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Free season passes and lift tickets for all youth ages 15 and under. | Photo: Mont du Lac Resort Registration Opens March 21 During Spring Meltdown Event. Mont du Lac Resort, Wisconsin, today announced a major initiative aimed at removing financial barriers to winter sports by offering free season passes and lift tickets for all…

A wet slab avalanche was observed in the southern part of the Bridger Teton Avalanche Center forecast zone. The continuing heat wave could bring more wet slabs to other mountain ranges. | Photo: Bridger Teton Avalanche Center A heat wave has brought summer temperatures to the Rocky Mountains, and the wintry snowpacks are coming unglued.…

Credit: WeatherBell South America has one useful storm cycle from Friday afternoon through early Monday, with the best accumulation focused on the Chilean Andes and Las Leñas before the pattern dries out again. Snow levels stay low enough for mostly snow at the higher Chilean resorts and Las Leñas, while Nevados de Chillán and Corralco…

Chuck Norris sleeps in the snow and wakes up sweating. | Photo: Chuck Norris Instagram We know this doesn’t have a lot to do with skiing and snowboarding, but we love Chuck Norris and we know you do too. The legendary Chuck Norris died at 86 on Thursday, March 19—or perhaps 86 died at Chuck…

Could El Niño cause two bad winters in a row? | Photo: Zach Armstrong The ski industry is currently going through one of the most important parts of the ski season. Nope, it’s not the arrival of endlessly sunny days and predictable slarvy slashing, nor is it the deluge of college students flooding into the…

Revelstoke snow forecast. Credit: WeatherBell This forecast is brought to you by Revelstoke Mountain Resort. Revelstoke, British Columbia, has two modest rounds of snow lined up, with the most reliable stretch running from early Saturday, March 21, through late Thursday, March 26. The first round should freshen the mountain this weekend, a second wave should…

Drunk skier Gabriel Gledhill. | Photo: Instagram Gabriel Gledhill skied 50 kilometers (32 miles) through the Holmenkollen World Cup course last Saturday while downing more than 12 beers and several shots of Jägermeister. He finished 67th out of 75 starters. The following week, he faces deportation from the country he has called home for five…

Conditions at Bear Valley, CA, this week. | Photo: Bear Valley Bear Valley Mountain Resort, California, hosts the 10th Annual Nickolay Dodov Slopestyle and Fundraiser this Saturday, March 21, as the resort works to raise $10,000 for a foundation dedicated to free avalanche education across the state. Related: Bear Valley, CA, Delivers a Once-in-a-Lifetime Weekend…

Credit: WeatherBell The PNW heads from a warm, mostly rainy Friday into a cooler and quieter weekend, then turns back toward a more useful snow setup in the middle of next week. Confidence is strongest from Tuesday morning March 24 through Thursday morning March 26, when falling snow levels should shift the advantage to Whistler…

Credit: WeatherBell Warm, windy weather is still the main story across the Northern Rockies, with only a light weekend refresh before another modest round of mountain snow and stronger wind arrives around Wednesday into Thursday. Confidence is highest from Saturday afternoon through Friday morning: expect a mostly dry pattern for Bogus Basin, Brundage, Tamarack, and…