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• These Ski Brands Are Purposely Skipping The Black Friday Hype

  26-11-2025 15:33 via powder.com
  
  We're definitely suckers for a good deal, especially right before ski season–but there's plenty of good reasons that some brands are skipping the whole Black Friday/Cyber Monday thing on principle. For one, rampant consumerism and the never-ending drive to always want the next greatest thing lead to over-consumption and unsustainable manufacturing industry-wide. Turns out, that's one of the main drivers of climate change, which is directly–and at this point likely irreversibly–
  
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• Do You Wear a Ski Helmet? We Asked Over 8,000 Skiers for Their Opinion

  04-01-2026 15:03 via powder.com
  
  It’s Sunday, and you know what that means—we’re back with the results of another POWDER Weekly Poll!This time, we asked readers a classic question: Do you wear a ski helmet?Here’s what 8,837 skiers had to say.POWDER Weekly Poll ResultsThe 2026 POWDER Photo Annual is here! Look for a print copy on a newsstand near you, or click here to have a copy shipped directly to your front door.Poll HighlightsTotal Votes: 8,837Number of Votes on Instagram: 2,350Num
  
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• Cazenovia: Hitting the Club

  03-01-2026 16:20 via nyskiblog.com
  There’s nothing better than hitting the club on New Years Eve. The club I favor has an old Hall T-Bar and this year featured 16 inches of new lake effect snow. When Evan, Tiff and I pulled into the lot and looked up the hill, we knew it was going to be all-time. Untouched snow as far as we could see. We geared up and headed to the new lift ticket window in the Wax Hut. I saw friend and » Read More »
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• The POWDER Staff Discusses Their Favorite Ski Movies of the Year

  03-01-2026 15:00 via powder.com
  
  Welcome to 2026. In the spirit of the New Year, we—the POWDER crew—decided to make note of the recent ski movies we loved most. This isn’t a judged, finely-tuned selection, because none of us has watched all of the countless ski movies that came out at the end of 2025. Instead, for this list, we each wrote about the movie that, personally, we found the most entertaining or impactful. The 2026 POWDER Photo Annual is here! Look for a print copy on a newsstand near you, or cl
  
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• Monarch Mountain Offers Free Tickets to Skiers After Telluride Resort Closure

  02-01-2026 22:41 via powder.com
  
  As the unionized patrol strike and associated closure of Telluride Ski Resort continue, another Colorado mountain is offering free lift tickets to those impacted. Monarch Mountain, in a social media post, announced, “Telluride employees and their dependents, guests with a valid Telluride season pass or anyone with proof of a Telluride day-ticket purchased between December 29 and January 8, 2026 are eligible for three complimentary lift tickets.”“We care deeply about our sk
  
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• Soggy Weather Forces Closure of Popular Pacific Northwest Ski Resort

  02-01-2026 21:07 via powder.com
  
  Parts of the Pacific Northwest rang in the New Year with quite a bit of precipitation, but not the kind skiers want. As the ball dropped on the New Year in Pacific Time, a storm brought significant rainfall to Mt. Hood and Mt. Bachelor, Oregon.Mt. Hood saw a wintry mix turn to rain Thursday evening, with temperatures in the mid-high 30's. Rain and wet snow have continued through Friday morning. Mt. Hood Meadows, which opened for the season on December 23, spun lifts on New Year's Day despite the
  
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• Dozens Dead After Tragic New Year's Blaze at Swiss Ski Resort Bar

  02-01-2026 20:27 via powder.com
  
  Forty people are dead and 119 are injured after flames tore through a bar at the popular ski destination Crans-Montana, Switzerland, on New Year’s Eve, according to local police.Reportedly, the fire broke out around 1:30 a.m. local time on January 1 as partiers celebrated the New Year at Le Constellation, the bar where the disaster took place.“What was a moment of joy turned into a tragedy in Crans-Montana last night, felt across the country and beyond,” Switzerland’s pre
  
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• Stevens Pass Ski Resort Celebrates "Opening Day 2.0" After Crucial Road Access Restored

