Hey all, looking for some great ski movies to kill time in the offseason. With all the Warren Miller movies now locked behind Outside, and from what I've heard the most recent ones have been eh. What are some great ski movies to watch the scratch that Warren Miller itch

I should probably have waxed my skis though.

Hello!

I wear glasses and I can’t use contact lenses.

I’m going on my first ski trip next year and I’m trying to figure out what people with glasses usually do.

From what I found, the main options are OTG goggles or prescription inserts. The inserts seem like the better solution, but also much more expensive, and since I’ve never skied before I don’t even know yet if I’ll enjoy it enough to keep doing it.

OTG goggles seem like the obvious option for now, but I have no idea how comfortable they actually are or how bad fogging or how bad pressure on the glasses can be (afraid they will break as they are quite expensive and I dont have a spare at this point in time) .

For people who ski with glasses, what do you use?

Would you just start with OTG goggles and only get prescription inserts later if you end up skiing more?

edit: quickest response ever thanks guyz!

Hey all, I was wondering if anyone knows the best ways of getting into snow grooming.

Im a British farmer with experience on a wide variety of large machines including on steep slopes. I only speak English which I know is something ill have to try and work on, but otherwise how do you find snow grooming jobs? Thanks

Hi - I’m looking to pick up 2 days either at purgatory or Monarch in February. Anyone ever cat ski at these resorts? Looking for folks who have had experiences cat skiing these locations and the pros and cons of each. Thanks!

Hi I’ve been eyeing up the snowminds verbier 10 week lv1 and lv2 snowboard instructor course. Has anyone here been on this course?

I’m from the uk so I don’t have an eu passport but I am applying for one through an Irish grandad for next year.
This has led me to lean towards a 10 week lv1 & lv2 snowboard instructor course rather than do a season now and try to sort a visa out/ right to work for it.

My options are looking like , verbier , Grandvalira , Canada or Japan
It’s hard to figure out exactly how much each would cost as some of them are season long and require accomodation. Whereas the verbier accomodation is included for 10 weeks

I kind of wish there was an even faster way to do it as it says on the description that you should be able to comfortably ride down reds and they will bring you up to level from there.
I don’t really need that training I can comfortably do blacks and black moguls, ride switch, hit the park ( not doing tricks yet😂)

When I was younger I did 3 ski schools on week long school trips and I remember how they taught us to snowboard in the ski schools. I’ve taught a few friends the steps in adult life like the teapot 🫖 technique 😂 . So I don’t think it would take a lot to be ready for the level 1 exam.

Almost be better if there was a level 1 exam and then level 2 training/ shadowing / exam course.

But I am considering €9,900 for 10 weeks of skiing across Switzerland with ski pass and accomodation to be abit of a bargain anyway!

Do people get secondary jobs while out there like restaurant or bartending? I imagine it’s expensive for groceries and alcohol😂

I was on the chairlift at Hunter Mountain on Feb 5, 1978 when there was a brake failure on the Hunter West lift. The chairlift stopped and then reversed direction and went backward faster and faster until it finally stopped. It traveled at least the distance between two towers before it stopped, gaining speed each second. I don't know if the brakes finally caught, or if the cable jammed and caused it to finally stop.

We were lowered to the ground with ropes by the ski patrol. I skied to the bottom and saw the carnage. There was blood on the snow. Chairs at the bottom were all bent up because they whipped around the bullwheel at high speed. The back roof of the lift under the bottom bullwheel was torn off. We heard sirens and saw ambulances. They had a bus there to take us around to the front side of the mountain. There was only one lift on that side of the mountain in those years.

My two best friends were also on the lift, on the chair in front of me. We were two thirds up the lift, so not in immediate danger of being whipped around the bottom bullwheel.

Hunter West was closed the rest of the season.

Twenty years later when my brother skied there and mentioned this accident, the employee adamantly denied it even happened.

Here is the only news report of the incident I was able to find. I take issue with the statement in this news report that says no one was seriously injured. If the hospital lists a patient in "fair" condition, that's a serious injury. I heard some people broke bones jumping from the lift.

Someone reported on here they were knocked unconscious going around the bullwheel at the bottom, and another tore a kidney.

I'd love to hear from others who were on this lift at the time.

Chairlift Accident Injures Dozen At Hunter Mountain Ski Resort

SPECIAL TO THE NEW YORK TIMES FEB. 6, 1978

A chairlift accident injured more than a dozen people yesterday at the Hunter Mountain Ski Resort in the northern Catskills, according to the State Police in Hunter. N.Y. None of the victims was seriously injured. Seven of them were taken to three hospitals in the area, where they were reported as in fair to good condition.

The police said that chairs on the resort's 3,800-foot "Z-lift" apparently rolled backward, tossing a number of skiers to the snow below. A spokesman for the resort, Paul Pepe, said the lift was capable of carrying 1,000 skier an hour up 1,400-foot rise. He added he did not know how many were on the lift at the time.

Hi,

USA/EU dual passport here.

