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• "Stay In Bounds": Rope Ducking Skiers Nearly Die In Canada

  24-02-2025 22:24 via powder.com
  
  Following a grueling overnight rescue, Big White Ski Resort and Central Okanagan Search and Rescue have issued a firm reminder to stay-in bounds while skiing.Big White Ski Patrol, located in British Columbia, Canada, received a call from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) on Sunday, February 23 around 2:15 p.m. about two individuals in distress beyond the resort's boundaries. RCMP activated Search and Rescue efforts from Central Okanagan SAR (COSAR). Big White Ski Patrol and COSAR res
  
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• Hotel Fire at Chile's Nevados de Chillán Forces Ski Resort to Suspend Operations

  08-09-2026 19:49 via powder.com
  A hotel at a popular Chilean ski resort caught fire unexpectedly over the weekend.Footage from the incident showed flames and smoke billowing from the roof of the Hotel Alto Nevados at Nevados De Chillán, a popular ski resort, on September 6, 2026. The fire was initially reported around 5 p.m. on Sunday, when flames originated on the top floor of the hotel.
  The blaze spread rapidly down the structure, which stood five stories tall, as hotel management activated emergency protocols and eva
  
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• The Summer The Thimbleberries Failed

  08-09-2026 19:41 via powder.com
  I’m running under a relentless August sun, up this peaceful mountain trail that bends with the creek that is somehow still flowing. The pines release their scent into the air, welcome and familiar, but the air is hot. I dart to the very edge of the trail any time shade presents itself, if only to feel the reprieve for a moment.
  This is where I come on my lunch breaks to escape the monotony of a computer screen. It’s where my wife and I used to mountain bike together, up the steep tra
  
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• Washington Ski Area Shows Why a "Super El Niño" Forecast Doesn't Guarantee a Bad Season

  08-09-2026 19:20 via powder.com
  A ski area not known for benefiting dramatically from the typical El Niño pattern is pushing back against the idea that its upcoming winter season may be a dud. 
  In a post on its website and an accompanying social media video, Washington’s Summit at Snoqualmie broke down the data from a previous strong El Niño winter—the 2015-16 season—showing that despite the odds not necessarily being in its favor, 402 inches of snow stacked up that year.
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• One Australian Ski Resort Is Making Snow While Others Surrender To Mother Nature

  08-09-2026 17:32 via powder.com
  Australia’s winter of 2026 will be remembered for warm temperatures, a shortage of snow, and nearly every resort closing more than a month earlier than planned.
  Perisher, known as Australia’s largest ski resort, is bucking the trend and remains open, albeit with limited terrain and a minimal snowpack. A recent cold snap, however, should help keep the good times rolling for at least a little while.
  Perisher shared that it fired up its snowmaking guns on Tuesday, September 8, 2026, as
  
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• Smugglers' Notch, Vermont, Is The Latest Ski Resort To Join The Indy Pass

  08-09-2026 16:00 via powder.com
  The Indy Pass has been teasing a new major resort partner for the last few weeks, and finally, today, September 8, 2026, we know who it is—Smugglers’ Notch (Smuggs), Vermont.
  Smuggs is known as a family-friendly resort, but don’t let that reputation fool you. The ski area is home to hundreds of acres of glades, some of the steepest terrain in New England, and averages nearly 300 inches of snowfall annually.
  “Indy Pass gives us an opportunity to invite a new group of skier
  
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• Drumlins: Syracuse’s Lost Ski Hill

  08-09-2026 14:40 via nyskiblog.com
  Mention the word “drumlin” to most people and the response will at best be a blank stare. In Syracuse, however, it’s a familiar geological term describing the long, rounded hills left behind by glaciers during the last Ice Age that shape much of the region’s landscape. Drumlins aren’t unique to that part of the state (they’re found throughout New England and the Upper Midwest); however, conveniently for this article, the term also lends its name to a well-know
  
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• What USDA's Roadless Rule Repeal Could Mean for Outdoor Access

