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• Review: 2027 Völkl Revolt 112 Skis

  04-10-2026 19:42 via powder.com
  It’s funny that Völkl has a reputation for being the brand that creates stiff, burly, overbuilt, “traditional” skis when for a really long time, they were on the cutting edge of modern ski design. Back in the mid 2010s, designs like the Kuro, Gotama, Shiro, Sumo, and more were on the forefront of really cool big mountain, deep snow freeride skis. There was even a time when the brand went all-in on reverse camber designs, but thankfully that passed. Perhaps it was the popul
  
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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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• Fourth Lake Paddle to Alger Island

  05-10-2026 14:00 via nyskiblog.com
  The air has started to turn crispy in upstate New York and the dog days of summer are now in the rear view. Farah and I weren’t quite ready to let the summer go yet and have been squeezing the last bit of juice out of the warmer days. We’ve spent a lot of time in the Finger Lakes over the last few months, neglecting our beloved Adirondacks. As a result Old Forge was square in our sites last Saturday » Read More »
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• Review: 2027 Salomon QST X

  04-10-2026 15:11 via powder.com
  Back again for another year, Salomon’s QST X is a shockingly nimble, floaty, and fun powder freeride ski that breaks the mold of what a typical “athlete” ski might make you think of. With a very surfy shape, 116mm waist, and a very damp ride, it’s an excellent choice for deep days where cliff hucks, pillows, and maching through tight trees are on the menu. Now in its third year running, the ski receives a cosmetic update (animal print bases!), but construction and perform
  
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• Need Some Winter Stoke? Here's Where To See the Best Ski Movies of 2026 Live

  04-10-2026 11:36 via powder.com
  We are awash in skiing “content.”Pick your phone up and open Instagram, and you’re bound to see a triple cork, a terrible take on skiing, a pretty good take on skiing, a winning Freeride World Tour run, POV videos, resort advertisements, first snow announcements, something about skiing that you don’t quite understand, something about skiing that makes you smile, and something about skiing you wish you hadn’t watched—all in the span of about three minutes. 
  
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• Don't Call It the White Ribbon of Death, It's The Slope of Hope

  04-10-2026 11:25 via powder.com
  It’s always just after Labor Day when I, a self-proclaimed summer girl (I can’t help it, I was born in June), start to think about winter. I’ll mention in conversation the respite of cooler evenings and forced relaxation of a frosty morning. The aspen leaves start to change from green to a shocking hue of yellow. I’ll wear a beanie if the temperature drops below 40 degrees at night, and I’ll start to harvest the last leaves of kale and squash from my garden, methodi
  
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• Tired of Ski Shopping? Rossignol's "One Tool Wonder" Makes Having a Single Plank Quiver Easy

  03-10-2026 15:42 via powder.com
  For the last few seasons, Rossignol has been taking the freeride world by storm with their Sender Free 110 and Sender Free 118 skis. A more recent addition, the Sender Free 100, takes that winning layup and slims it down for more versatile all-mountain use (yes, you noticed correctly: the “Free” has been dropped from this line’s name). Not every day can be a powder day, you know? This slighter option borrows heavily from its cousin, the 110, to create a more accessible daily-dr
  
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• Review: 2027 Nordica Unleashed 106

  03-10-2026 15:06 via powder.com
  To me (and probably to most folks west of the Mississippi), Nordica has always been a bit of a sleeper brand. I’ve known for a long time that their skis were excellent, but after they discontinued their Patrón and Soul Rider skis sometime in the last decade, I sort of lost interest. I spent a ton of time on those skis back in the day when they first brought some serious freeride performance to a fun, surfy, twin-tip shape for both powder and all-mountain skiing.Sure, the newer Enfor
  
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• The Best Ski Gear to Use All Year Round

  03-10-2026 13:21 via powder.com
  There’s no use in pretending that outdoor gear isn’t expensive, sometimes prohibitively or unnecessarily so. While I’ve spent the better part of my adult life allocating any extra funds to my outdoor recreation habits and gear addiction, the older I get, the more expenses I have that are probably better spent on my very limited expendable income. As a result, when I am going to buy a piece of gear, it’s much easier to justify spending money on it if it’s something I
  
