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Category: Men's Powder Super Wide; Category ranking: No. 7; Average score: 3.33; Balance of skills: 3.5; Best for: Bottomless fluff; Not for: Smooth riding in stiff or wind-affected powder

Category: Men's Powder Super Wide; Category ranking: No. 9; Average score: 3.13; Balance of skills: 3.1; Best for: Power-carving through deep chop; Not for: A laid-back or lazy attack

Category ranking: No. 8 Average score: 3.15 Balance of skills: 2.97 Best for: Huge rooster tails; 1,000 vert in 10 turns Not for: Quickness in bumps or Eastern trees

Category ranking: No. 2 (tie) Average score: 3.55 Balance of skills: 3.54 Best for; Getting more than your share of powder Not for; Tight trees and/or Eastern versatility

Category: Men's Powder Super Wide; Category ranking: No. 6; Average score: 3.39; Balance of skills: 3.37; Best for: Attacking technical lines in deep snow; Not for: New-school, surfy-smeary powder technique

Category ranking: No. 2 Average score: 3.47 Balance of skills: 2.84 Best For: Medium- to long-radius arcs at top speeds Not For: Slalomy quickness

Category: Men's Speed; Category ranking: No. 6; Average score: 3.00; Balance of skills: 3.18; Best for: Relaxed high-speed cruising; Not for: Actually, you know, racing on the thing

Category: Men's Speed; Category ranking: No. 4; Average score: 3.28; Balance of Skills: 3.25 Best for: Making soft groomed your racecourse; Not for: Lazy skidding; it likes to be on edge

Category: Men's Speed; Category ranking: No. 5; Average score: 3.07; Balance of Skills: 2.98; Best For: Gaining new confidence at high speeds; Not For; Soft snow (even by this category’s standards)

Category: Men's Speed; Category ranking: No. 3; Average score: 3.28; Best for: Medium arcs with strong finishes; Not for: Fast speeds on a regular basis

Category ranking: No. 1 Average score: 3.60 Best for: NASTAR gold; looking good on ice Not for: Soft snow, where it trenches too deeply

Category ranking: No. 3 Average score: 3.77 Balance of skills: 3.62 Best For: Smoothing rough terrain; gaining confidence Not For: The quickest of turns in the tightest of spots

Category: Men's Powder Wide; Category ranking: No. 4 Average score: 3.65 Best for: A fluid, quick-footed attack Not for: Wide-open bowls at super G speeds

Category ranking: No. 1 (tie) Average score: 3.78 Best For: Versatility (a great Eastern powder ski) Not For: Smearing, surfing in deepest powder

Category: Men's Powder Wide; Category ranking: No. 8; Average score: 3.21; Balance of skills: 3.2; Best for: Light-touch technique, updating your image; Not for: Technical descents requiring quickness

Category: Men's Powder Wide; Category ranking: No. 9; Average score: 3.19; Balance of skills: 3.28; Best for: Long-turn, high-speed power surfing; Not for: The underweight or underaggressive

Category: Men's Powder Wide; Category ranking: No. 7; Average score: 3.26; Balance of skills: 3.4; Best for: Traditional in-the-fall-line attack; Not for: Hard snow, where its talents are wasted

Category: Men's Powder Wide; Category ranking: No. 6; Average score: 3.34; Balance of skills: 3.2; Best for: Looking good and feeling confident at speed; Not for: Cautious and/or lightweight skiers

Category ranking: No. 5 Average score: 3.35 Balance of skills: 3.38 Best for: Aggressively charging the fall line Not for: Weak or tentative technique

Category ranking: No. 1 (tie) Average score: 3.78 Balance of skills: 3.96 Best for: Athletic skiers who can handle the rebound Not for: Lightweights or the overly cautious

Step 1: Move your family to Switzerland. Step 2. Make sure all your belongings arrive. Step 3. Go skiing. Step 4. Take some photos to show the folks back home what they're missing.

