It’s Sunday, and you know what that means—we’re back with the results of another POWDER Weekly Poll!
This week, we asked, what ski pass offers the best value?
Here’s what 702 skiers had to say.
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Poll Highlights
Total Votes: 702
Number of Votes on Instagram: 220
Number of Votes on Website: 482
Most Popular Option:Epic Pass (297 votes, 42% of voters)
Least Popular Option: Mountain Collective (54 votes, 8% of voters)
Other results:
Ikon Pass: 244 votes, 35% of voters
The Indy Pass: 108 votes, 15% of voters
Poll Observations
Not unsurprisingly, the two best-known ski passes on the market, the Epic Pass and the Ikon Pass, came out on top. There was some variability based on the platform skiers used to vote, though. On Instagram, which had a smaller number of voters, the Ikon Pass took first by a wide margin. On our website, the Epic Pass was the most popular option, and the most chosen option overall on both platforms.
Geography matters a lot when choosing a ski pass. “Value is very subjective,” read one comment on our website. “It all depends on your home mountain, how much you ski, and where you like to ski when traveling.” The Epic Pass, for instance, offers access to a large number of ski areas across the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic. Other commenters shared a similar sentiment.
It makes sense that the Indy Pass and Mountain Collective saw fewer votes. These passes differ significantly from the Ikon and Epic Passes, only offering two days of access at each mountain. That makes them strong candidates for vacationing skiers, rather than skiers looking for a pass they can use every weekend at their home mountain. They were also the cheapest two pass options we chose.
Summed up in a different way, another skier wrote, “The one I bought. It works for me and I don’t expect anyone to buy the same anything just because I did.”
Even as Vail Resorts has, at times, drawn the ire of skiers, its Epic Pass has remained less expensive than the competing Ikon Pass over the years. If you’re in an area with ski resorts covered by both passes, that would make the Epic Pass the most affordable option. That’s reflected in how skiers voted.
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Are skiers getting tired of talking about ski passes? Most likely. This was one of the smallest turnouts we’ve seen for a poll. Last week, for instance, we received more than 3,000 votes for a poll about pole straps.
Limited by Instagram’s four-option max, this poll didn’t include some major passes. The Power Pass, namely, is relatively cheap and focuses mostly on ski areas in the American Southwest. It also provides access to two Chilean ski resorts. Other, more niche products, like the Boyne Passport, are on the market, too.
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Chris Pratt led the domestic box office on Friday with the only major newcomer of the weekend: Amazon MGM’s “Mercy.” The sci-fi thriller threatens to end the winning streak of “Avatar: Fire and Ash,” which has topped the North American charts for the past five weekends.
“Mercy” earned $5 million domestically on its opening day from 3,468 locations. The film is projected to gross $12.6 million by Sunday.
Pratt leads “Mercy” as Chris Raven, a detective from the not-so-distant future who is on trial for the murder of his wife, played by Annabelle Wallis. An AI judge, played by Rebecca Ferguson, gives him 90 minutes to prove his innocence or face immediate execution. Timur Bekmambetov, a familiar face in the screenlife subgenre, directs the film with a script from Marco van Belle.
“Avatar: Fire and Ash” added $1.7 million on its sixth Friday at the domestic box office. James Cameron’s sci-fi threequel should pull in an estimated $7.1 million over the weekend, bringing its North American total to $378 million.
Unless the tides shift, “Avatar: Fire and Ash” will relinquish its box office crown before the end of its sixth weekend in theaters. The first “Avatar” and its sequel, “The Way of Water,” both remained No. 1 through seven weeks and grossed well over $2 billion.
Lionsgate’s domestic thriller “The Housemaid” grossed $1.48 million on Friday for a third-place finish. Its domestic total should reach $115 million by the end of the weekend. The adaptation of Freida McFadden’s twisty novel became a sleeper hit through the holidays and beyond, powering well past its $35 million pricetag. Naturally, a sequel is in the works, with star Sydney Sweeney and director Paul Feig returning.
Rounding out the Friday top five were Disney’s box office juggernaut “Zootopia 2” and Sony’s zombie thriller, “28 Years Later: The Bone Temple.”
At No. 4 was “Zootopia 2,” which earned $1.4 million on its ninth Friday in North American theaters. The animated sequel should gross an estimated $5.9 million through the weekend, pushing its domestic total to a mighty $401 million.