  07-09-2026 12:04 via powder.com
  On August 20, 2026, the US Department of Agriculture and the US Forest Service released an environmental impact statement regarding the potential removal of the Roadless Rule. The statement comes roughly a year after the US Secretary of Agriculture, Brooke Rollins, announced initial plans to repeal the Roadless Rule.
  The rule, which was established in 2001, keeps wilderness areas, including 30% of all national forest lands, from roadway development and timber operations. It is regarded as one of
  
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• Behind the Iconic POWDER Cover That Featured a 150-Foot Ski Jump

  06-09-2026 12:45 via powder.com
  Some people wondered if it was real. A speck—a skier, actually, if you look closely—is framed against a cascading wave of sluff so thick that it could be whitewater. His landing is, well, somewhere? So is his takeoff. But you’d need some imagination to decide where those points in space are against the ominous backdrop of sheer rock and flying snow. Immortalized in a glossy 1999 POWDER cover photo, the 150-foot leap was truly explosive, becoming a piece of media that went far a
  
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• A Historic Ski Cabin Fell Into Disrepair. So They Picked It Up and Moved It.

  05-09-2026 11:36 via powder.com
  A little slice of decades-old ski history, built before many of America’s best-known resorts, isn’t rotting or crumbling away. Well, it was—until Middlebury Snowbowl, the ski area owned by Vermont’s Middlebury College, decided to pick it up and move it. 
  The cabin, named after an early race coach at Middlebury, Richard Hubbard, was loaded onto an extra-wide trailer by New England Building Movers this summer and carted a short distance to its new home, where it’
  
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• Arc'Teryx Launches First Fully Recycled/Recyclable Ski Jacket

  04-09-2026 22:43 via powder.com
  The ski and outdoor industry create a lot of plastic. In fact, nearly everything we bring skiing has some sort of plastic component: boots, skis, ski wax, backpacks, apparel, you name it. A few years ago, Gore-Tex and a few other materials brands stopped using PFAS-heavy ingredients in their fabrics in an effort to reduce their downstream environmental impacts. Today, Arc’teryx, who uses Gore-Tex fabric in nearly all their technical apparel, takes that a step further and introduces System
  
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• New Zealand's Mt. Cheeseman Closes Abruptly After Brutal Rainstorm

  04-09-2026 21:33 via powder.com
  The back half of New Zealand’s ski season is proving to be a mixed bag.
  While Cardrona recently announced plans to extend winter after ample late-season snowfall, Mt. Cheeseman ski area is closing down following a stretch of mild weather and rain. 
  Those uncooperative conditions depleted Mt. Cheeseman’s snowpack to the point that “we do not have a learners area, lift load area or lower T Bar line,” the ski area wrote in a social media post.
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• Trailer for Jim Morrison's New Film, "Everest: The Other Side," Is Here

  04-09-2026 20:02 via powder.com
  A few years ago, National Geographic set out to document Jim Morrison and Hilaree Nelson’s ambitious plan to climb and ski Mt. Everest’s foreboding direct North Face. But during the production, tragedy struck the climbing and life partners when Nelson was killed in a 2022 avalanche on the flanks of the Himalayan peak, Manaslu.
  Morrison decided to honor their plans and still ski the North Face, a feat he completed last year, linking up the Hornbein and Japanese Couloirs. National Geog
  
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• The First Snowflakes of the Season Just Hit These Idaho Mountains

  04-09-2026 19:44 via powder.com
  Old Man Winter has officially shown his face in parts of Idaho, where a dusting of snow fell at higher elevations overnight. The summit of Brundage Mountain Resort, in McCall, Idaho, got a nice coating of snow, that lingered through the early hours of Friday morning.
  Temperatures on the mountain lingered in the high 30’s and low 40’s overnight and while it seems most of the snow had melted away by mid-morning, it’s a promising sign that winter is on the way.While forecasts have
  
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• Ski Santa Fe Proposes Snowmaking Upgrades After Just 70 Inches of Snow Fell Last Season

  04-09-2026 12:18 via powder.com
  Ski Santa Fe, New Mexico, tends to fly under the radar for many American skiers, but don’t let the mountain’s lack of name-brand awareness cloud your judgement.
  Ski Santa Fe is a medium-sized western ski resort with over 1,700 vertical feet of elevation gain, 660 acres of skiable terrain, and 225 inches of annual snowfall.
  Last season will go down as one to forget at Ski Santa Fe, with just 70 inches of natural snowfall, according to the resort’s general manager, Ben Abruzzo. &
  
