April Powder Quilts Colorado
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At this enormous mountain, huge investments in snowmaking (including more than $1 million just this season) and impeccable grooming pay off.
Hit the Apex and Horseshoe Chutes (chutes in the Midwest? Ya! You betcha!).
We set our testers loose at Loveland Ski Area for 3 days to test indie skis and document their laps via Instagram. This is what they came back with.
A bare-bones lift network means lines can be long on powder days and weekends, but the place feels empty on the upper mountain. There, explore the expansive upper bowls and chutes.
A new women-owned company offers an alternative to “shrink it and pink it” skis.
Part of Vail Resorts’ Epic Pass, Mt. Brighton is the ideal place to ease off Motor City’s throttle.
A dark chocolate salted caramel stout? Yes please. And we made it happen with Odell Brewing Co. in Fort Collins, Colorado.
Find late season pow, or at least some corn, at these resorts that haven’t closed yet.
Skiing Magazine and Odell Brewing Co. in Fort Collins, CO did a collab beer in honor of the ski season: Send It Stout, a dark chocolate salted caramel stout. Here's how we brewed it.
Odell Brewing Co. and Skiing Magazine pair up to create an end of season Dark Chocolate Salted Caramel Stout.
Our testers get this gear in exchange for a week of work. You can get it just for being awesome.
On sustaining 50 years of business off heli drops and pillow pops.
Scrappy East Coast ski areas breed scrappy skiers, and Waterville Valley churns out some of the best.
How an iconic ski town’s steeps and chimichangas entice skiers.
Salomon Freeski TV: Season 8, Episode 12 - Toyland
Check this gallery for the latest powder and fresh snow shots.
The web series kicked off in memory of Andreas Fransson, with an Icelandic adventure, and now takes you from deep B.C. pow, to Japan, and beyond.
Because you can ski Vail for a week and never repeat a line.
Find your ski pass for next season—and the best deals—here.
Moose steaks, lobster, exploding vans, and more in this excellent mini-documentary about the 1971 World Cup ski races at Maine's Sugarloaf Mountain.
Ortovox voluntary recalls S1+ avalanche transceiver.
After one ass-freezing ride up the awesome, fixed-grip Madonna I chair, you’ll know that for all the Storyland BS, this place has serious steeps.
We were never hardcore skiers. Just a hardcore family.
Killington’s Bear Mountain Mogul Challenge and Sugarloaf’s Reggae Fest dominate the East Coast slopeside party scene.
From Pink Vail to Skiing With Heroes, on-snow charities give extra meaning to a day on the mountain.
Don’t expect Corbet’s, but the closest skiing to New York boasts rapidly improving terrain park.
It’s steep, sustained (enough to host the Olympic downhill in 2002), and never crowded.
It’s like a mini Chamonix, only (a little bit) easier to get to.
The first ever Intertribal Winter Sports Summit brings Native students and elders to Wyoming's Jackson Hole Mountain Resort to learn skiing and snowboarding.
All aboard the Winter Park Express, this skier experiences the reinvigoration of a Colorado ski train.
Crested Butte’s Gothic Mountain Tour schools a newbie in the skimo game.
When pow fell and the craving hit, this skier turned to a local peak.
Mike Douglas, Chris Rubens, and Josh Daiek gain unprecidented access to the sacred volcanoes in New Zealand's Tongariro National Park—the most treasured spot in Maori culture.
Slopeside live music, wacky costumes, and tons of beer? Sign us up for these spring festivals.
Owned by the same family since it opened in 1960, Mont Sutton is known for its glades.
See what it takes to find next year’s best skis for the Gear Guide issue through the Insta-lens. Hint: laps at Snowbird, hot tub debriefs, and a little Fireball.
We know why you haven’t been here yet: because it’s wicked friggin’ hard to get to. But Saddleback is worth the trip.
A margarita on a sunny deck is a ski-town rite of spring. Here’s a list of greats from our highly opinionated testers.
Time to revisit these ski-town lodges, where recent renovations mean things don’t look quite like they used to.
Former ski resort mogul Les Otten offers a peek at his latest project and his big plans for the Dixville Notch resort.
