Anders Backe at Fonna before the resort opens on May 1. | Photo Credit: Anders Backe Instagram Fonna Glacier Ski Resort in Norway will open for teams this week from Wednesday, May 1. Mountain operation crews have been busy clearing the ski area’s access roads and grooming runs to be ready for opening on Wednesday. Before giving access to the many alpine and freestyle teams that will descend on the glacier resort for on-snow summer training, pro-skier Anders Backe held an incredible photo session at the glacier resort. Backe is a freeskier who has competed at the X-Games and has appeared in sev ..read more

Blue bird days at Copper Mountain. | Picture: Mikaela Shiffrin Facebook After the season is before the next season for U.S. ski racer Mikaela Shiffrin, who has been kicking off her training for the 24/25 World Cup season with a session at Copper Mountain, Colorado. The 29-year-old ski racer shared a series of photos on her social media channels from the training days in her home state Colorado. The legendary ski racer has spent the majority of the season in Europe for training and competitions but has now returned home. The 29-year-old Vail-native recently got engaged to Norwegian ski racer Al ..read more

Palisades Tahoe is planning to stay open until Memorial Day. | Image: Palisades Tahoe Instagram It’s officially spring! The long, warm days and California sunshine mean one thing to the savvy spring skier: The early bird gets the worm. At Palisades Tahoe, California, this means that operations will be amended from April 29 onwards. Operating hours will be reduced to having lifts spinning at the resort from 8:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. starting on Monday, April 29. Other changes going forward are:  Sunday, April 28 is closing day for Alpine. Alpine is closing so maintenance teams can get through ..read more

The famous Japanese Snow Wall. | Image: InsideJapanTours Instagram The famous Japanese Snow Corridor on the Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route opened on April 15, 2024. The Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route is a breathtakingly beautiful scenic route in Japan that spans from Toyama Prefecture to Nagano Prefecture. It’s a popular tourist destination, especially during spring and early summer, when the height of the Snow Wall along the route is at its peak. The Snow Wall measures 14 meters this year. | Image: 21Moca.Lets_Outdoor Instagram   The route is closed from December to April each year due to th ..read more

Join in on this fantastic funraiser for breast cancer. | Picture: Mammoth Mountain Instagram Boarding for Breast Cancer (B4BC) is excited to finish strong and ride/ski at Mammoth Mountain, California, for the 16th and final stop of the 2024 Love Your Peaks Winter Prevention + Fundraising Series on Sunday, May 5. B4BC’s Love Your Peaks is a fundraising series promoting breast cancer awareness at resorts nationwide, where participants can join the organization at partnering resorts to fundraise, ride/ski and advocate for breast cancer awareness. The nonprofit is looking forward t ..read more

Powder Mountain. | Photo Credit: Powder Mountain Could the semi-private model at Powder Mountain, Utah, be the future for independent ski resorts? The new CEO of Powder Mountain and principal investor, Reed Hastings, certainly believes so. Hastings sees it as a model for keeping large ski areas independent from big corporations such as Vail Resorts. By selling private memberships to half the visitors on the mountain, the running costs and upgrades to the other half for public use will in theory be covered. As one of the co-founders of Netflix, you would assume he knows a thing or two about bus ..read more

Team USA at Copper Mountain, CO, with ski racer River Radamus on the left. | Picture: Curtis DeVore, courtesy of Copper Mountain The Stifel U.S. Ski Team announced exciting changes to its coaching staff for both the men’s and women’s alpine teams. While both Mark Tilston and Paul Kristofic stay in charge of the men’s and women’s team, there has been a shake up in the coaching staff of the men’s and women’s tech teams with some very exciting new hires, especially in the men’s team, which is undergoing a massive restructuring. Former head coach for the women’s teach team, Magnus Andersson, resig ..read more

American Mountain Warfare specialists, who train at the Ethan Allen Firing Range in Jericho, Vermont, arrive in Austria in late February for an international competition among mountain troops called the Edelweiss Raid. Photo Credit: Army Mountain Warfare School Over 65 million skiers hit the mountains last season, making it the highest number of skier visits since records began kept during the 1978/79 season according to the National Ski Areas Association. The mountains are the place skiers and riders visit to get away from all the stresses that life can throw at ..read more

Report from April 23, 2024 Yesterday was one for the record books. Well, maybe just for my record book. 6 fun runs with clients in the Little Las Lenas zone. Again, Evan sniffed out good snow which is impressive because it’s tough to find right now. We did try one run that was too steep with tough snow. The rest of the runs held great recrystallized Alaskan Velvet that skied well. It’s not deep, but it’s smooth and very responsive. You don’t wanna get going too fast, but you can still rip it. We ended the day on Mission Ridge and we all came home very happy. I took off all my gear and stri ..read more

Mammut will supply NPS uniforms. | Image: NPS Mammut, the global leader in mountain safety and outdoor equipment, is proud to announce a collaboration with National Ski Patrol (NSP), one of the largest organizations committed to safety and rescue education for the outdoor industry. This partnership marks a significant step forward in advancing mountain safety for skiers and ski patrollers across the nation and continues to support both Mammut and NSP’s long history of keeping people safe in the outdoors – Mammut since 1862 and NSP since 1938.   Under this new partnership, more than 30,000 ..read more