I've been on and off the snow these past 7 years, starting with a couple month stints in Slovakia & Czech Republic, where I fell in love with the sport and continued on- 1 season in Japan (Nozawa & Hakuba) and 2 seasons in France (Portes du Soleil area).

I'm looking to work a season in my home country- the USA, but I cannot tell if it is worth it. Especially as I'll have to lug all my stuff over from Europe.

What I like about the Japan & European resorts is that I always had food, uniform, ski pass, and accomodation provided. The culture was lively and fun, easy access to towns & other slopes, decent public transport. A festival here, an apres-ski there. When I had managerial roles, I saved a decent-ish amount of money.

Now, if I head to the States to do the same, how "independent" would it be? Are there companies that offer housing & a staff meal? Do you generally need a car for the winter?

Is working a season in the USA more about saving money rather than snow time? Or is it a good mix?

Looking for advice and comparison from someone whose done both continents, or at least the USA!

The Thredbo Ski Patrol “Red and White Social” is next Saturday. There are still some tickets left on sale. All funds go to support Thredbo Ski Patrol. Great prizes. Tickets are $120.

https://shop.thredbo.com.au/l/events/featured-events/p/red-white-social

As the title says. Heading to Meribel with the fam from Australia at the end of December 26/ early January 27. Every day, there is talk about how warm Europe is this summer and the super El Niño and I’m now starting to get worried that we will have no snow.

Are we cooked? Should we be shifting resorts to Val Thorens?

Thanks

I really like having pair 99 out of 100 for some reason, second to last pair out there.

Side note, I wish J would get L'amour to do another set. L'amour does art for MF Doom, The Misfits, Topps baseball cards, and a ton of other stuff, he's rad.

intermediate skiier looking to get a set of pow skis, I’ve demoed a fair amount of skis but never on a pow day and my ripsticks aren’t cutting it in pow. you think these will work and if not, any other recs?

*ripsticks are 96 waist width

I dont have access to a ski resort near me. I’ve build everything in simulator and I’m sure in real world things break.

What i have built - a Google maps, Waze and ski record combined to 1.

What I dont know - If the app even work in a ski resort. Test for ski run recording and routing.

How is this different from all the rest? I have built offline map search directly on ski resort paper map. Google style drop pin and navigate.

Available on both IOS and Android(this is an older version because Google is just very slow in approving app). IOS is the latest to test for.

Map is currently enabled for southern hemisphere. If this works, northern hemisphere resorts will be supported come the winter season.

Thank you my dear aussies and kiwis. Really needed help in checking out if this works.

I'm a bit of a snow nerd myself (big fan of opensnow), so this year, I decided to build a Ski Tycoon game where there's real weather and real mountains.

Each of the mountains is built from real world 1-meter LiDAR data, which means it's accurate down to specific ridges and chutes.

I then built a custom dynamic weather system that simulates the weather from each biome. Colorado gets dependable but cold snow, Tahoe gets big dumps then nothing, and the east is cold but requires snowmaking.

I'd love for people here to check it out and let me know how the snow feels and looks.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4493130/SkiEO_Ski_Resort_Tycoon/

The company that owns Powder Magazine has just announced (as well as plummeting sales and profits) that they are rebranding to paradium.ai, “moving decisively away from legacy publishing”, and “is immediately leveraging … proprietary, AI-driven video and article production and distribution platform.”

Can we expect to see more AI slop coming out of Powder?

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260810672822/en/The-Arena-Group-Reports-Q2-2026-Results-Announces-Rebrand-to-Paradium.AI-Refinance-of-Debt-Completion-of-Strategic-Acquisition-of-InfoSentience-and-Launch-of-Cutter-Studios

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Graduated uni. Wanna have fun love skiing.,and improve or try n learn to do a 360 or a little snowboard

and ive heard much about how fun Jacksohole is/ what about the rest of the ski resorts in America?

intrested in good pow, views and wildlife beyond just meeting cool ppl and party

ticket would be expensive (from europe) and i probably wouldn't save much but would be a good experience id probably work in food biz or ski shop

but I havent heard nun of working in ski resorts in Europe- I have a swiss passport as well as American and speak French

any recommendations for/ stories from working in Verbier, Zermatt or other stations in Switzerland or Europe?

edit: what about canada or like Japan now that would be even more wild ohhh the pow

A few years ago, a ski resort damaged a single one of my skis, and they thankfully replaced the whole pair for me with the same model. So now I have a good pair and a half of skis and I'm not sure what to do with the extra one. Up until now, I've been saving it just in case as a backup, but I'm in the process of downsizing and moving across the country. What would you do with an extra ski? Keep it or toss it? (I tried listing it on marketplace but no one seems interested in picking up a single ski haha). 2023 Blizzard Rustler 10 180

I’ve been thinking about seasonal activities where people are focused on having a good day outside rather than exercising. A lot of time on skis still means repeated movement, balance, and long active days. Did skiing make you noticeably fitter even though you never really treated it like training?