TCR | September 01, 2026 — Indy Pass Blows Past 300 Resorts, LINE Drops Its 2027 Film, and Sage Cattabriga-Alosa Gaps a Crevasse

Published September 01, 2026

September 01, 2026

The Forecast

September arrives loaded

Sage Cattabriga-Alosa threading a spine line into a crevasse gap is the kind of clip that makes you set your coffee down and watch it three more times — and TGR just dropped it as a teaser from Actually, It Is Rocket Science, which hits the road September 19th. That's real, named, dated, and properly terrifying. Meanwhile, Indy Pass just announced it's adding 50-plus new resorts for 2026-27, blowing past the 300-resort mark and reopening sales after selling out last year — a genuine shot across the bow of the mega-pass industrial complex. The Andes refuse to slow down: Valle Nevado is still holding at 533 centimeters, Portillo at 295cm, La Parva at 251cm. Snow showed up on the high peaks of Western Canada over the weekend, because August had one more trick up its sleeve. September is here. Film season is live. The southern winter is fat. Let's go.

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Fresh Tracks

◆ Powder Magazine

Indy Pass Blows Past 300 Resorts and Reopens Sales

After selling out last season, Indy Pass is back on sale with 50-plus new mountains joining the network — pushing the total past 300 for the first time. It's the indie-mountain coalition's biggest flex yet, and a reminder that not everything in skiing needs to funnel through Vail or Alterra.

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★ TGR

TGR Looks Back at Where It All Started — 16mm at Grand Targhee in 1995

With premiere tour tickets on sale and the 31st film about to hit the road, TGR dropped a short looking back at The Continuum — their first-ever film, shot on 16mm at Grand Targhee. Thirty years and a lot of spines later, the DNA is still the same.

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◆ InTheSnow

Snow Already Showing Up on Canadian Peaks

Fresh snowfall on the high terrain along the Alberta-BC border — Sunshine near Banff, Kicking Horse — is generating the kind of social media engagement that makes people start waxing skis in the garage. Late August snowfall isn't unusual up there, but it hits different when film teasers are dropping.

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◆ Stab Magazine

The Swatch Nines Goes Surfing — and It Actually Works

The Nines — born as a freeski event in 2008 — pivoted to surfing, and somehow it wasn't a disaster. Stab breaks down how the session-based, creative-expression format translated to waves, and why skeptics had to eat their words.

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The Edit

LINE Skis just dropped their 2027 annual film, and it's exactly what you'd expect from the crew that's been skiing the wrong way since 1995 — which is to say, it's creative, irreverent, and full of the kind of terrain usage that makes traditional ski instructors twitch. This is LINE's bread and butter: park, pow, urban, and everything in between, cut with the energy of a team that treats every feature like a suggestion rather than a rule. If you've been waiting for the ski film floodgates to open, consider them cracked.

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Off-Piste

🏔️ Australia's Hotham Alpine Resort has called it — September 6th will be the final day of lift ops for the 2026 season. A rough winter down under means an early curtain call. Unofficial Networks

💧 4.2 million gallons of untreated sewage just spilled into the Arkansas River near Pueblo, Colorado. Colorado Parks and Wildlife is warning visitors at John Martin Reservoir State Park to avoid all direct water contact. Ski towns downstream are paying attention. Unofficial Networks

🏃 Nick Fowler just set the men's overall and self-supported Pacific Crest Trail FKT, resetting the record on one of the most punishing long-distance routes in North America. The PCT speed record scene has been on fire this summer. iRunFar

🎿 Downdays is launching its second season of curated freeride trips — three exclusive experiences to some of the best powder destinations on the planet, built around the community rather than the resort. Downdays

Conditions Check

Chile firing

Valle Nevado holding at a monstrous 533cm base, Portillo at 295cm, La Parva at 251cm — the Andes winter refuses to quit. →

Argentina mixed

Las Leñas is riding a solid 234cm base, but Chapelco is scraping by at just 13cm — coverage varies wildly across the border. →

New Zealand thin

Treble Cone is open but managing on a 15cm base — it's been a tough winter across the Southern Alps and they're making it work with what they've got. →

Australia mixed

Perisher leads with a 61cm base, Falls Creek is open on 18cm, and Thredbo is showing 0cm — Hotham just announced September 6th as closing day, which tells you everything. →

Oregon / Summer thin

Timberline is open on the Palmer Snowfield with a 0cm reported base — summer glacier skiing at its most committed. →

Alps — Summer thin

Zermatt is open on an 8cm base, Hintertux at 0cm — glacier operations are minimal and reserved mostly for race teams and the truly devoted. →

September 1st. The ski films are starting. The Andes are bottomless. Your legs are not ready. Fix two of those three.

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