“28 Years Later: The Bone Temple” came in last place with just $1.2 million domestic on its second Friday in theaters. Sony’s horror thriller opened soft last weekend with $13 million against projections of $20 million to $22 million through the Martin Luther King Jr. Day frame. “The Bone Temple,” which carries a $63 million price tag, looks to add $4.2 million by Sunday (a 68% drop), for a domestic total of $21 million.
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Whether you know professional skier Caite Zeliff as the Queen of Corbet’s Couloir or from her massive hucks on the big screen with MSP, you know she’s no stranger to big mountains.
Raised on the slopes of New Hampshire’s Cranmore Mountain, Zeliff took her skills from icy eastern gates to the Tetons and then to some of Alaska’s most formidable terrain to build her career.
Along the way, Zeliff found Morgan McGlashon, another ski racer turned big mountain aficionado. McGlashon was born and raised in the Tetons and spent her life playing in the range, even becoming the youngest woman to ski the Grand Teton at 18. After getting a degree in geology, McGlashon returned to the Tetons and subsequently became the youngest female ski guide at the prestigious outfitter, Exum Guides.
The parallels in Zeliff and McGlashon’s lives created a friendship that ran deeper than just skiing. Ultimately, this friendship led them on a ten-day expedition in Alaska’s Tordrillo Mountains.
You can watch Zeliff and McGlashon ski human-powered lines and navigate winter camping in My Ride or Die below, and keep reading for more.
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Zeliff and McGlashon are both undeniably total badasses.
Both of their pursuits on skis, whether human-powered up the toughest lines in the Tetons or heli-accessed in Alaska, take a lot of grit and bravery. However, after a big crash left her with a brain injury, Zeliff has started to explore a new approach to her career that emphasizes a duality between doing things with grit and bravery and slowing down and finding joy.
As familiar as she is with big-mountain lines in Alaska, Zeliff has often skied them by helicopter. McGlashon’s skill set as a ski mountaineer and guide was not only invaluable to the trip but also forced Zeliff to be a beginner again in some ways, which, in turn, forced her to slow down and find joy in learning again.
Zeliff and McGlashon.
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There’s no doubt the lines skied in My Ride or Die are impressive, but the film also explores the more complex themes of being a beginner again, trusting your friends, and the deeper bonds the mountains can form between people.
It’s a far cry from the shredporn-heavy films skiing sees too often, and gives a more vulnerable look at two incredibly strong skiers with a healthy dose of bluebird pow.
Lastly, having just spent a week in a tent in the backcountry with Zeliff myself, I can say she’s got the winter camping thing absolutely dialed now.
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“Mercy” is built around two hooks that feel destined to inspire a lack of enthusiasm among critics. The first is that it stars Chris Pratt, who has not exactly found favor in the twelve years since he held down the center of “Guardians of the Galaxy.” In that movie, he seemed a natural-born star; his likability was part of the film’s chattery spontaneous pre-Marvel-overkill flow. Yet Pratt started to get swallowed up by the top-heavy franchise movies he was in — and it didn’t help that reviewers, weirdly, seemed to hold him almost responsible for his character’s stalker ethics in “Passengers” (2016). Over those last dozen years, he became a B-list presence.
Pratt factor aside, the premise of “Mercy” makes it sound like the sort of thin, doctrinaire anti-technology, anti-police-state thriller that Arnold Schwarzenegger would have starred in 40 years ago (and did, in fact, when he made “The Running Man”). But the movie turns out to be a notch or two better than you expect.
In the not-so-far-away future, Pratt’s Chris Raven is an LAPD officer — decent at heart, dirty around the edges — who wakes up after a bender to learn that he has been arrested and strapped into a digitally wired interrogation chair. Accused of killing his wife in cold blood, he is now the latest defendant in the Mercy program, a tolerance-is-for-suckers anti-crime experiment that sounds like pure government-meets-big-tech future-shock fascism. You’re placed on trial in front of an AI-generated enforcer named Judge Maddox (played, in a witty piece of casting, by the elegant Rebecca Ferguson), who is in fact going to be your judge, jury, and executioner. According to the law, you’re presumed guilty until proven innocent. Raven has just 90 minutes to defend himself and call up any evidence he wants. If the probability of his innocence dips below 94 percent (i.e., reasonable doubt), he’ll go free. If it doesn’t, he’ll be executed when the clock runs out.