  02-01-2026 19:31 via powder.com
  
  After a bumpy start, the ski season seems to be back on track.West side access to Stevens Pass, a mountain popular among Seattle, Washington, skiers, has been restored only weeks after Highway 2 was damaged and closed during a period of torrential rain. The opening came sooner than expected. When Highway 2 first shuttered in early December, Governor Bob Ferguson said the closure between Skykomish and Leavenworth would last for months.The 2026 POWDER Photo Annual is here! Look for a print copy on
  
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• Nearly 4 Feet of Snow Forecasted to Fall Across California Ski Resorts

  02-01-2026 18:33 via powder.com
  
  High-Level SummaryA brief lull on Friday gives way to a stronger, longer-duration Sierra storm that ramps up late Friday night and runs through early Monday, with snow levels starting high and then dropping steadily into Sunday and Monday. Saturday favors higher-elevation terrain, but snow will be dense, and winds will be strong on exposed ridges. The best combination of depth and quality lines up Sunday into Monday as colder air lowers snow levels, snow ratios improve into more skiable packed p
  
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• James Bond Stuntman Recalls Skiing Down Italian Bobsled Track in 'For Your Eyes Only'

  02-01-2026 12:12 via powder.com
  
  It is still remembered as one of the most thrilling and memorable sports action sequences across six decades of James Bond Films.Italian stuntman Giovanni Dibona evaded the pursuit of black-clad assassins on motorcycles, while careening down the sweeping curves of the Olympic bobsled track in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy, in the 1981 Bond classic For Your Eyes Only. It was part of a daring and intricately designed skiing sequence that began at the 1956 Olympic ski jump, continued at high
  
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• Crans-Montana is a Historic Swiss Ski Resort Town Popular With International Tourists

  01-01-2026 19:22 via nytimes.com
  The town is known for its gourmet food, luxury stores, and for hosting major sporting events. The Crans-Montana Resort, which does not operate the bar that caught fire, was acquired by Vail Resorts in 2024.
  
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• Crans-Montana Bar Fire Victims Transported Across Switzerland for Treatment

  01-01-2026 16:47 via nytimes.com
  Patients were taken by helicopter and jet to bigger, specialized hospitals in Geneva, Zurich and Lausanne.
  
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• California's 6'7" Skier Bryce Bennett Will Have an Edge at The Winter Olympics

  01-01-2026 12:38 via powder.com
  
  Bryce Bennett towers above his fellow downhill racers standing six-foot-seven inches tall, while his long legs enable him to brilliantly absorb vast and varied terrain while rifling down mountainsides.The 14-year U.S. Ski Team veteran from Truckee, California, attributes much of his ski racing style and success to years of freeskiing, able to react in a heartbeat, instinctively navigating whatever is thrown at him. “Growing up in Palisades, it was kind of what you did. There were so m
  
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• 36 Hours in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy: Things to Do and See

  01-01-2026 11:01 via nytimes.com
  A snowy playground for the conspicuously wealthy and a co-host of the 2026 Winter Olympics, this tiny Dolomite town is ready for its close-up.
  
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• Skier Front Flips Off One of Palisades Tahoe’s Most Feared Lines

  31-12-2025 15:19 via powder.com
  
  How do you shake off the cobwebs when the ski season starts? I tend to make a few groomer laps. Then, after getting my ski boots under me, I might start venturing into tougher terrain. That approach, I assume, will look similar to most skiers. Isaac Kaufman, however, prefers the equivalent of a quadruple shot espresso—mixed with a bit of Monster energy, for good measure.Only days after Palisades Tahoe, California, received enough snow to open its upper mountain, Kaufman ventured to Mc
  
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• POWDER Gear Editor Max Ritter's Predictions for 2026

  31-12-2025 14:17 via powder.com
  
  I can't predict the future, but I have opinions on what we're going to be seeing next year in the wide world of skiing. Here they are.Here's what ski boot innovation looked like back in 1978.Photo: Powder Magazine Volume 7, Issue 2Ski Boot InnovationSki boots are as good as they've ever been, but it's no secret that there's plenty of room for improvement. Looking into my witchy crystal ball, I'm going to make a prediction that we're going to see some pretty big changes and ma
  