Category ranking: No. 3 (tie) Average score: 3.28 Balance of skills: 3.21 Best For: An improving carver looking for speed Not For: Improving your powder game

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Category: Men's Intermediate; Category ranking: No. 6; Average score: 3.14; Balance of skills: 3.09; Best for: Everyday versatility; an intro to powder; Not for: Learning to trust edges on hard snow

Why is Snowbasin still the best resort in the West that you’ve never skied?

Category: Men's Intermediate; Category ranking: No. 5; Average score: 3.27; Balance of skills: 3.27; Best For: Finally breaking through to carved turns; Not For: Careless, laid-back or inattentive technique

Category: Men's Intermediate; Category ranking: No. 2; Average score 3.32; Balance of skills: 3.29; Best for: Aggressive mornings, relaxed afternoons; Not for: Learning to carve on hard snow

Category ranking: No. 1 Average score: 3.83 Best for: Instilling confidence at higher speeds Not for: Continuing to skid—a waste of its talent

Category: Men's Intermediate; Category ranking: No. 3 (tie); Average score 3.28; Balance of skills: 3.26; Best for: Getting comfortable arcing at higher speeds; Not for: Learning to link quick turns on steeps

Category ranking: No. 1 Average score: 3.49 Balance of skills: 3.18 Best For: Taming crud, carving trenches on softpack Not For: Surfing and smearing in powder; tight bumps

Category: Men's Freeride; Category ranking: No. 6; Average score: 3.11; Balance of skills: 2.9; Best For: Energetic, quick turns in crud and powder; Not For: Versatility on hard snow, where it washes out

Category: Men's Freeride; Category ranking: No. 5; Average score: 3.20; Balance of skills: 3.08; Best for: Finesseful technique (“touch” skiers); Not for: GSing through junky snow

Category: Men's Freeride; Category ranking: No. 4; Average score: 3.25; Balance of skills: 3.30; Best for: Supreme hard-snow/soft-snow versatility; Not for: Short-turn specialists

A young architect merges styles in his Vermont home.

Category: Men's Freeride; Category ranking: No. 2; Average score: 3.45; Balance of skills: 3.42; Best for: Hard-snow/soft-snow versatility; Not for: Skidded turns—a total waste of its talents

Category ranking: No. 3 Average score: 3.32 Balance of skills: 3.19 Best for: Smoothing out soft chop at GS speeds Not for: Bumps, or any kind of technical hard-snow line

Can it be done? Is it stupid? The answers, respectively are maybe and yes. But a group attempted to do this for the first time last winter. Here's what happened.

An insider’s guide to how we test

Skiing’s new columnist Tim Neville uprooted himself and his pregnant wife from their home in Bend, Oregon, and moved to Switzerland to ski. He gives us his story in six installments. Here is his first.

At Woodward at Copper, Colorado’s new indoor park training facility, you can learn Rodeo 5s, backflips, and more, into the comfort of a foam pit.

You can get skis made just for you. Tailor the dimensions, graphics, and construction for what best suits you. One company—Colorado's Folsom Custom—shows you how.

Not just any beer will do, though. Listen to the experts on what kind of keg to get this fall.

Why do we put bubbly on a pedestal? If it weren't for the upper crust or Jay-Z, we'd all be drinking it daily.

Enjoy these five drinks from five ski town bars. Bring Advil.

A tree hugger squares off with an eco-realist.

How to ditch the fur coats at Aspen.

To hell with the internet; a ski resort is the best place to reinvent yourself.

Apparently, a trip to Alaska isn't all sunshine, lollipops, and heli drops. Elyse Saugstad and a new movie explain.

Or why PBRs in the parking lot are the soul of skiing.

Ty Dayberry talks about the old days (circa 1998) when he telemarked in women’s leather boots on skinny skis. Now 21, he throws down double back flips and 1080s in slopestyle contests. We caught up with Ty to find out why, exactly, anyone would want to telemark in a halfpipe.

You need poles. Here are seven good options.

...not that you needed any. Check out Skiing Magazine's favorite hotspots and what to order when you get there.

The liquor laws just changed in Utah. Just last year, here's what you had to go through in order to get a stiff drink in the land of Brigham Young.

