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• These Montana Ski Resorts Are Opening Now, and Fans Are Thrilled

  04-12-2025 14:00 via powder.com
  
  Despite a slow start to the season, winter is finally creeping its way into the Rockies, and a few ski areas in Montana have announced opening dates this week.A storm that came through in the last week dropped 4-8" of snow on ski areas all over Montana, and there's significantly more in the forecast. While at this point, forecasts in the West feel like more of a disappointing tease than anything, the shred of optimism we have left thinks the next bit could be pretty darn good for MT skiers.Here'
  
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• 9 Major Ski Resorts Are Opening This Weekend, Here's Where to Be

  05-12-2025 22:21 via powder.com
  
  Although it's later than anyone wanted, and there might not be much terrain open, a chunk of ski resorts, particularly in the Western US, are finally opening for the season this coming weekend.
  Several resorts have started spinning lifts over the last week, including Jackson Hole, Sun Valley, and Big Sky, and there are more on the way to join them this weekend.
  A storm cycle is in the process of dropping up to two feet of snow on parts of Wyoming and Colorado this weekend and over the next week,
  
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• Ryan Cochran-Siegle Lands First American Beaver Creek Downhill Podium Since 2014

  05-12-2025 21:27 via powder.com
  
  For the first time since 2014, an American stood on the World Cup downhill podium in Beaver Creek, Colorado, this week.That honor went to Vermont's Ryan Cochran-Siegle. He took second in the downhill race, finishing behind the ever-dominant Swiss skier Marco Odermatt. Norway’s Adrian Smiseth Sejersted claimed third.Tap or click below to watch highlights from the race. Keep reading for more.The 2026 POWDER Photo Annual is here! Look for a print copy on a newsstand near you, or click here to
  
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• 20+" of Snow Allows Snowmass To Open Top-to-Bottom Terrain

  05-12-2025 21:17 via powder.com
  
  While other ski areas are hurting for snow, Aspen Mountain and Aspen Snowmass are celebrating a storm that allowed them to open terrain. The Colorado ski resorts have received 21" of snow this week, adding a healthy amount to their 13" base depth.
  This last storm allowed the resort to open one of its four mountains, Snowmass, from top to bottom. As of Friday, December 5, 2025, Village Express is open and allowing terrain access from Sam's Knob to Snowmass Village. Aspen Mountain will join Snowma
  
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• Kim Kardashian Expands SKIMS x The North Face Line With New Outerwear and Kids Gear

  05-12-2025 19:26 via powder.com
  
  Kim Kardashian’s shapewear label SKIMS is returning to the snow sports world with a The North Face collaboration that includes outerwear and base layers.The line, which releases online and in select stores on December 9, features muted colors and some unconventional-seeming silhouettes, including what looks to be a down bathrobe. There are hats, slippers, and gloves, too. New for 2025 is SKIMS x The North Face kidswear, including coats, hats, footwear, and helmets. Prices range from $55 to
  
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• Palisades Tahoe Debuts $12,000 Club With Priority Lines and Private Lounges

  05-12-2025 12:12 via powder.com
  
  This winter, for $12,000, skiers and snowboarders at Palisades Tahoe, California, can join the exclusive Apex Club, gaining access to priority chairlift lines and private lounges.While word of the Apex Club has already gotten out, the ski resort officially introduced the club in a press release on Wednesday, sharing the details of what membership includes. There are two lounges to choose from for members: the Apex Lounge and the Mid-Mountain Lounge at Gold Coast.The Apex Lounge “is th
  
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• Can Killington Become the ‘Aspen of the East’? Maybe With a $3 Billion Upgrade.

  05-12-2025 11:00 via nytimes.com
  A developer wants to add luxury housing and a glossy base area complete with everything from a spa to a ‘ski beach’ to the resort, which has never been known for its amenities. But is Vermont ready for it?
  
