POWDER Magazine

Some people wondered if it was real. A speck—a skier, actually, if you look closely—is framed against a cascading wave of sluff so thick that it could be whitewater. His landing is, well, somewhere? So is his takeoff. But you’d need some imagination to decide where those points in space are against the ominous backdrop of sheer rock and flying snow. Immortalized in a glossy 1...

A little slice of decades-old ski history, built before many of America’s best-known resorts, isn’t rotting or crumbling away. Well, it was—until Middlebury Snowbowl, the ski area owned by Vermont’s Middlebury College, decided to pick it up and move it. 

The cabin, named after an early race coach at Middlebury, Richard Hubbard, was loaded onto an extra-wide trailer b...

The ski and outdoor industry create a lot of plastic. In fact, nearly everything we bring skiing has some sort of plastic component: boots, skis, ski wax, backpacks, apparel, you name it. A few years ago, Gore-Tex and a few other materials brands stopped using PFAS-heavy...

The back half of New Zealand’s ski season is proving to be a mixed bag.

While Cardrona recently announced plans to extend winter after ample late-season snowfall, Mt. Cheeseman ski area is closing down following a stretch of mild weather and rain....

A few years ago, National Geographic set out to document Jim Morrison and Hilaree Nelson’s ambitious plan to climb and ski Mt. Everest’s foreboding direct North Face. But during the production, tragedy struck the climbing and life partners when Nelson was killed in a 2022 avalanche on the flanks of the Himalayan peak, Manaslu.

Morrison decided to honor their...