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• The Best Ski Playlist, According to Me

  31-12-2025 13:19 via powder.com
  
  Editor's Note: This article is the second installment of Chairlift Chatter, a column written by Izzy Lidsky. Stay tuned for more columns right here at powder.com.Skiing with or without music is a somewhat polarizing topic, depending on who you ask.
  However, in most cases, I fall firmly in the camp of skiing with tunes. I grew up watching ski movies, and the imagery of watching my favorite skiers shred lines with an amazing song in the background is something that never left my psyche. It's no se
  
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• Meet Chris Owens, Alaska's Miracle Maker

  31-12-2025 12:21 via powder.com
  
  This story originally appeared in the print magazine POWDER 2026 Photo Annual. Copies are still available while supplies last. Click here to get yours.Advance TeamOnly 18 percent of Alaska’s land mass is accessible by car. It’s that remoteness—along, of course, with the massive mountains and maritime snowpack—that has cemented AK’s place as skiing’s final frontier. It can also make the 49th state a risky and expensive place to do business.
  
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• Whistler Officials Discover "Fraudulent" QR Codes In Parking Lots

  30-12-2025 22:12 via powder.com
  
  Paid parking at ski areas has been a point of contention since resorts started implementing it.
  As if skiing wasn't expensive enough already, paying for parking has unfortunately become an expected part of the ski experience in many places. After all, there is something to be said for the convenience of many paid lots. While you may not like it, odds are at some point you've accepted paying Vail Resorts, or whomever, $18 a day for parking, but what if that money wasn't actually going to the reso
  
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• Telluride Resumes Snowmaking, Is Working To Reopen "As Soon as Possible"

  30-12-2025 20:51 via powder.com
  
  The popular Colorado ski resort, Telluride, announced that it has resumed snowmaking efforts and is working on a plan to safely reopen as soon as possible amid a unionized ski patrol strike that began on December 27, at the height of the busy holiday season.“Please stay tuned for further updates,” the resort wrote in the social media update, noting that colder temperatures have allowed for snowmaking. The mountain, like others in Colorado, has seen a warm and largely snowless start t
  
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• Is Tecnica’s Upcoming “Decoy” Boot the Best Touring Boot Yet? Spy Shots Say Maybe

  30-12-2025 17:45 via powder.com
  
  Backcountry touring boots have come a long way since the days of wearing leather boots and skiing on cable "Kandahar" bindings. Today, most manufacturers make some sort walkable/tourable boot that allows for more efficient and comfortable uphill travel–but there's a few boots that have really stood out in the crowd. Perhaps the most ubiquitous of modern touring boots, Tecnica's Zero G Tour Pro, has long been rumored to be getting a bigger, badder cousin, and we think that moment is finally
  
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• Learning How To Ski as an Adult Was Scary, but I'm Forever Grateful

  30-12-2025 14:45 via powder.com
  
  This story originally appeared in the print magazine POWDER 2026 Photo Annual. Copies are still available while supplies last. Click here to get yours.Adult Onset SkiingI am not one of the lucky ones who skied from the time I could walk. Nope, I grew up on the edge of the Southern California desert, made from equal parts dusty ponderosa forest and saltwater. The rugged San Bernardino Mountains were my family’s regular playground, hiking and camping in our giant orange t
  
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• The Very Real Experience That is TELE COLO's Telemark Film 'worthless milk'

  30-12-2025 14:34 via powder.com
  
  In a small co-working and event space, projected on a grubby screen, I’m watching a ski film. And my head snaps to attention with every mention therein of the word telemark. It’s an involuntary reaction, and perhaps a stereotype incarnate. Who hasn’t heard the trope, how do you know someone telemarks? They’ll tell you. With the mere mention of the word, free-heelers everywhere clamor.But as with all things misunderstood about telemark, there’s much more than meets t
  
