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As the athletes from around the world are competing at the Cortina Milano Winter Olympics in Italy, 250 athletes from across Pennsylvania competed at the Special Olympics of Pennsylvania (SOPA) at Seven Springs Mountain Resort on February 10 through 12. Athletes competed in alpine skiing, snowboarding, and snowshoeing at race courses spread across the slopes…

The Slalom podium at the 2026 Olympics: Loic Meillard (gold), Fabio Gstrein (silver), Henrik Kristoffersen (bronze). | Image: FIS Alpine Heartbreak defined the men’s Olympic slalom in Bormio today, where more than half the field failed to finish and Norway’s Atle Lie McGrath saw his gold-medal dream vanish in a single straddled gate on run…

Water content within snowpack is below average across the entire West. | Photo Credit: drought.gov This winter has been historic in all the wrong ways for the West. October gave us hope with cold temperatures and early snowfall, but then it warmed up and dried out in November. December threw much of the region into…

Canadian snowboarder Juliette ‘Jubes’ Pelchat qualified for the final after finishing in twelfth place in qualifying. | Credit: Canada Snowboard Women’s snowboard slopestyle wrapped up early Sunday morning, February 15, in Livigno, Italy, with 30 riders fighting for a spot in the finals at the 2026 Milano Cortina Olympics. The top 12 finishers from the…

Eileen Gu celebrates after scoring a 75.30 and qualifying for her second Olympic slopestyle finals. | Credit: China Daily Facebook Eileen Gu has qualified for the Big Air finals but the qualification came with an unexpected cost. The Big Air finals at the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics are clashing with halfpipe training,  forcing Gu…

Report from Friday the 13th of February, 2026 Sainte-Foy Tarentaise is a small ski resort. At least by European standards. It’s only about 2,500 acres, roughly the same size as Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Our new French friend Eric told us we had to go to Sainte-Foy. Fresh tracks. Image: SnowBrains So we did. What we…

Two snowboarders died in an avalanche at the Stubaier Glacier. | Image: Zoom.Tirol Two 37-year-old Austrian snowboarders were killed by an avalanche on Sunday, February 15, in the freeride area of the Stubai Glacier in Tyrol, Austria. The tragedy unfolded near Neustift in the Stubai Valley, where a large-scale search operation was launched Sunday evening…

An avalanche hit Rotloiwigalerie in Goppenstein on Thursday, February 12. | Image: Kantonspolizei Waillis An avalanche near Goppenstein in southern Switzerland derailed a regional passenger train on Monday, February 16, marking the second avalanche at Goppenstein in five days, after an avalanche hit a road tunnel on February 12, which cut off the Lötschental from…

A moody morning commute to Silverton, Colorado, for their 17th Annual Skijoring Event. Photo Credit: JT Pulfer II President’s Day Weekend delivered much-needed snow to eager thrill seekers in Silverton, Colorado. My commute was outstanding, as per usual for the infamous Red Mountain Pass. Amazingly, the preceding day, nearly a foot of snow fell on…

Much of the La Fouly village is under evacuation orders. | Image: La Fouly FB The cantonal police of Wallis/Valais has issued an evacuation order for multiple neighborhoods in the mountain village La Fouly in the Swiss canton of Wallis/Valais following heavy snowfall, strong winds, and additional precipitation forecast in the coming hours. Related: Entire…