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• Indy Pass Unveils New Ski Areas for the 2026-27 Season

  04-09-2026 11:26 via powder.com
  The Indy Pass’s new ski area partner rollout ahead of the 2026-27 season continues. 
  Earlier this week, the multi-mountain pass, which separates itself by focusing on independent ski areas, announced that it would have 50-plus new partners to choose from next winter.
  Twenty-five of those were revealed last spring, with Indy opting for a hype-building strategy over the coming days, releasing the yet-unrevealed 30-strong roster in chunks on social media. The additions include alpine and
  
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• ‘I Don’t Want to Die This Way’: Stranded for 15 Hours at Sea

  04-09-2026 11:02 via nytimes.com
  Two longtime friends rented jet skis for an hourlong excursion. They ended up fighting for their lives.
  
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• Denver Offers $11M In Incentives To Keep Alterra From Moving Its Headquarters to Utah

  03-09-2026 21:34 via powder.com
  Alterra Mountain Company, the resort group known for the Ikon Pass, isn’t leaving Colorado, instead shifting its headquarters from one Denver district to the next, per a newly announced agreement.
  This summer, amid reports that the company was considering moving to Utah from its current home in Denver’s RiNo district, local officials put together a package to entice Alterra to stay put, The Denver Post reported. 
  A recent news release from the Governor’s Office also said t
  
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• Even More Australian Ski Resorts Throw in Towel Early Amid Tough Winter

  03-09-2026 19:44 via powder.com
  At ski resorts across Australia, the season continues to end early after a winter with little snow and temperatures that were too warm too often.
  Two more mountains, Falls Creek and Mount Buller, recently announced that they, too, were throwing in the towel.
  “While we wish we could keep it going longer, this will be our final week of lift operations for the season, due to weather and current snow conditions,” wrote Falls Creek in a social media post, adding that closing day will be S
  
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• After 12 Months of Skiing, Copper Mountain Is Finally Preparing To Close

  03-09-2026 19:40 via powder.com
  Seemingly against all odds, Colorado’s Copper Mountain is just now wrapping up its season.This coming weekend (September 5-6, 2026)will mark the final days of operation for Copper’s summer hike park.The park’s closing date of Sunday, September 6, will also mark 12 consecutive months of skiing for Copper Mountain, which welcomed its first skiers last season in October.
  Given the lackluster season Colorado and much of the country experienced last year, the full year of turns is a
  
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• Ski Season To Unofficially Start In Wisconsin In Early-October, Here's How

  03-09-2026 19:34 via powder.com
  Do you know the Troll? Trollhaugen Ski Area in Dresser, Wisconsin, that is.
  Trollhaugen is a small but beloved ski area just over the border from Minnesota. It has influenced terrain park skiing and snowboarding over the decades, thanks to a passionate community of riders, and is frequented by thousands of skiers every year.
  Trollhaugen has also become known for an early-season tradition that is adored by park rats and regular skiers alike—Open Haugen. Utilizing a massive pile of snow that
  
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• RMU Skis Unveils Its 2026–27 Collection, Including the New Apostle 105 Series

  03-09-2026 18:12 via powder.com
  One of the more enigmatic independent ski brands out there, RMU Skis has always marched to the beat of their own drum. Earlier this year, they launched a new mountain bike called the Nighttrain, designed around a mid-pivot suspension design from industry legend Dave Weagle. Now, the brand is announcing the drop of their ’26/’27 ski line, which includes an entire new line of directional freeride skis under the Apostle moniker.“Yes, we make mountain bikes now. No, we haven’
  
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• How To Ride Ski Portillo's Iconic "Slingshot" Ski Lifts

