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The Future of Winter

Our favorite season is changing in ways good and bad. Here are the forecasts for mountain towns, ski bums, and everyone else.

Mountain Life

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Aspen, Colorado, is using Tenants for Turns to chip away at the housing problem that鈥檚 crushing desirable recreation towns around the country

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The proposed eight-mile lift would alleviate ski traffic in Little Cottonwood Canyon and bring visitors to Snowbird and Alta resorts

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New research places a short timeline on the future of snow across the western United States

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Volatile weather has created dangerous conditions for backcountry skiers and set up the West for a bad water year. With climate change exacerbating the situation, it鈥檚 time to start assuming the worst for our winters and making plans to adapt.聽

Ski Forever

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Winter sports are out of reach for most kids across the country. These nonprofits are trying to change that.

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Last winter, when the robotics firm Roam released its latest version of Elevate, a revolutionary exoskeleton promising to boost skiing performance, our writer knew he had to give it a test drive. His analysis: the company's debut product is fun yet flawed鈥攂ut its vision of a tech-assisted sports future will still blow your mind.

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With a triple-dip La Ni帽a cycle bearing down on us this winter, a look into the recent past seems like a promising way to chase powder, just this once

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Ski patrol has become an increasingly unsustainable career path. Now unions are popping up across the country to try and change that.

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Cody Townsend thought his project, the Fifty, would be a mission to descend the 50 best lines in North America. But then climate change started to melt the snow right out from under his skis.

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Season Equipment is trying to break the cycle of new gear every year

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You can blame the usual suspects: the crazy cost of mountain-town housing, the corporatization of the ski industry, the Man. Or dare to believe that our hero lives on.

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国产吃瓜黑料 contributing editor Heather Hansman鈥檚 new book is both a critical take on the ski industry and love letter to its skids

Snow Matters

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Meet the man revolutionizing how we save snow from season to season鈥攃limate change be damned

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Photographer Brian Kaiser captures the joy of this niche winter sport

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Outdoor athletes have plenty of influence on Instagram. Protect Our Winters wants to wield it in the halls of Congress.

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The polymath snowboarder has a new book about the art and philosophy of being in the mountains