.In a nutshellMountain Hardwear’s Powder Maven Parka and Bib combine to create a heavy-duty, highly insulated kit designed to keep you warm for bell-to-bell resort laps on the coldest of winter days. SpecsPowder Maven ParkaSize tested: Small Materials:Fabric: Dry.Q® 150D 2-Layer: 100% PolyesterFabric Lining: 20D Nylon Taffeta. 100% NylonFabric Body: Dry.Q® 1
  
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• Snow Science Storytellers: How Avalanche Forecasters Communicate Risk

  16-05-2024 14:00 via powder.com
  
  On crisp winter mornings, the Utah Avalanche Center employee responsible for publishing daily public avalanche forecasts in the Salt Lake City, Utah, area arrives at an office near the international airport. There, they drink from the proverbial fire hose, translating raw data into digestible backcountry safety messaging. The task is weighty—failures to communicate where and when avalanches might occur could endanger hundreds, if not thousands, of backcountry skiers.The UAC's director, Mar
  
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• Australian Ski Resort Fires Up Snowguns As Winter Approaches

  15-05-2024 23:21 via powder.com
  
  Perisher, located in Kosciuszko National Park, NSW, Australia, is the Southern Hemisphere's largest alpine resort. The resort's snowmaking crew has officially clocked on for the season and have been warming up the guns this week. Officials at the resort celebrate with a post and caption that reads, "Winter 2024 let’s go!!" View this post on InstagramA post shared by Perisher (@perisher_resort)
  Perisher currently has 47 lifts, with 4 different resort areas, so snowmaking at t
  
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• John Collinson Shares How He Navigated Multiple Season-Ending Injuries

  15-05-2024 23:08 via powder.com
  
  Professional skier John Collinson has had his share of knee injuries--three, in fact. While Collinson wrote that "injuries are tough both mentally and physically," he learned a lot going through the recovery process multiple times. For these experiences, Collinson compiled a list of the things he did to stay well mentally. View this post on InstagramA post shared by John Collinson (@johncollinson)
  Collinson advises giving the injury respect. "This one will probably look different for a
  
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• The Kitchen Dwellers Talk Their Love for Skiing After Jamming at 6,000 Feet

  15-05-2024 20:30 via powder.com
  
  The tram, which we filed into slowly, was big enough to fit twenty or so people comfortably. The Montana quartet, the Kitchen Dwellers, were at one end of the tram, with a collection of musical instruments. The band, made up of four men playing acoustic guitar, mandolin, banjo, and stand-up bass, had played unique and renowned venues such as Red Rocks. Somehow, though, I bet playing in a tram crawling up the side of Palisades Tahoe was the coolest venue they had played so far.Tram jam. Phot
  
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