This real-time thriller, in the tradition of “D.O.A.” and “Timecode,” is designed to make us go, “God, what a nightmare system.” And since the prospect of death-by-virtual-judge-by-evidentiary-algorithm sounds like the sort of demagogic idea that might fit all too well into the place America could now be on its way to becoming, we see the timely parallels. Yet as moviegoers, we’re still bracing ourselves for a one-note dystopian thriller-satire.
The first surprise of “Mercy” is that the virtual courtroom Raven finds himself in, with images scrolling around like something out of a pulp version of “Minority Report,” isn’t stacked against him in the way we expect. I mean, it sort of is, but since Raven is free to dial up anything he wants (documents, witnesses, surveillance footage) at the touch of a keypad, he’s got a universe of investigative power at his fingertips. All the evidence will be judged fairly. And since he can zip from one surveillance-camera clip to the next, and use that ability to essentially go back in time, the sheer speed and density with which the clues pile up make “Mercy” an avidly watchable mystery, even if it’s got a rather standard conspiracy plot at its core.
Pratt’s Raven is like a Bruce Willis character from the ’90s, and if he simply headed out into the streets of L.A. to clear his name, the film might feel like wall-to-wall cliché. Instead, scenes of detective action flash by in a pinpoint moment rather than overstaying their welcome. “Mercy,” directed by Timur Bekmambetov (“Wanted”) with a crisp short-attention-span gusto (the film has three editors, and you can see why), is like “Minority Report” meets “Memento” meets “Cops” meets a crime-detective video game. It threads Raven’s investigation through a multimedia mixmaster. And Pratt is compelling in it. He got swallowed up in franchise-ville because he let himself become an actor of bland good vibes, but here he’s sharp and nasty and a bit “dark,” which looks better on him.
At first, of course, the evidence that points to Raven being guilty looks airtight. He and his wife, Nicole (Annabelle Wallis), were in the midst of divorcing, and we see him show up at the house the morning of the murder, angry and reckless, demanding to be let in; minutes later, Nicole is lying in a pool of blood, having been stabbed with a kitchen knife. After the crime, Raven headed to a bar and drank so much that he can’t even remember what happened. (That he spent the last year falling off the wagon, taking nips of whiskey in the garage, only makes him look more scurrilous.) Solving the crime will require quick detours into the lives of his loyal partner who was killed (Kenneth Choi); his new partner (Kali Reis), who seems the soul of trustiness; his blustery AA sponsor (Chris Sullivan); and his teen-brat daughter (Kylie Rogers).
Yet none of them is as fully realized a character as Judge Maddox. She’s a completely programmed presence, but Rebecca Ferguson, speaking in authoritarian tones of dulcet logic, endows her with that barely perceptible twinkle of AI “consciousness.” As the film presents it, the Mercy program is fascistic. And Raven, as we learn, was responsible for bringing to trial its very first defendant. It was a show trial, designed to prove the superiority of judgment-by-AI. But can an AI judge really judge the evidence? Actually, the movie’s sly joke is that an AI judge might be able to do that more objectively than a jury; but it also needs a little human factor to collaborate with. You expect “Mercy” to be anti-AI, but it might be the first film of its era — it will not be the last — to look at AI and ask, “Can we all get along?”
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Ski brands have reputations, and for an entire generation of skiers, Blizzard’s has undoubtedly been that of being the brand for hard-charging resort skiers looking for powerful on-piste skis and crud-blasting performance. With stiff, damp, directional skis like the Cochise, Sheeva, Anomaly, and Rustler dominating their lineup for the better part of a decade, it’s been a long time since Blizzard delivered a ski aimed at skiers looking for something more playful. They’ve long catered to skiers who come from a racing background, or at least know a thing or two about “traditional” ski technique. With the release of the all-new Canvas line, that’s all changed.
Designed with heavy input from their next generation of freeride athletes, the all-new Blizzard Canvas 108 is something we haven’t seen in a long time from Blizzard: a progressive twin-tip ski without a beefy, metal-reinforced core inside to stiffen things up.
At first glance, it harkens back to the days of the Blizzard Gunsmoke in the mid-2010s era, a twin-tip freeride ski that balanced playfulness and Blizzard’s hard-charging DNA to become a cult-favorite ride among skiers out West. But, after riding it for the better part of the early season here in the Tetons and Wasatch, I’ve found it’s truly something new for Blizzard.