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• Why Eileen Gu Won't Compete at the Next World Cup Stop

  30-12-2025 14:18 via powder.com
  
  On December 28, 2025, freeskier Eileen Gu announced via Instagram Story that she would not be competing in the upcoming FIS World Cup competition in Calgary, which is slated to take place January 1-3, 2026.
  While Gu hasn't said much more, she did cite that her brief hiatus from the World Cup was in order to "be smart" and to "schedule her contests around the big one in February," referring to the upcoming 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics.Gu had a great start to the season, with a first-place f
  
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• Lindsey Vonn Qualifies for Olympics—Why Her Comeback Is Such a Big Deal

  30-12-2025 14:08 via powder.com
  
  Lindsey Vonn is no stranger to dazzling the world with her talent on skis.
  However, since her return to competitive ski racing last year, following a partial knee replacement, it seems Vonn's wow factor has increased even more. The 2024/25 winter season was only the beginning of Vonn's legendary comeback. When the public told her that returning to competition was dangerous or misguided, Vonn silenced them by taking a podium spot in super-G in Sun Valley, Idaho.Now, Vonn has proved that her parti
  
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• Mikaela Shiffrin Claims Sixth Straight Slalom Win, Calls Out "Not Safe" Course

  29-12-2025 23:18 via powder.com
  
  In Semmering, Austria, American ski racing star Mikaela Shiffrin added to her slalom streak on Sunday, with her fifth consecutive win in the discipline since the World Cup season started. Across two runs, Shiffrin tallied a quicker time than Switzerland’s Camille Rast and Albania’s Lara Colturi. They placed second and third, respectively.  It was, of course, another triumphant moment for Shiffrin, who, last season, seriously injured her oblique muscles and spent part o
  
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• Do You Wear a Ski Helmet? (Poll)

  29-12-2025 21:19 via powder.com
  
  The ski helmet is a bundle of padding, plastic, straps, and buckles. At first glance, you might guess that it’s an unassuming, uncontroversial object. Guess again.On ski helmet use, skiers often have strong opinions. While the majority of skiers wear helmets, a smaller contingent prefers the natural approach, sometimes or always ditching head protection. That can cause potent reactions, at least online. This is their sentiment: why in the world would you eschew something that can protect a
  
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• Telluride Ski Patrol Strike Continues, Resort Closed Indefinitely

  29-12-2025 20:26 via powder.com
  
  The famed Colorado resort Telluride remains closed after its unionized ski patrollers went on strike in pursuit of a new contract with improved wages, marking another dramatic chapter in the wave of union efforts at ski resorts across North America over the past year.The closure began on Saturday, December 27, 2025, at the height of the busy holiday season, as announced by Telluride’s owner, Chuck Horning.“Telluride didn’t make this decision—the strike nor the timing of i
  
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• Christmas Holiday at Titus

  29-12-2025 19:50 via nyskiblog.com
  We left home in Western New York around noon on Friday after a few consecutive days of holiday festivities. With sleet in the forecast locally, we planned to hit the road and make the best of our time off of work. When holiday crowds swell and conditions feel uncertain, Evan and I often find ourselves heading north to Titus Mountain. A place we trust for consistently great snow, zero lift lines, and a refreshingly stress-free ski experience, even during the » Read More »
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• Over 3,000 Skiers Told Us How Much They're Willing To Pay for a Lift Ticket

  29-12-2025 15:17 via powder.com
  
  Lift tickets cost too much, at least that's what over 3,000 skiers told POWDER in last week's Weekly Poll.We asked: How Much Are You Willing To Pay for a Lift Ticket?Check out the results below. Keep reading for more.Poll Results: How Much Are You Willing To Pay for a Lift Ticket?Poll HighlightsTotal Votes: 3,605Number of Votes on Instagram: 1,748votesNumber of Votes on Website: 1,857 votesMost Popular Option: $51-$100 (1,967 votes, 55% of voters)Least Popular Option: $1
  
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