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• Salomon Announces Dates For The Quality Ski Time Film Tour

  15-09-2023 17:41 via powder.com
  
  The Quality Ski Time Film Tour, Salomon's annual tour, is hitting the road in the near future on October 3rd.The North American tour features five short films starring athletes like Josh Daiek, Cody Townsend, Stan Rey, Claire McPherson, and Mali Noyes. I'd list every skier and production company involved, but that'd probably be an exhausting read because this tour is jam-packed with skiing goodness.To scope the full lineup and tour dates, which covers locations from North America to Europe, clic
  
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• Snow Has Arrived at Silverton Mountain, Colorado and Skiers Are Making Powder Turns

  14-10-2026 21:55 via powder.com
  Have you heard the good news? Snow is falling in Colorado, and Silverton Mountain, the Centennial State’s big mountain and backcountry hotbed, is scoring.
  The ski area known for its lone chairlift and expansive heli-skiing isn’t planning to open until December 31, 2026, but that hasn’t stopped Mother Nature from dumping snow. And while an official snowfall total hasn’t been reported, it looks like the snow is stacking up by the feet, not inches.
  Some of Silverton’s
  
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• Arizona Snowbowl Fires Up Snowmaking as Temps Drop and El Niño Approaches

  14-10-2026 20:57 via powder.com
  This is not a drill. Arizona Snowbowl is blowing snow.
  The resort announced that, starting at 8 p.m. on Tuesday, October 13, 2026, it fired up its snow guns from the top of the Arizona Gondola down to Agassiz Lodge. The resort said it’s “seen solid temps through the night and well into this morning” and asked skiers to “keep your fingers crossed for cold temps!”
  Courtesy Arizona Snowbowl
  While the skies are now clear and the temperatures are expected to crest just a
  
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• Alta Ski Area Adds Pricey Fines for Skiers Who No-Show Parking Reservations

  14-10-2026 20:21 via powder.com
  Alta is far from the only ski area to implement weekend and holiday parking reservations, but a new rule for Winter 26/27 is being celebrated among the Alta faithful.
  Parking is limited in Little Cottonwood Canyon, and while Alta’s parking reservations have mitigated some overcrowding and traffic woes in recent years, many skiers have been frustrated by the number of no-shows on a given weekend.Alta skiers, it seems, have a tendency to book a scrupulous amount of parking reservations for w
  
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• The Best All-Mountain Skis of 2027

  14-10-2026 19:55 via powder.com
  There are skis you dream about for those once-a-season days, and then there are skis that actually make sense to own. We get it. Big, fat powder skis are dreamy, and what we all wish we could be riding most days of the season. They’re exotic and aspirational, and really really fun. And that’s fine. But, sometimes you’ve got to think about the rest of your days on the mountain. In fact, let’s be real, if you ski a lot, that ends up being most days on the mountain.And for a
  
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• Stunning Photos Show Alta Ski Area's First Major Snowfall of the Season

  14-10-2026 19:16 via powder.com
  Fall colors. Plenty of white. This is October at Alta Ski Area, Utah, where a recent storm produced the most coverage the resort’s seen so far this season. 
  As of 4:15 p.m. on October 13, the resort was measuring 13 inches of settled snowfall, a number that, per the snow report, hasn’t grown so far but may have increased by the time you read this. Either way, just over a foot was more than enough to transform the slopes of Alta.
  Other resorts benefitted, too. Alta’s neighb
  
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• AccuWeather's Winter 26/27 Forecast Says Super El Niño Will Bode Well for Some Skiers

  14-10-2026 18:58 via powder.com
  Somewhere, in an alternate universe far away, a metaphorical Paul Revere is riding down the cobblestone streets of Boston yelling, “El Niño is coming! El Niño is coming! El Niño is coming!”
  As the Pacific Ocean continues to warm, a strong, or even “super” El Niño seems all the more likely this winter. NOAA says a “strong to very strong” El Niño has an 83% chance of taking shape in January-March of 2027; California Governor Ga
  
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• Review: 2027 Ellis Sabr 100 Skis

  14-10-2026 14:16 via powder.com
  There’s a reason restaurants have a menu of food options. Variety is cool. One day, you might be craving a burger, when the next, you might really want healthy salad. Even small ski brands play into that psychological phenomenon, like Colorado’s Ellis Skis, who only offer three models as part of their portfolio. At first glance, the three options may look very similar—progressive twin tip freeride skis—but on snow, the three create an extremely well-rounded collection.The
  
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• Test After Test, Rossignol's Freeride Ski With "Point-and-Shoot" Performance Still Hits the Mark

  14-10-2026 13:32 via powder.com
  True quiver-of-one freeride skis are hard to find, especially since their usability largely depends on where you spend most of your time skiing and what your definition of “fun” might be on skis, but Rossignol’s Sender Free 110 might be the one. Unchanged from last year, the Sender Free 110 retains its hard-charging yet approachable and friendly design.
  One of the most approachable freestyle powder skis ever made, the Sender Free 110 bridges the gap between high-speed crud-bust
  
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• Markus Eder Dusts Off His Park Tricks in New Edit

  14-10-2026 11:47 via powder.com
  Markus Eder’s dipped his toes in just about every ski discipline. He ventured to Russia for freeskiing’s inaugural Olympics slopestyle competition in 2014 and, five years later, won the overall Freeride World Tour title. And if you throw in big mountain shred flicks The Ultimate Run and Circle of Madness, he’s got the video side of the equation covered, too.
  Despite all the receipts, though, his versatility always comes as a bit of a surprise, as evidenced by his latest short e
  
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• Mountain Bike World Cup at Mount van Hoevenberg

  14-10-2026 00:40 via nyskiblog.com
  I was at Mount van Hoevenberg for two days for the final UCI mountain bike World Cup weekend. I didn’t make it over to Whiteface for the downhill races. On Friday, I was a volunteer, and on Saturday, I returned as a spectator. Why volunteer at ORDA events? It can be fun, and every day that you volunteer, you get a voucher that’s good at any of the ORDA venues. When my kiddo visits from NJ, there will be free » Read More »
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• Rumors Spread That Keystone Is Opening Next Weekend, but Hold Your Horses

  13-10-2026 21:27 via powder.com
  The conditions look promising. The track record is there. And, as some avid skiers noticed, tickets are on sale for Saturday, October 24, 2026. Is that opening day for Keystone Resort, Colorado?!
  Maybe. Maybe not. We can’t say quite yet.
  A representative from Keystone clarified in an email to POWDER that the resort does not have an official opening day aside from its previously shared plan to open “as early as possible” when conditions allow.
  “The ability to buy a single-
  
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• Utah's Ski Resorts Tally Multiple Inches of Snow With More on the Way

  13-10-2026 20:26 via powder.com
  In Utah, winter’s showing out. 
  All across the state, from Brian Head to the Cottonwood Canyons, resorts clocked snowfall, some of it serious. Snowbird’s snow stake is sitting encouragingly around the ten-inch mark, with some flakes still falling.The upper reaches of Alta Ski Area are covered in a pristine, white coat. At the top of the Crest lift, Brighton’s webcam is all fogged up, in a good way.
  Alta’s Sugarloaf Peak webcam on Tuesday afternoon.Alta Ski Area
  A win
  
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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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