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• Petersburg Pass: Skiing the Far East

  12-02-2021 19:15 via nyskiblog.com
  
  For some reason, I’ve started responding to those facebook offers to re-share photos from the same date in previous years. Recently I shared a shot of a brand new and unmounted pair of telemark bindings — Rottefella RT8s — from five years ago. I’m not really sure why I shared it, other than I liked the picture. Brian, a fb friend I’d never met, commented that he could really use parts from that binding.  I knew I’d probably never use » Read More &ra
  
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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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• Winter Is Gaining Steam, Snow Forecasted To Fall Across Colorado, Utah, & California Next Week

  12-10-2026 20:55 via powder.com
  The remnants of Hurricanes Rachel and Simon are combining with a cold front, and more mountain snow is on the horizon.
  On Monday, October 12, 2026, meteorologist Chris Tomer broke down which mountains saw snow over the weekend and how the next storm system could continue to impact different areas in the coming week.
  This past weekend, parts of Montana, including Showdown Mountain and Big Sky, picked up a fair bit of snow at their highest elevations. Showdown in particular got nearly 20″, w
  
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• Hilarious and Grueling Wife-Carrying Tradition Returns to Maine Ski Resort

  12-10-2026 20:48 via powder.com
  As snow graced the highest peaks out West over the weekend, Sunday River, Maine, was hosting a different sort of pre-season tradition.
  Husbands, carrying their wives, raced through a grueling obstacle course in hopes of securing the grand prize: the wife’s weight in beer and five times her weight in cash. This was Sunday River’s 27th Annual North American Wife Carrying Championship.
  (In case you were wondering, the rules do account for the fact that it’s the 21st century: Compe
  
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• New Trail Map Released for Private Backcountry Ski Resort in Utah

  12-10-2026 19:44 via powder.com
  A couple of Utah residents are building their own 400-acre backcountry ski area near Springville.Richard Oldham and his brother, Sam, purchased a cabin property and the adjacent 400 acres roughly six years ago. In 2025, they dubbed the property Moose Springs Ranch and started cutting their own ski runs, building bike trails, and adding features for both. Moose Springs Ranch is private, fully off-grid, and unfinished, according to their website.
  Over the last few years, Oldham has built a road to
  
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• Widespread Snow Blankets Ski Resorts From California to Montana

  12-10-2026 19:40 via powder.com
  Widespread, chilly weather and precipitation brought snowfall to ski resorts across the West this weekend, depositing in some cases more than a foot as anticipation for the 2026-27 season builds.
  The big winners this time were in western Montana. Among them was Showdown, which tallied between 12 and 19 inches. In a social media post, the resort reminded stoked skiers that the season hasn’t officially started yet and that “If you choose to ski, it is at your own risk!”
  
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• The Best Women's Skis of 2027

  12-10-2026 19:03 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.When it comes to women’s specific outdoor gear, it’s a mad, mad world out there. Although women’s gear has come a long way from the hallmark days of “shrink it and pink it,” there are still far less market options for women and even less that aren’t slightly dumbed/shrunk down versions of a men’s ski.
  In order to find the very b
  
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• A Love Letter to Skiing and the World's Most Famous Jam Band: Mountains of the Moon Review

  12-10-2026 16:56 via powder.com
  I’ll be honest: the idea of a “4D” movie theater doesn’t interest me.To me, movie-watching is about sitting down in a big, fat chair, getting comfortable, and letting the actors, cinematographers, and directors do the work. I don’t want to get sprayed with a firehose or smell something I don’t expect, which, yes, one 4D theater advertises as “scent.” Heck, even those 3D glasses make me feel sick.
  Yet, not so long ago, I found myself perched in a se
  
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• Review: 2027 Stöckli Stormrider 95 Skis

  12-10-2026 16:19 via powder.com
  Why would you buy a pair of skis for groomers that don’t actually ski well on groomers? It’s a question I ask myself when I see good skiers on crappy, narrow skis just for the sake of being on a narrow ski. Yes, your 88mm underfoot ski will be easier to turn on the hardpack groomers than your 120mm big dogs, but if the ski can’t hold an edge, what’s the point?
  Enter the Stormrider 95, a burly, stiff, and fairly heavy “freeride” offering from Swiss ski racing s
  
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• Nordica Made the Perfect Ski for Ex-Racers, All Mountain Experts, and Speed Demons

  12-10-2026 15:32 via powder.com
  Terms like “jibby” and “surfy” are all the rage in the all-mountain category these days, with skis that, at least according to the marketing lingo, can do everything well. 
  But some skiers don’t want a ski that’s soft or approachable. Some skiers want a beefier option that challenges them a bit. This crowd should consider the Nordica Enforcer 99.
  It’s not playful, and I’d call it a particularly burly ski, but if your legs can handle the Enforc
  
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• Review: 2027 Elan Ripstick 96 Black Edition

  12-10-2026 14:30 via powder.com
  There’s skis that literally everyone talks about, and then there’s skis that quietly fly under the radar but offer wildly good performance for the discerning skier. Elan’s Ripstick line definitely falls into the latter category, and the Slovenian ski manufacturer even offers a higher-performance version of the line under the Black Edition moniker. Think of it like the RS-series version of a 4-door Audi family sedan—same body, same sleeper styling, but a much more powerful
  
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• Review: 2027 Blizzard Sheeva 9

  11-10-2026 23:52 via powder.com
  When it comes to women’s specific skis, Blizzard’s Black Pearl often stands out in demo fleets and best-of roundups as the brand’s approachable, yet sturdy, pick. However, the Black Pearl series has a more rebellious, aggressive, older sister in the Sheeva, and while most skiers wish they needed a wide, powder ski like the Sheeva 11 every day, that’s just not the reality. That’s where the Sheeva 9 comes in.The women’s-specific counterpart to the Rustler 9, the
  