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• Arizona Snowbowl's $1 Lift Tickets Are Cheaper Than They Were in 1948

  02-10-2026 19:54 via powder.com
  Back in 1948, Arizona Snowbowl offered lift tickets for $1.50. They included unlimited access to the intermediate rope tow. In 2026, you can pay less than that to ski Snowbowl on select dates.
  The resort, like many others in the industry, uses demand-based pricing, adjusting lift ticket prices based on how many skiers are expected to attend on a given date. That can result in pricey days—particularly powder days when all of Flagstaff wants to make some turns—but also means if you pla
  
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• "That Escalated Quickly": First Snow Brings Solid Coverage to Alaskan Ski Resort

  02-10-2026 18:58 via powder.com
  Well, that escalated quickly. So goes an Instagram post from Alyeska, which just got hit with a sizable October storm that blanketed its slopes.
  It was the first snowfall of the season for the Alaskan ski resort, and it delivered far more than the dustings that sometimes ring in the first steps of winter. See below.View this post on InstagramAs of Friday morning, the snow was still sticking around, at least at upper elevations. The Glacier Bowl webcam showed widespread coverage that was, de
  
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• Proposal Submitted To Build Sightseeing Tram Near Glacier National Park

  02-10-2026 17:33 via powder.com
  A new sightseeing tram may be coming to a mountain close to one of the West’s best-known National Parks, but only if it clears a government approval process.
  Pursuit Attractions and Hospitality, a company that operates tourist spots worldwide, including the Banff, Alberta, gondola, announced Thursday that it submitted a proposal to the Forest Service for a tram on the north slopes of Columbia Mountain above Hungry Horse, Montana, near Glacier National Park. The company already operates lod
  
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• Review: 2027 K2 Mindbender 96 & 96W Skis

  02-10-2026 15:53 via powder.com
  New tech, at least when it comes to skis, is often met with criticism and scrutiny. We’ve all been duped by the latest and greatest advancements in ski technology, only to realize it was just a marketing stunt that didn’t provide any real value.
  K2’s “Dark Matter” technology, which is implemented on its newly-refined line of Mindbender skis, isn’t that, thankfully. I was skeptical at first of the little blocks of TPU surrounded by powdered stainless steel, but
  
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• Review: 2027 Ellis Kanso 106 Skis

  02-10-2026 15:01 via powder.com
  During POWDER Week at Grand Targhee Resort, we spent hours talking about and sharing opinions on skis. It might not come as a surprise that most of our tester crew prefers stiffer, more serious skis that are built to handle tough conditions, high speeds, and more aggressive skiing. What did come as a surprise was how much the tester crew liked a ski that falls completely outside that spectrum: the Ellis Kanso 106. 
  Ellis, a small brand out of Colorado, added the 106mm waist Kanso 106 to the
  
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• New Cabins Unwrapped for One of North America's Largest Aerial Tramway Systems

  02-10-2026 13:16 via powder.com
  Brand new, shiny tramway cabins are being unwrapped as Grouse Mountain, British Columbia, prepares to debut an updated version of its classic Red Skyride.
  The cabins look much like those installed at Snowbird, Utah, in 2022, featuring angled front and back windows and a modern look.
  Doppelmayr Canada said in a social media post that the installation marked a “milestone in the modernization of the iconic Skyride aerial tramway,” adding that it was “another step forward in enhanc
  
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• Snowy British Columbia Ski Resort Adds 190 Acres of New Terrain for Next Winter

  02-10-2026 12:01 via powder.com
  Another terrain expansion is coming to British Columbia’s Whitewater Mountain Resort, adding 190 acres to the ski area’s footprint with six new runs, along with other improvements made during the warmer months.
  The change comes to a wooded area called Short Side, which, historically, has been outside Whitewater’s ski area boundary between the Sproulers and Giddy Up Gully runs.
  To clear the way, Whitewater worked with F2 Logging, whose crew spent about a month combing through th
  
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