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Opening day 2023 at Palisades Tahoe. | Photo: Kate Abraham, Palisades Tahoe We finally made it! It’s been over 100 days since the last U.S. ski resort shut its doors for the 2025-26 season, and in many regions of the country, lift-served skiing and riding hasn’t been available for nearly half a year. But in…

Taking over The Cliff Lodge at Snowbird, the Red Bull Legends Inn brings together 19 of the top duos to compete in an Apex Legends duo competition for a grand prize of $25,000. | Image: Red Bull Returning for its third year, Red Bull Legends Inn, the Apex Legends duos competition, will touch down for…

British Columbia’s Whitewater Mountain Resort recently announced the addition of 190 acres of inbounds terrain. | Credit: Liam Abbott/SnowBrains British Columbia’s Whitewater Mountain Resort recently announced the addition of 190 acres of new inbounds terrain, giving Whitewater’s skiers more to explore when the season officially kicks off. The resort had worked extensively this summer to…

Marco Odermatt on course on Birds of Prey. | Image: FIS Alpine Marco Odermatt is currently the most dominant all-around ski racer on the World Cup circuit. Competing across three disciplines and consistently podiuming in all three has gained him the overall season title for the last five seasons. Not only that, Odermatt was leading…

Tactics Boardshop in Bend, Oregon, has closed after 10 years. | Credit: Tactics It’s been a difficult week for snowboarders in Bend, Oregon. On September 27, the beloved Tactics Board Shop in downtown Bend permanently closed its doors. For 10 years, Tactics provided Bend’s skaters and snowboarders with equipment, apparel, and a place to meet friends…

French resort Morzine participates in the initiative. | Image: Morzine France’s ski industry is building an increasingly sophisticated network of cooperation between resorts, with some of the country’s biggest ski areas now sharing staff, spare parts, technical expertise and business strategies with smaller mountain resorts. The initiative, led by Domaines Skiables de France (DSF), the…

Everest Base Camp on the Nepal side is being ruined by urine. | Photo: Holidify A new study has put a number on something Everest climbers rarely talk about: the heat from their urine. The research, co-authored by Nepal’s Chief Survey Officer Khim Lal Gautam and published in Regional Environmental Change in July, estimates that…

Grand Targhee, WY, in 2015. Photo: Grand Targhee With the arrival of October, we’ve reached the purgatory stage of the “waiting for winter” season. It’s not quite summer. It’s not even autumn for most people yet. The days go by. We relentlessly fret about this year’s El Niño. We try to live in the present…

Switzerland’s glaciers are nearing a record-breaking melt season, though they have not yet surpassed 2022. | Photo: Outside Online Switzerland’s glaciers have accelerated their retreat in the most recent data from September 21, 2026, according to the latest figures from the Glacier Monitoring Switzerland network, or GLAMOS. It appears that only 2022 was a worse…

Stowe Mountain Resort, Vermont, has officially tested its snow guns. | Credit: Stowe Mountain Resort Facebook It’s nearly that time at Vermont’s Stowe Mountain Resort.  To go along with the arrival of the fall colors, crews at Stowe have officially begun testing snow guns across the resort. With fall in full swing, winter is officially…