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• After A Late Start to Season, Alta Finally Announces Opening Day

  04-12-2025 23:26 via powder.com
  
  After a bit of a delay to start of winter in the Wasatch, Alta Ski Area has announced their new opening date. The beloved Utah ski area will officially open for the 2025/26 ski season on Sunday, December 7, 2025.
  A storm is currently forecasted to hit the area starting on Friday afternoon and continuing into Saturday night. As of now, 8-12" are expected to fall Friday night alone, with another 4-6" on Saturday. Given the forecast, Alta is currently planning for a limited opening.
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• 6? 7? New Hampshire Ski Resort Hops on Viral Trend With Discounted Lift Tickets

  04-12-2025 20:35 via powder.com
  
  For technically being part of Gen Z, I am painfully behind the times on most social media trends and trends generally. Luckily, my coworkers are far more with it than I am and have informed me of a social media trend based on a Skrilla song called 'Doot Doot (6 7)' that originated on TikTok. Trust me, I know how much of a boomer I sound like already. Anyway, apparently, as part of this trend, people find ways to use the numbers 6 & 7 for things and put the audio behind it. New Hampshire
  
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• Maine’s Hilarious Holiday Event With Hundreds of Skiing Santas Is Back

  04-12-2025 20:06 via powder.com
  
  Sunday River is bringing back one of their most beloved—and strange—holiday traditions.
  For one day, more than 250 fully fledged Santas, beard and all, will descend on Sunday River for a day of Christmas cheer and skiing. As the resort's event page put it, "No, you're not hallucinating; this is Santa Sunday." It sounds like an eggnog-induced fever dream to us, but we're here for it!Santa Sunday returns to Sunday River on December 14, 2025.
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• PBR x RMU Just Dropped New Skis, Is This “Peak Ski Culture”?

  04-12-2025 19:36 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.Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer and skiing have a long history together, and it's not just the kind of history that happens in divey après mountain town bars, ski movie premieres, or with cans snuck onto chairlifts. Every few years, we'll see the legendary Blue Ribbon show up on the topsheets of a pair of skis proudly sported in a liftline or retired to the wall of a favor
  
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• A Powerful Northwest Flow Is Set To Bury Western Ski Resorts in Feet of Snow

  04-12-2025 19:28 via powder.com
  
  A potent storm cycle driven by a classic northwest flow pattern is set to deliver significant snowfall across the Western US through the weekend. The energy kicks off in the Pacific Northwest and Northern Rockies Thursday night, delivering heavy totals to the Tetons by Friday morning. The moisture plume shifts south and east, setting up a major powder event for Utah’s Wasatch Range and Northern Colorado (specifically Steamboat) Friday night into Saturday. While wind issues and fluctuating
  
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• UDOT's Plan for Big Cottonwood Canyon Ski Traffic? More Buses and Tolls

  04-12-2025 18:59 via powder.com
  
  The Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT) has unveiled a new plan to address traffic in Big Cottonwood Canyon on SR-190 just outside Salt Lake City. The proposed approaches? More buses and tolling.Big Cottonwood Canyon is home to two popular ski resorts—Brighton and Solitude—and has developed a reputation for major winter congestion.“Anyone who’s tried to get up the canyon on a busy winter morning knows how challenging it can be,” UDOT project manager Devin Weder
  
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• Why Is Utah's New Olympic Logo Drawing Mixed Feedback?

  04-12-2025 12:12 via powder.com
  
  Scheduled for 2034, North American many skiing fans are eagerly anticipating the Utah Winter Olympics, but the event’s newly revealed logo has proven somewhat controversial online. Why? Critics mostly don't like the way it looked.The “Utah 2034” transitional logo, which has been described as "cutting edge" and "bold," uses unconventional, blocky text. When the X page for the upcoming Games posted to debut the logo, there were more than a few adverse reactions. One commente
  
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• Alta’s Terrain Pushes Two Freeride Skiers to the Limit in Exciting SLVSH Match

  03-12-2025 20:14 via powder.com
  
  If you ever needed a reminder to visit Alta Ski Area, Utah, let this be it.Last April, freeride skiers Ross Tester and Tristen Lilly faced off in an all-mountain game of SLVSH at Alta, fighting for the win as they made ample use of the resort’s natural jumps and cliffs.Both skiers came into the casual competition with plenty of bona fides. If you’re a Freeride World Tour fan, Tester is a name you’ll recognize. He’s put down more than a few memorable lines on the circ
  
