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There’s nothing quite like skiing deep powder. | Photo: Ski Utah Few destinations in the ski industry have built at the pace or the scale that Utah ski resorts have these past two winters. With the 2034 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games drawing closer, the spotlight remains fixed on the state’s unmatched mountain access, its…

Serpentines along Beartooth Highway. | Photo: Visit Yellowstone Website Beartooth Pass, which spans the Wyoming-Montana border about 30 miles east of Yellowstone National Park, is set to close Friday, October 9, at 2:30 p.m. The pass, home to North America’s sole summer-only ski area, was initially scheduled to close four days later, on October 13.…

The Italian team will. Be without its biggest stars: Federica Brignone (left) and Sofia Goggia (right). | Image: FIS Alpine Two of Italy’s biggest stars will be missing when the 2026-27 Alpine Ski World Cup begins in Sölden, Austria, later this month. Federica Brignone and Sofia Goggia are both not well enough to compete at…

Crans-Montana will host the 2027 World Championships. | Image: Swiss Ski Website Claude-Alain Schmidhalter, vice president of Swiss-Ski and president of the organizing committee for the 2027 FIS Alpine World Ski Championships in Crans-Montana, has resigned from both positions after being temporarily removed from office amid criminal proceedings related to his business activities. The 62-year-old…

Revelstoke is home to some of the best powder in British Columbia. | Credit: Revelstoke Resort Mark your calendars, Canadian skiers.  British Columbia’s Revelstoke Mountain Resort officially announced its opening date, set for December 5, 2026, conditions permitting. While the resort is yet to receive its first flakes of the season, cold-weather shifts are beginning to…

Shaurya “Shaz” Thakur scouts for lines to snowboard in Baralacha La, India, in between competitive snowboard training regiments. | Photo: Shaurya Thakur In the wet, bone-chilling wind of southern Chile, on the snowfields of the Lonquimay Volcano at Corralco Resort, Shaurya Thakur greeted me with a wide, genuine smile as we hopped on the chairlift…

Rob Katz returned as CEO of Vail Resorts after a three-year hiatus. | Photo: Vail Resorts A new Vail Resorts shareholder lawsuit accuses the company’s board of letting an alleged ski pass price-fixing scheme run unchecked. Thomas Stewart filed the complaint October 5 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado (Case No.…

El Niño Winter forecast for the 2026-27 ski season. | Image: AccuWeather AccuWeather‘s El Niño snow forecast calls for an early start to the snow season across the Sierra Nevada, Great Basin, and central and southern Rockies in 2026-27. A potentially record-setting El Niño is expected to shape the winter, and the outlook points to…

Miles Clark in Bariloche, Argentina, in 2019. | Photo: SnowBrains Over the past couple of months, I’ve been really excited about SnowBrains Trips. We were going to host trips to really unique destinations around the world, and after doing the survey with you, good people, it turns out the most popular spots were Revelstoke, the…

The Copper Peak Ski Jump in Ironwood, Michigan, will be renovated to host international competitions. | Credit: Visit Ironwood Facebook It’s the dawn of a new era at the Copper Peak ski jump in Ironwood, Michigan.  Since 1994, thousands of visitors have used the Copper Peak ski jump in Ironwood, Michigan, to get a bird’s-eye…