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Skiers triggered an early-season slide as the resort's KT-22 terrain opened for the season this morning.

Veteran racers Jared Goldberg and Steven Nyman offer insights on the winning formulas for the Hahnenkamm and Lauberhorn courses.

Gleich is bringing her passion for the environment and dedication to overcoming big challenges to the forefront of her campaign.

Almost halfway into the season, Shiffrin sits at 93 World Cup wins. But she trained no super-G last summer, and a bad cold has interrupted her dominance of the mid-season tech races.

A mechanical malfunction discovered earlier this week has taken the gondola out of the commission until it can be fixed.

According to reports, the man was caught after loading the Silver Queen Gondola without a lift ticket.

The resort is seeking damages (to their cool points status, I assume?) and asking that the brand “destroy” any garments featured in the photo shoot.

SIRO is partnering with Ramla Ali and Jonah Kest to develop a world-class wellness experience

The past year was an exceptional one for the ski industry, from record snowfall to privatizations. These were our top news stories.

It’s Candide’s world, we’re just living in it.

Five-plus inches of rain wreaked havoc at resorts just opening for the season.

The tradition has been running for 20 years and is one of the more bizarre gatherings of bearded skiers worldwide.

Powder Mountain will move to a model of real estate tied to private skiing as well as public access for 2024-'25.

A community ski hill in northern California is under fire after sharing plans to erect a 20-foot-tall statue of the Virgin Mary.

The Snowbasin snow stake went viral last week with this Zen-like storm timelapse, and for good reason.

Northern Colorado’s Hoedown Hill aims to provide an accessible place for new skiers to learn the sport.

It's a weird and wonderful week for skiers!

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Mikaela Shiffrin leads the list of favorites in two giant slalom races at the Canadian resort. Here’s what she likes about racing on new terrain

After one false start, the World Cup speed season gets underway at Beaver Creek. Will Aleksander Aamodt Kilde win again?

Even after an injury setback in early November, Mikaela Shiffrin is in a better place than she was a year ago. Could this season be even better than last?

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ICYMI: A roundup of all of the wacky and weird news from the ski universe.

Your front-row seat to the slopes, terrain parks, and halfpipes await, and it's all on Outside Watch!

The Gran Becca starts in Switzerland, ends in Italy, and could be a good course for the American Downhillers.

Shiffrin has won more World Cup races than any skier in history. But there are still more records for her to reset. 

On December 9, the resort will offer $25 lift tickets to all visitors but hope to top the 102 jeaned skiers that hit the slopes on a single day in New Zealand over the summer.

Illness in September may have set Shiffrin back, but “this is an OK place to start; Paula Moltzan continued to show her potential; and high winds canceled the men’s race.

Arapahoe Basin will start spinning a lift on Sunday, Oct. 29, marking the official start of the 2023-’24 ski season.

Harnessing The Shining, this short will surely get a giggle, or at least a nod of approval, from frothers everywhere.

The wait is over, the first ski area in North America has opened for the season.

The French steep skiing icon died while descending Puntiagado Volcano in Chile with Chilean IFMGA Guide Juan Seńoret.

Vivian Bruchez, Aurelien Lardy, and Jules Socie successfully skied the death-defying Whillans-Cochrane route on September 21, marking the second descent of the harrowing hanging snowfield in its history.

Beloved and historic Black Mountain will keep its lifts running this season while new owners are sought.

According to a local newspaper report, Henry and Chilean IFMGA mountain guide Juan Senoret were attempting to ski from the summit of the Putiagudo Volcano in the Los Lagos region.

The hardships faced by N.H.'s Black Mountain are shared by many small ski areas today.

The Ikon Pass parent company announced plans to acquire B.C.-based Mike Wiegele Helicopter Skiing by the end of the year.

The collective of independent ski area will now number 170, offering two days at each and 25 percent off a third day.

The new head honchos are only the second ownership group in Silverton’s history, taking over for the Brill family that started the mountain in 2001.

The long-dreaded I-70 construction has begun and is slated to continue through the winter.