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• This Unique Ski Movie Blends Skiing, Rapping, and Spoken Word

  03-12-2025 19:29 via powder.com
  
  Snow streaks across a dark screen. Wind whistles in the background and is joined by the rhythm of jazz drumming. Despite the separation provided by the screen, the viewer feels the chill of a cold, stormy winter night. The drum solo intensifies, and a blurry light in the distance appears. If hip hop is culture, then rap is the story.The light becomes a tent, lit from within, and then a dark skin track and a skier with a headlamp approaches before cutting away to a car on a city street in wa
  
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• Deer Valley Ski Resort Sets New Opening Date as Major Utah Storm Approaches

  03-12-2025 19:08 via powder.com
  
  After a warm and slow start, ski season is finally starting to get underway in Utah.Deer Valley will kick off the 2025-26 season on Friday, December 5, for a passholder appreciation day. A general public opening follows on Saturday.The early season terrain offerings include three runs—Birdseye, Silver Link, and Success—serviced by three chairlifts: Carpenter Express, Sterling Express, and Homestake Express.Skiers will start their days at the Snow Park Lodge. The Deer Valley East Vill
  
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• Eileen Gu, Gus Kenworthy, and More: Who To Watch at Snow League's First Event

  03-12-2025 16:35 via powder.com
  
  Shaun White's game-changing Snow League is about to kick off its second-ever event at Yunding Snow Park in China.
  From December 4-6, 2025, the best athletes in freeskiing and snowboarding will compete at the Snow League at the site of the 2022 Beijing Olympics.
  The event not only kicks off the 2025/26 winter season for the Snow League (although last winter's Aspen event will be counted towards this season), but it's also the debut of the freeskiing category for the Snow League.
  The Snow League h
  
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• Colorado Driver Captures Subaru’s Wild Near-Crash on I-70

  03-12-2025 16:28 via powder.com
  
  There are close calls. Then, there are close calls.Michael Walsh, who runs a mobile ski and snowboard tune shop, captured the latter on Colorado’s I-70, a famed freeway that connects Denver to a slew of popular ski resorts. In Walsh’s video, a Subaru whips up behind a group of slower-moving cars, then loses traction and veers off the road. That’s when things get interesting.Tap or click the video below to watch. Keep reading for more.The 2026 POWDER Photo Annual is here! L
  
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• Pennsylvania's Ski Resorts Tally Fresh Snow as Opening Dates Arrive

  03-12-2025 16:23 via powder.com
  
  Snow is flying at resorts across Pennsylvania as the start of the ski season arrives.Camelback Resort, one of the state’s best-known mountains, first fired up its chairlifts today, December 3, 2025. The opening included the Nile Mile and Sunbowl trails with access via the Stevenson Lift and the Sunbowl lifts, which are operating between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m.The mountain, in a press release, noted that it’s tracking towards a solid early-season lineup thanks to its ongoing investments in
  
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• First Look: 25/26 Atomic x Arc'teryx Grottoflage Collab

  03-12-2025 14:07 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.It's no surprise that limited-edition topsheets are all the rage these days–I mean what better way for a ski brand to make an already desirable product even more coveted? For the second year running, Austrian ski maker Atomic and Canadian outerwear maker Arc'teryx are teaming up to release a new line of special-edition products straight from the minds of two of the
  
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• Don't Let High Production Value Fool You, "Yard Sale" is By Ski Bums, For Ski Bums

  03-12-2025 13:39 via powder.com
  
  If there's anything skiing was really missing this fall, it was a true bro-fest of a film. There's nothing that transports you back to those perfect sled skiing days with the boys like 45 minutes of reliving them with skiers like Josh Anderson, Garrett Balen, Brandon Craddock, Josh Gold, and more.
  Luckily, the Ski For the Love crew just released their new film, Yard Sale, so you can do just that.
  Yard Sale follows a crew of (mostly) Tahoe skiers as they tick off spicy sled-accessed zones in the
  
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• How to Ski: A Beginner’s Guide

  03-12-2025 11:00 via nytimes.com
  What to know about gear, ski passes, classes and more.
  
