TCR | July 28, 2026 — TGR Drops Tickets, Plattekill Drops Dynamite

July 28, 2026

The Forecast

Film season is coming

The Andes are fat and getting fatter. Valle Nevado is sitting on a 368cm base — that's twelve feet of snow under your skis, the kind of mid-season depth that makes you forget it's July anywhere else on Earth. Portillo's at 269cm, La Parva at 226cm, and Las Leñas across the border is holding 208cm of its own. This is one of the best South American winters in recent memory, full stop. Meanwhile, the Northern Hemisphere is doing what it does in late July: burning. Wildfires are chewing through North Cascades National Park and the Scottish Cairngorms, because apparently no mountain range is safe from the smoke. But the real signal today came from Jackson Hole — TGR just dropped tickets for their 31st annual film tour, which means the countdown to film season has officially begun. Three weeks until teaser trailers start hitting. The smell of popcorn and chairlift grease is in the air.

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Fresh Tracks

◆ Powder Magazine

Plattekill Is Literally Blowing Up a Trail for Next Season

Plattekill Mountain in New York's Catskills went full quarry operation, using explosives to widen a popular run for next season. Some trails are carved by nature. This one got the TNT treatment.

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◆ Teton Gravity Research

TGR's 31st Film Tour Tickets Are Live — Mark Your Calendar

Three decades of ski and snowboard cinema and counting. TGR just opened ticket sales for their fall tour, kicking off September 15. Thirty-one years of ski and snowboard cinema. If you've been waiting for the unofficial start of winter, this is it.

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★ TGR / @sjo.de.wit

Sand Dune Backflip on Skis — Because Summer Demands It

@sjo.de.wit launched a full backflip off a sand dune on skis, shot by @jhonny.sand. Proof that the off-season is a state of mind, not a calendar entry.

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◆ Mountain Gazette

Mountain Gazette: Be Angry About What's Happening to Public Lands

A 90% reduction of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase Escalante — three million acres gone. Doug Schnitzspahn channels Teddy Roosevelt and Edward Abbey to argue that anger is the only rational response.

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The Edit

Red Bull District Ride returned to the Netherlands after a four-year hiatus, taking over Groningen's Grote Markt with a massive custom-built urban slopestyle course. Alma Wiggberg claimed the inaugural women's crown while the men's field threw down on a course that turned a centuries-old city square into a freeride playground. The top moments reel captures the controlled chaos of riders threading lines through medieval architecture — the kind of thing that makes you rethink what a bike can do in a city center.

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Off-Piste

⛷️ Arapahoe Basin is proposing expanded parking, new snowmaking infrastructure, and remote avalanche control systems — all aimed at managing the early-season crush when A-Basin is one of the only games in town. Powder

🏔️ West Mountain, a small ski area near Lake George in upstate New York, is pushing forward with a base village development plan that could significantly expand the resort's footprint. Proof that the growth game isn't just for the megaresorts. Unofficial Networks

🔥 Two wildfires continue to burn in North Cascades National Park despite cooler temps and a chance of rain. The Border 2 Fire alone is estimated at 1,255 acres with full suppression crews deployed. Unofficial Networks

🧗 Nat Bailey ticked the fourth ascent of Crack of Destiny (5.14b trad) in Squamish — one of the gnarliest crack climbs in British Columbia. The Squamish local has been quietly assembling a résumé of the area's hardest trad lines. Gripped

Dropping

Astral TR1 Merge 2.0 Amphibious Boot — If your summer involves packrafting, canyoneering, or any pursuit where your feet are going to get thoroughly soaked, this is the move. The TR1 Merge 2.0 is a mesh hiking boot designed for wet environments with fast drainage and quick dry times, plus Astral's signature sticky rubber that actually grips on wet rock. It's a niche boot for a specific kind of unhinged summer adventure — and it does that job better than anything else out there.

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Conditions Check

Chile firing

Valle Nevado holds a monster 368cm base, Portillo at 269cm, La Parva at 226cm — this is one of the deepest mid-winter stacks in years across the central Andes. →

Argentina mixed

Las Leñas is sitting pretty at 208cm, but Chapelco is scraping by on just 10cm — a tale of two cordilleras. →

New Zealand thin

Treble Cone reports just 5cm of base and an optimistic 'open' sign — patience required, the Southern Alps need a proper storm cycle. →

Australia mixed

Falls Creek leads the way with a 36cm base and open terrain, while Perisher and Thredbo sit at 0cm — the Aussie season needs reinforcements. →

Oregon / Summer thin

Timberline shows 0cm base but may still have limited Palmer Snowfield summer operations — check before driving up. →

Alps — Summer thin

Zermatt and Hintertux are technically open for glacier skiing but running on fumes — 0-3cm of base with summer-only terrain. →

Twelve feet of base in Chile. Film tour tickets on sale. Dynamite going off at a Catskill ski hill. Tell me again that this is the off-season.

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