Mt. Hood’s three ski areas are just a short drive from all those hipsters.
Now it has some of the East’s most lavish slopeside amenities. But to those who know it best, it’s still the hill that has no peer.
The Colorado company, which oversees four ski resorts, wades publicly into the same-sex marriage debate.
Copper has shaken off its hot-girl- behind-the-frumpy-glasses image, but people still blow by it to ski Breck or Vail. Their mistake.
The best skiers compete for slopestyle and big-mountain glory.
Get off the groomers and discover this luxury resort’s untapped expert terrain. The best part: You’ll have earned that cookie at the end of the day.
Red Bull Athlete Jon DeVore, who explores untouched peaks with both skis and a parachute, discusses the sport of speedriding and his new documentary The Unrideables.
The only legit party scene in Utah.
To tighten those turns and improve that stance, try SKI Magazine’s NASTAR racing.
America’s toughest backcountry ski race starts at midnight in Crested Butte, Colorado, and charges 40 miles north through the rugged heart of the Rocky Mountains to Aspen. When two desk jockeys, coworkers at this magazine, sign up on competing teams, an epic game of one-upmanship unfolds.
Big White’s position in the Monashee Mountains above desert-like Okanagan Valley serves up lots of sun, relatively mild temperatures, and copious, dry powder.
So far, 2015’s delivered some killer powder shots.
Great skiing mixed with casinos can make for a great quick fix.
Here's the best gear you can't touch yet. Start drooling.
Blown knees are the bane of skiers, but a small Vermont-based binding company claims to have solved the problem.
Compressed air, venturi valves, horse collars, fans, argon, TSA rules, cable pulls. The lingo alone can spin your head, so let us set you straight.
Don’t laugh. There’s some serious skiing at this posh Utah resort.
We asked readers to submit their best face shots, and these are some of the best.
The youngest competitor at the Swatch Skiers Cup is going big.
Every true ski bum has one: That go-to spot that holds snow, even on the most desperate days.
This mountain was made for those who like to hike for big lines in patrol-controlled terrain.
The North American and European competitors will have to wait until at least Wednesday to huck their meat in Switzerland.
Because who doesn't love a good bump session—and ditching I-70 early.
Western State Colorado University’s Alpine Ski Team has been reinstated and is thirsty for glory.
Weather guy Mark Breen is loving this winter as much as the rest of us. And he sees more of the same in the longterm forecast. Sorry about that, Western resorts.
The Stowe Derby began as a bet between two guys. Seventy years later, it’s one of Stowe’s signature winter events.
Colorado's Copper Mountain Resort is poised to win the hearts of a new generation of skiers by giving them what they really want: a kick-ass mountain.
Because you don't want to send a ski torpedoing down the slope getting first tracks without you.
Skiing Winter Lab Bro-tologist Ryan Dionne talks about the Black Diamond JetForce avalanche airbag system, which inflates via a rechargeable battery and a fan.
Skiing Winter Lab Bro-tologist Ryan Dionne talks about the Scott Alpride avalanche airbag system, which uses two small non-reusable gas canisters to deploy the airbag.
Skiing Winter Lab Bro-tologist Ryan Dionne talks about the ABS Vario Base Unit avalanche airbag system, which is designed to zip into other ABS-compatible packs. The system uses nitrogen and a charged handle to inflate the airbag.
Skiing Bro-tologist Ryan Dionne talks about the Backcountry Access Float avalanche airbag system, which is one of the least expensive on the market.
Skiing Winter Lab Bro-tologist Ryan Dionne talks about the Mammut Ride Protection Airbag avalanche airbag system, which is shaped differently than other airbags on the market.
Skiing Winter Lab Bro-tologist Ryan Dionne talks about the different avalanche airbag systems including what's used to inflate the bags, how easily they are to refill after deployment, and more.
James Heim and Alexi Godbout stomp aorund Whistler Blackcomb looking for big air and soft landings.
Steamboat serves up dry pow and sweet trees without any attitude. Go get some.
If storms are settling here, book your ticket, because when it’s on in the Dolomites there is no more beautiful place to ski.
This skier's going from "blah" to "badass." Jo Piazza talks about learning to ski better.