  03-09-2026 18:04 via powder.com
  Ski Portillo, Chile, perhaps the most famous ski resort in South America, is known for numerous defining characteristics: the bright yellow hotel, the beautiful Inca Lake, and its one-of-a-kind Va et Vient ski lifts (translated from French as “coming and going”).
  These one-of-a-kind ski lifts were built in the 1960s by the Poma Company to address a unique problem in avalanche terrain. Much of Ski Portillo’s skiable terrain lies on massive aprons beneath towering, sometimes 15,0
  
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• Line Releases New Fishtail Ski, The Poisson

  03-09-2026 16:29 via powder.com
  Ecoutez, ma chères, Line Skis has just announced the latest addition to their freeride lineup, the Poisson (pronounced pwah-sohn).The ski joins the rest of Line’s Concept Collection, which includes designs like the Blade, Sakana, and Pescado. Poisson, which is French for fish, seems to be reminiscent of the iconic Pescado (also translates to fish), which Eric Pollard originally designed in 2016 using inspiration from fishtail surfboards and snowboards.Although both have fishy origin
  
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• Nonprofit Oregon Ski Area Names New General Manager After Disappointing Season

  03-09-2026 11:27 via powder.com
  The nonprofit ski area Mt. Ashland, Oregon, has named Rachel Canada as its new general manager.
  Tasked with overseeing year-round operations, she’ll help guide several major initiatives, including the replacement of Mt. Ashland’s aging chairlifts and the expansion of summer and off-season programs, the ski area said in a release.
  With more than two decades of experience in mountain operations and resort management, Canada got her start as a skier in Montana, where she first hit the s
  
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• Summer Snow Falls on Mountain Bikers at Mt. Bachelor, Oregon

  02-09-2026 23:14 via powder.com
  Add another resort to the “ski resorts that have already seen their first snowfall” list—it’s snowing at Mt. Bachelor, Oregon!
  The popular ski resort near Bend took to Instagram on Wednesday, September 2, 2026, to share a quick video of the season’s first flakes falling. The caption was simple, and reveled in the excitement of the changing of the seasons: “Guys, it’s happening… Video courtesy of Pro Patrol,” wrote Mt. Bachelor.
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• Beloved New Mexico Cross-Country Ski Area To Close After "Difficult" Winters

  02-09-2026 20:50 via powder.com
  After 40 years, Enchanted Forest, a cross-country skiing staple in New Mexico near Red River, has announced that it won’t open for the 2026-27 season, citing fickle snow conditions and the cost of liability insurance and other expenses, but owners still believe it could have a second life. 
  The decision, penned in a letter published by owners Ellen Miller-Goins and Geoff Goins, wasn’t “easy.”
  “Enchanted Forest has never been just a business to us
  
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• $650k Loan Issued to Oregon's Anthony Lakes Mountain Resort

  02-09-2026 19:42 via powder.com
  A small Oregon ski area is getting a big chunk of funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.On August 31, 2026, the Department’s Rural Development Oregon State Director, Jim Carmack, announced that $650,000 will go to Anthony Lakes Recreation Area to support the construction of a new ski rental shop and the greater local economy.
  The USDA’s Rural Economic Development Loan and Grant Program (REDLG) partnered with Oregon Trail Electric Cooperative (OTEC) to help fund the project,
  
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• After Merger, GoPro Hopes To Expand in AI, Defense, and Aerospace Markets

  02-09-2026 19:37 via powder.com
  Amid a sagging stock price and years of struggle in an increasingly competitive action camera market, GoPro—the brand known for documenting ski descents and action sports the world over from a POV angle—has announced “definitive” plans to merge with Starman Optical, a privately held optical-photonics company and subsidiary of Starman Holding.
  Starman Optical is set to pay $285 million in cash for GoPro in a deal that Reuters reported would repay&n
  
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• Summer Snowfall Blankets North America's Tallest Peak

  02-09-2026 17:29 via powder.com
  There are twenty days left of summer, but Denali National Park in Alaska has skipped over fall and plunged straight into winter. Well, for now, anyways.
  The National Weather Service station in Fairbanks, Alaska, confirmed on September 1, 2026, that “plenty of fresh snow” fell on Denali, North America’s tallest peak, and the surrounding peaks as well.
  “Check out the snowy view this morning from the Eielson Visitor Center in Denali National Park!” wrote NWS Fairbanks.
  
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