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• This Ski Area Could Become the First To Open in Washington State

  02-12-2025 22:04 via powder.com
  
  Washington’s ski season is slated to start on Thursday, December 4, 2025, when Mission Ridge begins welcoming skiers and snowboarders.The mountain in eastern Washington plans to host a limited opening with Chair 1, Chair 2, and the Pika Peak Rope Tow, starting at 9 a.m. Terrain will include Sunspot, Tumwater, Mimi, and the Pika Peak learning area.Mission Ridge credited the planned opening to a sustained stretch of cold temperatures that allowed its snowmakers to make “tremendous prog
  
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• America's Olympic SkiMo Hopes Are Riding on 20-Year-Old Griffin Briley

  02-12-2025 21:57 via powder.com
  
  Acclimating and preparing meticulously for ski mountaineering’s Olympic debut at Milan-Cortina 2026, American Griffin Briley recently benefited from a valuable pre-season training camp, exploring vast terrain around the Italian Dolomites and Stelvio Pass. The future Olympic venue in Bormio lies below.“We had a really productive trip to Italy – we spent four days at the Stelvio Pass, practicing downhill, doing laps, and working on technique with a coach,” Briley tells POWD
  
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• Jackson Hole Ski Resort Confirms New Opening Day, Feet of Snow in Forecast

  02-12-2025 20:30 via powder.com
  
  After a brief weather delay, Jackson Hole, Wyoming, is back in business with the possibility of heavy snow in the forecast.The ski resort now plans to open this week on Thursday, December 4, 2025, with three lifts operating: Teewinot, Après Vous, and the Sweetwater Gondola up to the Mid-Station.Those lifts will access a group of beginner and intermediate runs. As expected, early-season hazards will exist, so skiers should be on the lookout for rocks and stumps.Alongside the ski terrain, J
  
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• Don’t Blindly Follow TikTok: Stowe Rescuers Warn of Surging Backcountry Calls

  02-12-2025 18:55 via powder.com
  
  The local search and rescue organization in Stowe, Vermont, has some advice for skiers and snowboarders: don’t blindly follow what you see on TikTok.According to Stowe Mountain Rescue, epic powder videos shared on social media are luring unprepared people into the backcountry around Stowe Mountain Resort. The mountain’s ski patrol has been inundated with an unprecedented number of calls to rescue lost skiers, the organization said.“Our team has been called in to help several ti
  
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• Mammoth Is Open, But How Is The Snow? I Drove There To Find Out

  02-12-2025 18:48 via powder.com
  
  I was shoving a delicious bite of a breakfast burrito down my throat when I heard a fellow skier ask a Mammoth Mountain employee what time the lifts open.
  "Lifts open at 8:30," the friendly employee replied.I looked down at my phone to check the time. It was 8:28 a.m. I had been taking my time with the massive burrito, thinking that the lifts spun at 9, but when I saw that there was hardly a line for Mammoth's Chair 2, I scarfed the remaining potatoes, eggs, and bacon down like a ravenous animal
  
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• 'It's Got To Get A Lot Cheaper.' Leading Telemark DIYer Jason Quintana Has A Few Thoughts On The Future Of Free-Heel

  02-12-2025 16:41 via powder.com
  
  In a matter-of-fact but almost philosophical manner, Jason Quintana, perhaps telemark skiing’s most talented home innovator, is making sweeping points; not just about the state of telemark equipment, something he has shaped greatly over decades. But of the current milieu the telemark world finds itself in.“You haven’t even done anything and you’re in $1300 already,” he says of how expensive telemark equipment has become before comparing it to alpine counterparts. &l
  
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• Meet the Colorado Sisters Making the Backcountry More Welcoming

  02-12-2025 16:09 via powder.com
  
  The backcountry is for everybody. Well, it should be for everybody, but a slew of obstacles—both personal and societal—make it easier for some groups to hit the skin-track than others. That’s where VNTRbirds (pronounced "venture birds"), a Colorado-based adventure company, comes in. Co-founded by sisters Leanne and Kelley Wren, the outfit offers outdoor sports courses for women and femme folks. This includes AIARE courses, avalanche safety refreshers, and, after the snow m
  
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