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Blizzards are stiff and filled with metal, right? Not this one! The Canvas 108 is a stark departure from what we’re used to seeing from the Austrians at Blizzard.
Of course, the elephant in the room is the fact that this is a purpose-built twin tip ski, with a suggested mount point closer to center than most. The tip and tail shape is still quintessentially Blizzard (with smoothly rounded taper lines paired with twin-rocker construction and good amount of camber underfoot. The size-specific turn radius (19 meters for the tested 186 length) falls squarely into the middle of the road, balancing both a quick-turning character with more high-speed stability.
The Canvas 108 skips the stiff nature of just about every other ski in the existing blizzard lineup–its poplar and paulownia wood core provides a soft, poppy, and very round flex profile. I was actually surprised to learn that a small strip of metal runs down the center of the ski, since it doesn’t add a “heavy metal” feel to the ski by any means. It’s no noodle, but I found it quite easy to flex. In fact, I can butter up onto the tips of these without too much effort–something I’ve never been able to do with any other Blizzard ski.
It’s a Blizzard, so yes, it can carve.
Griffin Kerwin
That softer flex also comes at the cost of some damping–an attribute many skiers have loved Blizzard’s other freeride skis for. However, it’s clear the design/athlete team wanted to do something different, so instead of all-out crud-busting dampness, they went in the direction of loads of energy, poppiness, and a ski that can ollie and boost off features like a skateboard.
The poppiness is further enhanced by how light the ski is. At 1870g per ski, the 186cm length falls closer to the category of backcountry touring skis than mid-fat all-mountain rippers.
For reference, I skied these mounted with a Look Pivot 2.0 and Atomic Remedy 130 boots.
On-Snow Performance:
Ski testing so far this winter has been much more challenging than most. Most resorts struggled to open on time, and warm temperatures combined with rain to ruin an already fragile snowpack once they did. I’m used to skiing pow starting around Thanksgiving here in the Tetons, so I was a bit bummed to be stuck riding chopped-up man-made snow on various Slopes of Hope/Ribbons of Death for most of December.
My mind wants to immediately compare it to other Blizzard skis to paint a picture about it, but I want to describe it for what it is, not what it isn’t. That being said, the Canvas 108 might as well have been the perfect ski for our collective early-season situation. The first word I’d use to describe this ski is very simple: “fun.” But it goes far beyond that.
The Canvas 108 is extremely easy to ski, initiating turns without much effort, and offers a substantial amount of “draw” for a twin twip (the feeling of a ski pulling you into a carved turn and across the fall line). It is a Blizzard after all, and these guys have a whole video series extolling the virtues of “The Turn,” so that responsiveness is not all too surprising. In my experience, most twin-tipped skis with a mount point this close to center don’t offer that, instead providing a more centered, neutral, and pivot-y character.
The quick-pivoting nature of the Canvas 108 makes steep bumps, chutes, and billygoat-y skiing a breeze.
Griffin Kerwin
However, the Canvas 108 doesn’t need your full front-of-the-boot attention to feel like you can control it. In fact, it wants to be pivoted, smeared, and buttered just as much as it wants to carve. It’s stupidly fun on skied-out groomers littered with sidehits where you’re carving a few turns, slashing some soft bumps, and lining up sidehit airs to spin, shifty, or perform whatever aerial maneuvers you please. In steeper trees, bumped out or chalky snow, the ski feels similarly alive, with the light weight and impressive pop making it easy to air over moguls, press through troughs, and drift high-speed turns in chalky windbuffed bowls.
The one downside to the sprightly nature of these skis is that they don’t have quite enough mass to punch through heavy, wet, and cut-up snow. While the tip rocker profile and loose tails help with maneuverability in those conditions (which we’ve unfortunately had more of this early season that I would wish on my worst enemy), they do get tossed around quite a bit when trying to ski fast in them.
I did head into some deeper snow out of bounds once it started falling in late December to get a feel for how these perform in big-mountain terrain. That included a few laps out the gates at Jackson Hole (once they re-opened after a forced closure) and some time on my favorite local backcountry bootpack on Mt. Glory. Unsurprisingly, the Canvas 108 is ridiculously fun in pow. The mid-fat waist width isn’t the floatiest option by any means, and I’d probably opt for the soon-to-be-released Canvas 118 for dedicated pow use, but the twin-rocker shape and approachable flex make these extremely fun to bounce around in deep snow aboard, encouraging slashes, nosebutters, and just all-around playful skiing.
