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Freeride World Tour Skier Lily Bradley Trains by Going to Punk Shows
Lily Bradley is a serious contender for a future Freeride World Tour title. But no summer looks the same for her. We delve into how she trains during the off-season, what her physical and mental prep for skiing looks like, and how she chooses her temporary living locations each season.
Australian Ski Resorts Preparing for Snow 'Dump of the Season'
The land down unda' is known for kangaroos, crocs, and beaches, but a detour to Australia's southern reaches presents mountains, snow, and ski resorts. Mt. Hotham, one of the country's largest resorts, is celebrating this weekend as natural snowfall has finally arrived. The resort has ...
Mikaela Shiffrin Named to ESPN's Top 100 Athletes of 21st Century List
What do sports media companies talk about during the doldrums of summer when most major American sports are in their off seasons? They create controversial lists, of course. ESPN recently released a list of the Top 100 Athletes since 2000, as voted on by their global contributors. Different ...
Drew Petersen's New Film About Running, Skiing, And Mental Health, "Feel It All," Releases August 17th
After a successful Kickstarter campaign, professional skier Drew Petersen's new film, Feel It All, is off to the races. The film drops for free online on August 17th, the same day that Petersen will run Colorado's Leadville 100 Trail Run (more precisely, it will release the moment the race's start ...
Where's our Ski Train?
One of my old friends holds Swiss citizenship. He's a skier and spent many of his visits to Switzerland—some of which involved compulsory military service—hitting the slopes. While he regularly drove to the mountains, his stories involving passenger rails stood out. Instead of sitting in car ...
How La Niña Could Affect Winter '24/'25
La Niña, El Niño, La Nada... the use of Spanish words to describe shifting surface temperatures in the Pacific Ocean can be confusing, but fear not, POWDER is here to help you make sense of it heading into Winter '24/'25. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has ...
10 Surprising Colleges with Ski Resorts Nearby
It's an oft-asked and Googled question: I'm a skier. Where should I go to college? The list of answers is well-established at this point, but skiing's bigger than the Northeast and the Mountain West. Surprising states like Arizona, Nevada, Michigan, and West Virginia have skiing and ...
Introducing POWDER News, a New Era of The Skier's Magazine
For lack of a better term, the world is a bit crazy at the moment. Presidential candidates are dodging assassination attempts, everything costs more than it should, and death toll statistics from wars across the globe cast a dark shadow over our lives. There are plenty of things we can ...
Mt. Baldy Spared from Vista Fire
Firefighters have prevented the still-raging Vista Fire from reaching Mt. Baldy Resort, California, by creating a line between the fire and unburned fuel, such as brush or trees, within the ski area. "Because that area itself has been hiked so much—that Backbone Trail—there was already a good line ...
Breckenridge's July 4th Skiing Celebration Perseveres Despite New Challenges
In 2023, Josh Barilar got a call from the Forest Service, who'd caught wind of a grassroots summer ski party being held just above Breckenridge Resort, Colorado, every Fourth of July. The event—called the Peak 10 Classic—was started by Barilar in 2018 by piggybacking off a pre-existing tradition. ...
RIP Sylvain Saudan: The Skier of the Impossible
Legendary Swiss extreme skiing pioneer Sylvain Saudan has passed away. Le Matin, a Swiss newspaper, reports that he died from a heart attack at 87 years old. “As a pioneer, he helped us develop the brand’s first bindings in the 70s, sharing his contagious passion for skiing with us,” wrote Salomon ...
Editor's Picks #3: Top Ski News From Last Week
The 4th of July has come and gone, and the guilty consciousness of skiers are starting to activate. The ski season seems far away, but as the sun sets earlier each day, a ubiquitous phrase from Game of Throne's Stark family is being uttered from coast to coast- Winter is coming. In order to keep ...
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