In Skiing magazine’s February 2009 issue, we ran a letter from Jen Winslow from Maine, who asked for our help finding her a guy who cares about skiing as much as she does. So we sent out a call for help, asking guys to write in and tell us why they deserved a ski date with Jen. Sugarloaf was willing to donate some lift tickets and an apres-ski bar tab for the occasion. Dozens of eligible bachelors from all over the country wrote in, hoping for their chance at romance. The lucky guy? Wes Berkshire, from Colorado, who flew across the country to meet Jen. Here’s Wes' story.

When Skiing magazine set two readers up on a blind ski date, the potential for disaster was high. Luckily, a shot ski and a first-run yard sale helped break the ice. Here is Jen's response to the weekend she spent with Wes at Sugarloaf, Maine.

The TELUS World Ski and Snowboard Festival offers no shortage of action – music, arts, sports. Barbie, you’re over. Here’s a list of ten spunky women to catch up with in Whistler all of whom deserve an action figure of their own.

National Ski Areas Association (NSAA) announced the winners of the 2008/09 Marketing and Guest Service Awards.

HIGH-DEF VIDEO FOR YOUR HEAD… from a Video Camera Small Enough to Fit on Your Goggles

As the snow melts, resorts everywhere are celebrating the end of the season with the time-tested tradition of pond skimming. Enjoy these hilarious photos of the costumed, intoxicated antics of spring.

What happens when six female telemarkers pile into an RV and set out to ski some big, Alaskan peaks? First, they stuff the mobile home with a dozen skis, a hair dryer, cowboy boots, trashy magazines, ice axes, and whiskey. Then they bring a boy along to drive and fill up the propane tank. And finally, they ski some big peaks.

MacLean Magazine gave Whistler Blackcomb accolades for employee engagement, Fitzsimmons Creek renewable power project, community stewardship, and reducing waste and energy consumption .

Lindsey Vonn has been nominated as World Sportswoman of the Year for the prestigious Laureus World Sports Awards.

You may not get new skis every year, but you probably have some old junkers clogging up the garage. Check out the best ways to recycle all your old gear, including boots, poles, and everything else that’s probably too scary to ski on now.

Mother Earth poured on more powder this week to resorts deserving a snowy reward for their environmental efforts. Still skiing? Good for you.

From the creation of sustainable jobs to on-slope solar panels and wind turbines, the ski industry is stepping up to the plate when it comes to environmental concerns. Here are the greenest resorts in the biz, and what they’re doing to combat global warming.

Holiday activities include the Golden Bunny Classic Candy Hunt and Fun Race

Warm Glow from Firepits at Vail Cascade Ignites Romance with the Light My Fire Package

Join 101.5 FM Truckee Independent Radio for Meet Your Mountain 50/60 Day and Pool Party and get acquainted with Tahoe’s top-ranked resort with $20 lift tickets

Loveland is offering discount lift tickets for the remainder of the season to anyone that presents a 2008-2009 season pass from another ski area.

Vail Resorts Reports Certain Ski Season Metrics for the Season To Date through April 12, 2009

Ski Industry Relatively Resilient in Down Economy

The Patagonia Wild and Scenic Environmental Film Festival kicks off the North Lake Tahoe Truckee Earth Day Celebration this Friday and Saturday, April 17-18, 2009.

Advanced reservations continue to lag

The Governor of New York State has proposed a budget which contains a sales tax on lift tickets and lessons. NY Ski Areas are trying to stop it.

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TWSSF TO FEATURE MORE THAN 45 MUSICAL ACTS over ten days and nights of non-stop FREE concerts (and ONE silent disco)

Small snow and big development didn't quite add up to a stellar season for the new, huge resort. Next year has huge promises.

It's About Nothing

Company also announced that helmets will be required for all children’s group ski and ride lessons and as part of their rental packages

TIM DUTTON AND REBECCA SELIG TAKE THE LEAD IN DAY 1 OF THE SUBARU FREESKIING WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS AT ALYESKA RESORT, ALASKA