Blasting down Jackson Hole’s Tower 3 Chute trying to beat Jim and Mads’ Strava time.
Griffin Kerwin
Comparisons:
About 10 years ago, the mid-fat twin tip was a very popular category in skiing, with just about every brand offering something to fill that slot. In recent years, that seemed to shift towards more directional offerings, especially from race-pedigree brands like Blizzard, Völkl, or Atomic. As always, the industry operates in circles, and today, I feel like that twin-tip style is making a comeback.
The first and perhaps most similarly-intentioned ski I’d compare the Canvas 108 to is the Faction Studio 2. Both fall into the all-mountain twin-tip category and are meant to balance playful and hard-charging characteristics, but do so very differently. I’ve found the Studio 2 to be stiffer and much more piste-oriented than the Canvas 108. It’s a bit quicker and more nimble and offers better edge hold on icy slopes, but I’d tap the Canvas for versatility and think it would make a more usable and fun resort ski for most skiers.
On the soft-snow freestyle front, I think the closest comparison is to the Atomic Bent 110. At nearly identical weights and very similar shapes, I expected these skis to feel more similar than they do. The Canvas feels much more energetic and “alive” than the Bent 110, making it a better option for inbounds skiing in variable conditions. Conversely, the more time I’ve spent on the Bent 110, I think it makes for an excellent freestyle touring ski that’s best kept to untouched soft snow.
Finally, for all you Blizzard diehards out there, I want to compare this to the Blizzard Rustler 11. These skis are nothing alike. That’s not to say that if you love the Rustler 11 you won’t like the Canvas–it’s just very different. Where the Rustler wants to blast high-speed directional turns through whatever lies in its path, the Canvas wants to dance around, air over, and style its way through similar terrain. The Rustler 11 wants to be in contact with the snow going straight, while the Canvas 108 doesn’t care whether it’s in the air, sideways, backwards, or upside down.
Chalky bumps! Are so fun on the Canvas 108!
Griffin Kerwin
What type of skier is the Blizzard Canvas 108 best for?
As such a stark departure from what we’ve seen coming out of the Blizzard factory these last few years, I think the Canvas 108 is a ski that’s going to be best suited for an entirely different set of skiers than a Rustler, Anomaly, Sheeva, Black Pearl or Cochise. Truth be told, the Canvas breathes some much-needed fresh life into Blizzard’s ski lineup and will be a great choice for any modern, progressive freeskier looking for a do-it-all resort ski for riding out West, or a pow-day ski for East Coast riding.
The best part? Thanks to its still excellent on-piste performance, I don’t think it will alienate skiers who still demand a ski that can carve and make a “real” ski turn–it can do that plus hang in the park, slash and butter in pow, and turn all the resort sidehits into your personal fun zone.
In an unbilled performance Saturday night at the Light of Day festival in New Jersey, Bruce Springsteen took solemn time out during an otherwise celebratory 75-minute set to dedicate “The Promised Land” to the memory of slain Minneapolis woman Renee Good, decrying the “Gestapo tactics” that he said have resulted in a climate where citizens can be “murdered for exercising your American right to protest.”
Reciting a list of what he considers core American values, Springsteen then said that anyone who believes in them should “send a message to this president. And as the mayor of that city has said, ICE should get the fuck out of Minneapolis. So this one is for you, and the memory of the mother of three and American citizen Renee Good.”
He then launched, with the evening’s house band, into “The Promised Land,” the 1978 rocker that is one of his most enduring anthems and concert favorites.
The remarks about Good and ICE were disseminated on fan video (see below) and first reported in full by Jay Lustig of NJArts.net.
Springsteen began his “Promised Land” introduction by calling the “Darkness on the Edge of Town” favorite “his next song is “probably one of my greatest songs” and saying he wrote it “as an ode to American possibility … both to the beautiful but flawed country that we are, and to the country that we could be. Now, right now, we are living through incredibly critical times. The United States, the ideals and the values for which it stood for the past 250 years, is being tested as it has never been in modern times. Those values and those ideals have never been as endangered as they are right now.”
He continued, “So as we gather tonight in this beautiful display of love and care and thoughtfulness and community … if you believe in democracy, in liberty … if you believe that truth still matters, and that it’s worth speaking out, and it’s worth fighting for … if you believe in the power of the law and that no one stands above it … if you stand against heavily armed masked federal troops invading American cities, and using Gestapo tactics against our fellow citizens … if you believe you don’t deserve to be murdered for exercising your American right to protest … then send a message to this President.”
