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• Lindsey Vonn Claims 6th and 4th as Impressive Comeback Continues

  13-01-2025 22:28 via powder.com
  
  The naysayers may have just been silenced.During a pair of World Cup races in St. Anton, Austria, Lindsey Vonn—during her return to ski racing after a multi-year hiatus—claimed 6th place and 4th place.
   Vonn earned the 6th place finish during Saturday's downhill race. Downhill is her preferred discipline—she holds a record 43 wins in the event."That was fun," Vonn told broadcaster Eurosport after the race. "I still made a couple of mistakes, I know I can be faster.Lindsey
  
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• Weather Window Adjusted for First FWT Competition of Season

  13-01-2025 21:59 via powder.com
  
  The Freeride World Tour (FWT) has added two additional dates to the weather window of its Baqueira-Beret, Spain, competition, which, according to the organization, will “ensure optimal conditions before a forecasted heatwave.” The competition is the first of the 2025 FWT season.The two additional dates—January 16th and 17th—are ahead of the original weather window scheduled between January 18th and January 23rd. Now, the competitors could drop in between the 16th and the
  
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• 10 Ski Stereotypes You'll Encounter at Every Resort

  13-01-2025 21:54 via powder.com
  
  Try as we might, we skiers can’t help but exist within one of a few genres that, realistically, embody something resembling the dreaded “S” word. Backcountry skier and frontside skier are a few of the obvious ones, but the list of prospective skiing stereotypes is larger than the usual, broad categories targeted to market gear. This is our list. Ever wondered if you fit into a skiing stereotype? Keep reading to find out. This park skier opted for a bright kit, but dar
  
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• Alabama Skiers Celebrate First Open Slope in "Years"

  13-01-2025 21:30 via powder.com
  
  Our friends in the Southeast are getting a taste of Old Man Winter, and some rare time on the slopes. Over this past weekend, Alabama's only ski area, Cloudmont, opened fully for the first time in five years. Following a winter storm warning for the area, the ski area received 1-2" of snow, and with a little help from man-made snowmaking efforts, it proved just barely enough to cover the area's modest slopes. Cloudmont opened for a half day of skiing at 1 p.m. on Saturday, Ja
  
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• Large Moose Startles Unsuspecting Colorado Skiers

  13-01-2025 20:01 via powder.com
  
  Tourists, powder hounds, and—wait for it—one large moose. This was the crowd that actress Alicia Leigh Willis Foust encountered during a recent trip to Steamboat Springs, Colorado.Foust caught the moose on video as it trudged through Steamboat’s base area. Tap or press play on the embedded video to watch.View this post on InstagramA post shared by Alicia Leigh Willis Foust (@alicialeighwillis)
  According to a blog post from Steamboat, moose sightings aren’t uncommon a
  
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• Multiple Skiers Killed in Avalanche

  13-01-2025 19:52 via powder.com
  
  Five skiers were caught in an avalanche in Italy's Piedmont region on Sunday, January 12, 2025. Three of the skiers were fully buried and did not survive the slide.The avalanche occurred just after noon on an eastern ridge of Punta Valgrande, a peak on the border between Italy and Switzerland in the Lepontine Alps. The skiers were ascending the peak via crampons when the face above them broke and carried three of the party around 400 meters downhill. Two witnesses alerted Piedmont Alpi
  
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• The 7 Most Popular Ski Resorts in the U.S.

  13-01-2025 19:10 via powder.com
  
  Certain ski resorts seem to appear on every 'best of' list, but do the hard numbers actually match the reputation? Well, it's pretty hard to say, at least in the U.S.
  A lot of ski areas keep their exact skier visits per year under wraps for a bunch of different reasons. Luckily, there are several different organizations that will report on total skier visits per state or region. So, using estimates and rough numbers, this is what we dug up as far as the most popular resorts in the U.S. based on
  
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• Ski Patrollers Unionize at Popular Colorado Ski Area

  13-01-2025 17:16 via powder.com
  
  The ski patrollers of Colorado's Arapahoe Basin Ski Area have voted to unionize, according to a social media post on Sunday, January 12, 2025."We will officially become a part of the CWA 7781 United Mountain Workers," writes a representative of The Arapahoe Basin Ski Patrol Union (ABSP). "This pushed everyone mentally and physically but in the end we have come together and decided to unionize."Local organizer Ryan Dineen told Denver7 that the vote to unionize passed 30-22, but that results still
  
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• The 2025 K2 Anthem BOA 125 W Is Among The Stiffest Women's Ski Boots

  13-01-2025 17:00 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.In the Fall of 2023, K2 joined the handful of brands introducing BOA® technology into alpine ski boots. Building off of their original lineup of women’s Anthem boots, the K2 Anthem BOA 125W was released in Fall 2024 and is one of the stiffest and most aggressive women’s freeride boots that K2 has released to date. Featuring the BOA® Fit System, a BOA-
  
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