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SnowBrains Podcast Ep. 88 | Mike Rogge – Editor & Owner of the Mountain Gazette

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Mike Rogge is the editor and owner of the Mountain Gazette, one of the most iconic outdoor publications ever made. Rogge revived the Gazette from dormancy in 2020 and turned it into something truly special – a huge format, beautifully written, unapologetically independent magazine that celebrates mountain life in its rawest form. He is also a lifelong skier, storyteller, and […]
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Powder Magazine Releases 2026 Annual Photo Issue, Continuing the Revival of Print Ski Journalism

Powder Magazine just released its annual print magazine, marking the third consecutive year of print since its celebrated return to newsstands in 2023. With 140 pages of photo essays, the issue is sure to become a collectible for snow sport lovers. Featured on the 2026 cover is Chris Benchetler while skiing at Mammoth Mountain, California, for his upcoming movie Mountains […]
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SnowBrains Podcast Ep. 63 | Christian Pondella – Senior Photographer at Powder Magazine, Adventure Photographer, Extreme Ski Mountaineer, and Ice Climber

This episode of the SnowBrains Podcast is brought to you by Club Med. On the second episode of Season 5 of The SnowBrains Podcast, Miles Clark sits down to talk with Mammoth-based adventure photographer and ski mountaineer Christian Pondella.  Christian Pondella is: a top adventure photographer a senior photographer at Powder Magazine a photographer published in: National Geographic Sports Illustrated […]
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Winter 2021-22 Will Be The First Season Without a Print Edition of Powder Magazine in Nearly 50 Years

This winter will be the first since the winter of 1972-73 that there won’t be a print edition of Powder Magazine. The final edition of the ski industry staple—THE magazine for skiers—was printed on November 20, 2020. On October 2, 2020, news broke that Powder was being discontinued after parent company A360 Media, LLC ( formerly known as American Media, LLC), […]
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RIP Powder Magazine… Or Will It Comeback From the Dead?

As if 2020 had not brought enough pain, news broke on or about October 2, 2020, that Powder Magazine, “The Skier’s Magazine,” was being discontinued after their parent company A360 Media, LLC ( formerly American Media, LLC), announced that the entire editorial staff would be placed on indefinite furlough, effective November 20, 2020, when operations of the magazine, the website, […]
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Former Powder Editor Says Powder Magazine To Shut Down After 48-Years

https://twitter.com/skiingrogge/status/1312494526724931584 Former Powder Magazine Editor, Mike Rogge, stated yesterday that he believes Powder Magazine will be closing down in the end of November 2020. Other industry insiders are stating the same as Rogge: Powder Magazine is going to close its doors. On the spine of the latest issue of the magazine is printed “We’ve still got issues”. https://twitter.com/anniefast/status/1312484576451719169 Powder Magazine […]
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The 1st POWDER Magazine of 2020/21 Is Here | Are You Ready For Winter?

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When POWDER Magazine drops its first issue of the upcoming season, it really is time to start getting excited about snow. Related: It’s September… Beware Well, that time is now. The first issue of the 2020/21 season has just dropped, to ease your snow withdrawal and get the stoke started for winter. Do you still eagerly anticipate the first issue landing […]
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American Media Purchases ‘Powder Magazine’ from California Based ‘Adventure Sports Network’

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Forbes is reporting that American Media announced that it’s acquiring 14 adventure and sports media brands from TEN: Publishing’s Adventure Sports Network. The titles include some of the best-known niche-sports brands in magazine media, including Powder, Bike, Surfer, Canoe & Kayak, several Transworld titles, and Snowboarder. “The opportunity to merge the incredible ASN brands with our recent acquisition of Men’s Journal establishes a significant […]
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15th Annual Powder Awards Breakdown and Cody Townsend Interview:

Thanks to the great people at Power Magazine & Snowbrains I was able to get an exclusive media invite to the annual Powder Awards this year. The event takes place once a year and in this honors the best of each and every discipline in free skiing. With free skiing changing and progressing so much every year the pow awards see something new and different win in each category, this yearThe event took place in downtown Salt Lake City on a busy Friday night, with some of the best skiers and companies in free skiing up for […]
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Top Gun: The Six Industry Award Winning Powder Skis of 2015

2015 has already brought us a plethora of big, fat, burly powder skis. There’s literally dozens of these things, so how do we know which are the best of the best? The most efficient way to know which Powder Skis are the best is to compile all the Powder Skis that won awards from reputable sources who put in the energy to test every 2015 powder ski out there. Just Freeskier alone tested over 350 skis last year. We’ve aggregated the 5 best powder skis of 2015 according to the industries highest awards for you and displayed them here. These are the best of the best. The top guns of […]
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“Vail Is Not the Enemy” | By Derek Taylor

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(note: Derek Taylor was the editor of Powder Magazine from 2008 to 2012. He wrote this piece for Outdoor Magazine.) Vail has gotten a lot of flak recently. Their lawyer-powered acquisition of Park City ski resort in Utah has kept them in the headlines for the past year. Vail now owns 11 ski resorts: Park City & The Canyons in Utah Kirkwood, Heavenly, & Northstar in California Beaver Creek, Vail, Keystone, Breckenridge in Colorado Afton Alps in Minnesota Mount Brighton in Michigan Some think that this enormous consolidation of the ski industry is a bad thing. Derek Taylor thinks it’s a good thing. One thing is for sure: Vail’s Epic Pass […]
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What Is Faceted Snow & Why Does It Cause Avalanches?

Early-season snowfall and a thin snowpack are some of our biggest enemies in the avalanche game. That’s because these conditions are prime for faceting, which creates persistent weak layers. So far this season, with October promises of an epic season still unfulfilled by January in many places, a faceted weak layer has been the culprit of a majority of the fatalities in North America and Europe. […]
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Backcountry Essentials: How Wind Loading Works

Powder Magazine just had Sean Zimmerman-Wall, a Snowbird, UT ski patroller write up a great piece on how wind loading work and what to watch out for. Strong winds create some of the most dangerous objects in the mountains: wind slabs. Wind slabs cause avalanches and avalanche are to be avoided at all costs. Sean Zimmerman-Wall is a full-time ski patrolman at Snowbird, an avalanche educator, and an Andean mountain guide. Check in on […]
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How To Pick a Backcountry Ski Partner:

Picking your backcountry ski partner is key. A bad partner could cost you your life, a good partner could save your life, a great partner could help you to an accident free excursion. Silverton Mountain’s Doug Krause puts in his two cents on the subject for Powder Magazine. Here’s an excerpt: Who you ski with is potentially more consequential than what you ski. A strong partner enhances your ability to […]
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Powder Magazine Writes Article on How Bad Tahoe is Right Now…

Jeremy Benson of Powder Magazine has written an poignant article about how heavy our hearts have become from the current lack of snow in Tahoe. In case you didn’t know, it hasn’t snowed yet in Tahoe this year. It’s real real bad. This quote from Jeremy’s Powder magazine article sums it up nicely: “Soul-crushing would be a good way to describe our lack of snow, the kind of drought that makes you […]
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