All the ski news you might have missed, plus Big Sky tram construction videos you need to see to believe.

The top nonprofits win a customized Land Rover Defender 130 and a pile of cash. Cast your vote starting on September 15 to help choose this year’s winners.

The measure has yet to be fully approved, but options the idea of blasting rock away from the base of Chute 1 and the top of Chute 3 while taking out trees to create a new chute entirely.

The resort is offering passes that get skiers on the lift 30 minutes before the masses, and popular opinion is, well, opinionated.

These small Finnish resorts are both getting ready to spin lifts on October 6 with real natural snow.

From Winter Park to Telluride, ski lift incidents seem to keep making national headlines, and you may find yourself wondering, is it safe to ride?

Lock in your Epic, Ikon, or Mountain Collective pass before prices go up over the next several weeks.

We finally know who will build and manage the new acreage and whether or not snowboarding will be allowed.

Alterra Mountain Company buys Idaho’s Schweitzer Mountain Resort, and announces unlimited access on the 2023-'24 Ikon Pass.

The Chilean resort is still getting clobbered by snow, but totals from its latest storm are over eight feet of the good stuff.

This is the third time in seven years that there’s been a similar lift incident at the ski area.

I know you thought your Arc’teryx x Patagonia was pretty exclusive, but you just got one-upped, Troy.

But the three major forecasters for winter 2023-’24 all have different things to say about where the snow might fall.

A new $200 million luxury development at the base of Aspen Mountain means the locals who called the Skiers Chalet home are finally getting kicked out.

Canada’s Kicking Horse Resort is home to a large, enclosed grizzly habitat in the summertime and likes to keep its resident beast, a big guy named Boo, fed and happy.

What do winners of the Defender Service Awards have in common? They make the world a better place, and now Land Rover is helping them do it.

The longtime owners, the Kemmerer family, will pass the buck to a pair of passionate local skiers and their families.

Billionaires are people just like us, don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.

The new closing date marks only the third time in the resort's history that the ski area has stayed open into August.

Utah’s Department of Transportation released renderings of the finished product, and people are surprised.

Yep, the script reads right, the Lover’s State is having an off-season affair with the alpine, bringing its gas to the grass.

After years of controversy, UDOT approved the Little Cottonwood Canyon gondola. But it’s not over yet.

Ludlow and Londonderry, and their respective ski areas, are in jeopardy after nearly 10 inches of rain pummeled the state.

Bluebird Backcountry was a special community and will be sorely missed.

Over 200 Lake Louise seasonal employees are homeless after a massive fire leveled their staff quarters this past Monday.

The brutal backup marred the Southern Hemisphere’s skiing comeback story and proved that no one is safe from lift line lunacy.

James Crown was the patriarch of the family that bought the resort in 1985 and formed Alterra Mountain Company in 2018.

Greenpeace’s delegation challenged FIS’ underestimation of carbon dioxide off-put by ski race spectators.

The resort wants to build out its Snow Park base, adding lodging, dining, underground parking, and a transit hub. Oh, and a new gondola.

Winners of the Defender Service Awards save bears, train service dogs, feed people in need, and more. Meet last year’s honorees—and learn how to enter the 2023 contest now!

It looks like lift-serviced summer skiing may be off the table in Big Sky Country. Big, honking bummer.

Ironically, stronger, wetter, and warmer storms will shrink the snowline at many of the state’s most popular ski areas.

Christian Helger, 29, was killed when a tree fell on a lift line after heavy snowfall 

The new wearable 3D camera might as well have been cut straight from a 1990s Oakley catalog.

It's closing day at Killington, and all ticket sales go to benefit a local LGBTQ+ foundation to mark the start of Pride month.

Every skier secretly wants to be a surfer, but can anyone rip a wake as hard as the former Queen of Alpine?

From NOAA to the Farmer’s Almanac, there was a lot of hype around where the snow would fall. Here’s who got the closest.

If glaciers aren’t in your near future, this might be the ticket to keeping your season spinning.

Locals are fighting a plan to turn Homewood into a semi-private resort, limiting community access to the slopes.