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• Review: 2027 Atomic Maven 103 CTi

  11-10-2026 14:57 via powder.com
  The term “freeride” ski has grown to have a variety of meanings over the last five years, but it seems to rarely describe simply a ski that can take you anywhere on the mountain you want to go with confidence. With that in mind, it’s refreshing that the widest ski in Atomic’s women’s specific freeride ski lineup is just that. The Atomic Maven 103 CTi goes from carving turns, to smashing bumps, to swooshing around in slushy snow about as seamlessly as you could ever
  
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• Dynastar's 100mm Freeride Ski Is Capable of Handling Almost Any Snow Condition

  10-10-2026 14:55 via powder.com
  In the early years of the Freeride World Tour, the Dynastar Legend Pro Rider found its way onto the podium more times than just about any ski of the era. That ski eventually evolved into the Dynastar M-Pro Series, a ski lineup that both Powder testers and the ski community at large have continued to have fondness for. 
  But in 2020, Dynastar partnered with freeride legend Richard Permin to create what is now referred to as the M-Free Series. It’s a ski lineup that infuses Dynastar&rsqu
  
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• Review: 2027 Elan Ripstick 94 W Black Edition Skis

  10-10-2026 14:48 via powder.com
  At first glance, the Elan Ripstick family isn’t exactly a ski that jumps off the wall at you, so to speak. After all, it’s another line of all mountain skis, with some pretty standard widths available and a subtle graphic styling. However, the understated nature of the Ripstick just might be one of the coolest things about it. Rather than pulling you in with a flashy graphic or wild tail shape, the Ripstick is quietly one of the most thoughtfully engineered skis on the market that le
  
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• Review: 2027 Blizzard Canvas 100

  10-10-2026 14:34 via powder.com
  At this point, you’ve probably heard the news that Blizzard went all-in on a new freeride ski line that really breaks with tradition when it comes to how the Austrian company designs skis. The line comprises 3 models, and the new Canvas 100 rounds out the line as the narrowest waist width, retaining the twin-tip shape of the 108 and 118. As a 100mm-waisted twin tip ski, the Canvas 100 is the most approachable in the line and will serve a wide assortment of skiers well. Like the rest of the
  
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• Eggs, Bacon, Frozen Nose Hairs and Blower Powder With High Sierra Snowcat & Yurt

  10-10-2026 13:10 via powder.com
  As I pulled out of the Margaritaville Hotel in South Lake Tahoe, California, I chuckled at the happy coincidence of Jimmy Buffett’s most popular song playing in the lobby.
  “Wastin’ away in Margaritaville, searchin’ for my lost shaker of salt…” Salt wasn’t what I was after, but I was hoping that Mother Nature had metaphorically dumped a whole load of salt (snow) on High Sierra Snowcat & Yurt, and I intended to find it, sans floral shirt and a straw h
  
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• My Favorite Hobby Comes With a Side of Climate Dread

  10-10-2026 12:02 via powder.com
  Recently, I bought a portable lantern in case the power goes out.Then, I texted one of my family members, who has a reputation for preparedness, to see if they had any ideas beyond the obvious. “Life insurance and a Bible,” they shot back, reminding me that alongside their planning streak, they will, in almost any context, mine for a wisecrack. I tried to keep up, wondering whether you were supposed to eat the life insurance or the Bible.
  The idea struck me after California recently
  
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• Which of Western Canada's Ski Areas Will Open First?

  09-10-2026 19:53 via powder.com
  Can ya feel it? Winter, or something resembling it, is in the air, at least on the highest peaks. Ski resorts across the West have begun to clock their first snowfalls of the season. The leaves are changing. Evenings have a crispness to them. 
  While ski season, for many of us, is still more than a month away, Western Canada’s ski areas are prepping for the winter to come. And depending on how cooperative the weather proves to be, some may open sooner than you’d think. The regula
  
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• Mt. Hutt To Invest $12 Million On New Base Building

  09-10-2026 19:46 via powder.com
  New Zealand’s Mt. Hutt Ski Area is prepping to make some big upgrades. Following the resort’s closing day, demolition of the old ski school building, which has stood since roughly 1980, will begin to make way for a new structure.
  In place of the old building, Mt. Hutt is building a new base area structure, complete with a heated outdoor sundeck that will nearly triple the size of the old deck, from 430 sqm to 1300 sqm.In addition, the project will include the construction of a new gr
  
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• Spencer Harkins Leads Mammut's Unwellness Retreat, New Video Series Dropping Soon

  09-10-2026 18:37 via powder.com
  The concept of wellness has the world in a chokehold. Between the ability to track every body metric and a wealth of devices marketed to cure any ailment, it’s hard not to get swept up in a routine of comfort, recovery, and health. Yet, all of these things don’t leave much room to question what wellness actually is.
  Swiss mountain brand Mammut, known for challenging the status quo in mountain culture (anyone remember their Mountain Rescue Squad campaign?), wasn’t satisfied with
  
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• Lively and Quick, Atomic's Maverick 105 CTI Packs Performance Into a Lightweight Package

  09-10-2026 15:42 via powder.com
  All-mountain skis come in all shapes and sizes, and that’s what makes this category so interesting. It’s where brands can experiment and come up with some clever ways to make everyday skiing as fun as possible. For the past few seasons, Atomic’s entire line of Maverick and Maven skis has espoused versatility, and the Maverick 105 CTi is their mid-fat take on the matter, adding a wider all-mountain waist width to the fleet that’s light, forgiving, and precise for ripping a
  
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