The article offers beginner tips for safe backcountry skiing, emphasizing avalanche awareness and education. Essential skills: master resort skiing, get avalanche training, and learn to use safety ...

If I had to do it over again, instead of flying from Salt Lake City to Kelowna via Vancouver, I would book a direct flight from Salt Lake City to Calgary. It would have cut my travel time by a wide ...

Sometimes, even proficient powder skiers have trouble when the snow piles up higher than 10-12 inches, or when it is heavier than Vail’s typical champagne fluff.This is partly due to equipment. Those ...

As skiers, we pretty much live for powder days. There's truly nothing like the sensation of skiing powder, and few things in the world are as magical. In fact, we love it so much that Dave and Jake ...

The staff reflects on the movies they can’t forget as the ski season gets underway. Welcome to 2026. In the spirit of the New ...

Powder aims to feature only the best products and services. If you buy something via one of our links, we may earn a commission. It’s in our name, literally. Powder skiing is objectively the best form ...

For decades, heli-skiing or heli-boarding have been the Holy Grail for experts in the sports, the ultimate luxury experience (both sports will be combined and collectively called heli-skiing from now ...

More than any other piece of gear, ski boots are something that needs to fit you. Choose your boots based on what fits when you try it on, not on what some random gear editor says they wear on the ...