TCR | September 22, 2026 — TGR Hits the Road, Portillo Crosses 1,000cm, and a 10-Year-Old Gets the Carnegie Medal

Published September 22, 2026

September 22, 2026

The Forecast

TGR is on the road

TGR's Actually, It Is Rocket Science premiered in Jackson Hole last Friday night and is already rolling — two shows in Bend tonight, another in Salt Lake City, the Entourage crew ripping Mt. Hood in the latest teaser clip. The premiere tour is live and moving fast. Meanwhile, Portillo just crossed 1,000 centimeters of snowfall for the season. One thousand. That's 33 feet of snow at a resort carved into an Andean pass at 9,350 feet, and the base is still sitting at 279cm with more weather in the forecast. Valle Nevado is at 566cm. The Southern Hemisphere winter of 2026 is no longer historic — it's absurd. Three days out from the Matchstick Productions premiere of The Way Out, film season is fully loaded and the tour buses are fueled. Tuesday's got altitude.

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Fresh Tracks

◆ Powder Magazine

1,000cm and Counting: Portillo's Season Refuses to End

Portillo has now recorded over a thousand centimeters of snowfall this season — more than 33 feet — after a July storm cycle that dumped 508cm in under a week. The yellow hotel keeps getting buried and the season keeps delivering.

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◆ Unofficial Networks

A 10-Year-Old Held His Friend Over a 16-Foot Drop for Four Minutes. Now He Has the Carnegie Medal.

Major Metzger was 10 years old when Bryce Rader slipped completely off a chairlift at a Virginia ski resort. Major grabbed him and held on — for four minutes, dangling — until help arrived. He just received the Carnegie Medal, North America's highest civilian honor for heroism.

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★ Teton Gravity Research

TGR's Entourage Crew Takes on Mt. Hood

Fresh off the Jackson Hole premiere, TGR dropped a clip of the Entourage crew sessioning Mt. Hood from Actually, It Is Rocket Science. The tour hits Bend and SLC tonight. This is the appetizer.

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◆ The Snow League

Team Challengers Win the Inaugural Snow League World Challenge at Cardrona

The experiment worked. The Snow League's team-based halfpipe format — 720 spin cap in semis, one-hit head-to-head battles — crowned Team Challengers at Cardrona. New format, new energy, and proof that competition can still surprise.

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The Edit

The North Face's Yard Time goes inside a maximum-security prison run club — a place where sport isn't recreation, it's survival. The film follows inmates running laps in circles, building discipline out of deprivation, showing up day after day in a system designed to break them down. It's raw, it's human, and it has absolutely nothing to do with skiing — which is exactly why it hits. Off-season or not, the mountain community understands what it means to find meaning in repetition, in showing up when conditions are brutal. This one earns every minute.

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Off-Piste

🎬 Matchstick Productions premieres The Way Out on September 25 — three days from now. MSP's 34th annual ski film. Mark the calendar and find your local screening. powder.com

💰 Salomon is gunning for $3 billion in annual revenue. Parent company Amer Sports laid out an aggressive growth plan for the 79-year-old brand, pushing hard into trail running and lifestyle while keeping ski and snowboard at its core. The question is whether growth at that scale changes the product or just the marketing budget. snowbrains.com

🏠 Big Sky's school district just opened six new affordable homes for teachers and staff — 600 square feet each, built in Great Falls, trucked to a town where a studio apartment costs more than most mortgages. It's a small dent in the mountain-town housing crisis, but it's a real one. snowbrains.com

🐧 The Snow League partnered with a yellow-eyed penguin conservation project during the World Challenge at Cardrona. Team Challengers left more than a trophy behind in New Zealand — they helped fund protection for one of the world's rarest penguin species. thesnowleague.com

Dropping

BLACK CROWS VENA COR vs. LINE SAKANA — STEEP Magazine put these two unconventional carving machines head-to-head for the 26-27 season. The Vena Cor brings Black Crows' aggressive reverse-sidecut philosophy; the Sakana continues LINE's fish-shaped, surf-inspired approach. Both are for skiers who find traditional carving skis boring and want something that pivots, planes, and plays differently than anything else on the mountain. If you're shopping for original frontside equipment, this comparison is the one to read.

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Conditions Check

Chile firing

Valle Nevado at 566cm base, Portillo at 279cm after crossing 1,000cm of season snowfall, La Parva holding at 236cm — the Andes winter of 2026 continues to rewrite the record books. →

Argentina mixed

Las Leñas sits at a solid 234cm base and is skiing well; Chapelco is barely hanging on at 3cm — a tale of two resorts on opposite ends of the coverage spectrum. →

New Zealand thin

Treble Cone is open but reporting just 5cm of base — the Kiwi season is limping toward the finish line after a tough stretch. →

Australia closed

Perisher and Falls Creek show 0cm base — the Aussie season is effectively done, with resorts winding down operations. →

Oregon / Summer thin

Timberline is listed as open but showing 0cm base — Palmer Snowfield summer operations are running on fumes if at all. →

Alps — Summer thin

Zermatt holds 8cm on the glacier and Hintertux is open at 0cm — summer glacier skiing at its most minimal, but the lifts are turning. →

A thousand centimeters. A ten-year-old hero. A premiere tour rolling through the night. Sometimes the sport gives you everything at once.

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