That message, he continued, was that “as the mayor of that city has said, ICE should get the fuck out of Minneapolis. So this one is for you, and the memory of the mother of three and American citizen Renee Good.”
Although Springsteen’s appearance at the Count Basie Center for the Arts in Red Bank, NJ was unadvertised, it was widely expected, or at least hoped for, as the musician has often appeared at the Light of Day Foundation’s Winterfest series of concerts, which benefit research for Parkinson’s disease. His friend Joe Grushecky’s Houserockers were the backing band for the evening, as they typically are for these benefits. Saturday’s show also featured guest turns from Gary U.S. Bonds, Willie Nile, Goo Goo Dolls frontman Johnny Rzeznik and Adam Weiner of Low Cut Connie.
Among the other songs performed during the hour-plus set he fronted, according to NJ.com, were the rarely performed “Lucky Town,” “Darkness on the Edge of Town” and full-band versions of two songs that are fresh on fans’ minds from the recent “Nebraska” boxed set, “Atlantic City” and “Johnny 99.”
It is no surprise to find Springsteen at odds with President Donald J. Trump, who has responded angrily to the rock superstar’s on-stage comments about his divisive actions. On an overseas tour that wrapped up last summer, Springsteen spoke out on a nightly basis, calling the current administation ““corrupt, incompetent and treasonous.”
In an interview with the New York Times in June, Springsteen called the current situation under Trump “an American tragedy… I think that it was the combination of the deindustrialization of the country and then the incredible increase in wealth disparity that left so many people behind. It was ripe for a demagogue. And while I can’t believe it was this moron that came along, he fit the bill for some people.” He added that “what we’ve been living through … is things that we all said, ‘This can’t happen here. This will never happen in America.’ And here we are.”
Trump has not yet responded to Springsteen’s latest remarks, but he took to his Truth Social account last year after learning of the rocker’s remarks on tour, writing: “I see that Highly Overrated Bruce Springsteen goes to a Foreign Country to speak badly about the President of the United States. Never liked him, never liked his music, or his Radical Left Politics and, importantly, he’s not a talented guy — Just a pushy, obnoxious JERK … This dried out ‘prune’ of a rocker (his skin is all atrophied!) ought to KEEP HIS MOUTH SHUT.”
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Even the greats aren’t immune to petty theft (or simple accidents).
Just weeks before the start of the Winter Olympics, American ski racing star Lindsey Vonn revealed to her thousands of followers on X that she needed help finding a piece of her equipment: her ski pole.
“Someone took my pole in the parking lot today in Tarvisio,” she wrote, referencing the Italian locale where two women’s World Cup races are scheduled for the coming days. “If you have seen it please respond to this. Thank you.”
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Lindsey Vonn’s missing ski pole.
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The Leki pole in question is hot pink and green and has a distinctive “L.V.” signature on the inside of the strap. One member of the set appeared to join Vonn recently on the podium in Val d’Isere, France.
Alice Robinson of Team New Zealand takes 2nd place, Sofia Goggia of Team Italy takes 1st place, Lindsey Vonn of Team United States takes 3rd place during the Audi FIS Alpine Ski World Cup Women’s Super G on December 21, 2025 in Val d’Isere, France.
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One commenter, who perhaps doesn’t feel sentimental about their own gear, asked Vonn why she was intent on finding the missing pole. After all, the ski racer, who is a global superstar, shouldn’t have a problem finding new equipment. But some gear takes on a life of its own.
“They are 10 years old. They are special to me,” Vonn replied.
The search for the pole comes amid Vonn’s surprising and unprecedented ski racing comeback.
In 2019, she retired from ski racing after a standout career. Then, last winter, at age 40, she returned to the course. Her season ended in Sun Valley, Idaho, where she placed second in the super-G, becoming the oldest woman to stand on a FIS Alpine World Cup podium. It was her first time cracking the top three in the World Cup that winter.
More success followed this season, where, after competing in six events, Vonn claimed five podiums. Her worst result so far is a fourth-place finish.
Vonn has officially qualified for the Olympics and appears poised to be a medal favorite when the Winter Games kick off early next month.
Will finding her missing pole help her reach that goal? Hard to say, but it probably wouldn’t hurt.
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