Clare Menzel
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Whitefish, MT, United States
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Women, Sign Up for Our New Women's Ski Clinics! For Women!
Storm Cycles for Ladies: Code red! It dumped a foot overnight and then Aunt Flo showed up unannounced. Learn and practice techniques to shred while you → Read More
Why Canadian First Nation Skiers Stopped the Largest Resort Development in Years
The decades-long battle against Jumbo Glacier Resorts is finally over → Read More
Why the Amish are Montana's Most Devoted Backcountry Skiers
In the late ’90s, a few Amish families moved to St. Ignatius from the backwoods of northwest Montana in pursuit of more open living in the wide-set valley. → Read More
Would You Sign Up for a Ski Trip to an Unknown Destination?
The Mystery Trip is seven days of skiing in February 2020, guided by Ptor Spricenieks. Destination: Undisclosed. → Read More
Urban Ski Legend LJ Strenio is Going to Work for NASA
Earlier this summer, as America celebrated the Apollo 11 moon landing’s 50th anniversary, LJ Strenio opened an email from NASA with a job offer. Yes, the → Read More
With 17-Resort Acquisition, the Northeast Just Got a Lot More Vail-y
Once again, Vail Resorts is expanding its empire. The conglomerate giant announced yesterday an agreement to acquire 17 east coast ski areas owned by Peak → Read More
Man With Zero Experience Heroically Steps Up to Buy Struggling Ski Area
A true diamond in the rough, aside from the invasive population of snow gophers → Read More
Skiers Could Be Held Liable for More Next Season
Skier accepts any and all risk related to consumption of copious cheese → Read More
Upset Backcountry Skier Demands to Speak to Manager
However, an unidentified source with ties to the White Room reached out to POWDER, on the condition of anonymity. → Read More
Unsolicited Advice on Your Sponsorship Cover Letter
We noticed you’ve been working on a cover letter seeking sponsorship from Stoked Homies Into T-Bar Yodeling (SHITTY) Gear Co, so let us offer some feedback. → Read More
Wait, is it Endless Winter? Or Fire Season?
While Colorado gets covered with inches of fresh snow, wildfire smoke from northern Alberta settles across portions of Montana, Wyoming, Idaho, and Washington. → Read More
24-Hour Ski Resort Timelapses Are Our New Obsession
We've compiled the best on-mountain-cam porn. Enjoy the magic. → Read More
The Best Muscle Rubs for Sore Ski Muscles
If I were stranded on a desert island and could have one item from home to use for survival, I'd probably choose my foam roller—but only because I think it's against the rules to choose "my muscle rub collection" which consists not of one item, but of many, many, salves and creams and ointments, each → Read More
Returning to Skiing After Injury? Keep This In Mind.
I roll out my yoga mat beside the window and gently stretch into my hamstrings as the sun rises. It is the first day of the ski season. Morning creeps in so quiet I hardly notice it's here, until, all at once, I realize that this day is impeccable. Milky coffee, breakfast bagel, dining-table resort → Read More
How the Government Shutdown Affects Backcountry Safety
As the United States’ longest government shutdown wears on into its fourth week, employees working at 14 Forest Service avalanche centers across the country continue to produce forecasts assessing snowpack stability and hazards associated with winter backcountry travel. "The Forest Service avalanche centers are open for business and are fully operational," Karl Birkeland, Director of → Read More
Your Heart and Brain Are Working Against You in Avalanche Terrain
If you're a backcountry skier, you spend a lot of time thinking about the snowpack. You pay attention to the impacts of weather and time on the layers hidden below surface. You anticipate where there may be strengths and weaknesses, and then you dig big holes in the snow, seeking evidence. You investigate, rigorously, because → Read More
What's Happening To Your Brain On the Skin Track
Your mental dialogue on the uptrack is entertaining enough to be its own radio program. Kind of. → Read More
How Close Calls with Avalanches Can Make Us Safer Skiers
A slight breeze across the snow and a last-minute misgiving saved Matt Vial's life. He was skiing with a partner in the backcountry near Girdwood, Alaska, in February. The forecast was favorable: The avalanche danger rating was moderate, reporting that wind may have transported some recent snowfall. On the ascent, the pair didn't observe any → Read More
Make This Ski Season Magic Health Potion
Imagine this. The alarm goes off, a whiny, disagreeable sound that splits your brain in half and makes you want to puke. You're inclined to throw your phone out the window, roll over, and pretend the outside world doesn't exist. Are you hungover? Are you dying? Probably, and we all are, but more pressingly, you're → Read More
How to Prevent Blowing a Knee This Winter
When I tore my ACL for the third time this past spring, I figured it was about time to get serious about never ever, ever, ever again sustaining one of these obnoxiously slow-healing and expensive injuries. And because I only want the best for you (and also to make more friends at the gym), I → Read More