TCR | October 09, 2026 — Valle Nevado Plans to Overlap With Colorado Openings, Snow Hits the Alps, and Salomon's Two-Year Snowboard Project Drops

Published October 09, 2026

October 09, 2026

The Forecast

Valle Nevado plans to overlap with Colorado openings

Valle Nevado just announced it's staying open through November 8 — the latest closing date in the resort's history — which means Chilean lifts could be spinning on the same day A-Basin or Loveland fires up first chair in Colorado. Let that sink in: hemispheres overlapping, winter to winter, no gap. The base at Valle Nevado is 691 centimeters. That's nearly 23 feet of snow. Portillo's at 361cm, La Parva at 259cm, and the Andes winter of 2026 simply will not quit. Meanwhile, fresh snow dusted the Alps overnight — peaks across Austria, France, Italy, and Switzerland going white down to 1,600 meters — and Faction's film tour premiere is tomorrow. Salomon Snowboards just dropped the teaser for Shiver Creek, a two-year global project, and the FWT revealed a 2027 ski roster that reads like a greatest-hits compilation. Friday has layers.

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Fresh Tracks

◆ Powder Magazine

Valle Nevado Could Still Be Open When Colorado Fires Up Its Lifts

After 691cm of snow and a winter that refused to follow the script, Valle Nevado is pushing its closing date to November 8 — potentially overlapping with North American opening days. Two hemispheres, one continuous ski season.

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◆ InTheSnow

Fresh Snow Across the Alps — October Is Already Delivering

Peaks across Austria, France, Italy, and Switzerland woke up white this morning, with snow down to 1,600m. Seven glacier areas are spinning lifts. October just cleared its throat.

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◆ Snowboard Mag

Salomon Snowboards Drops the Shiver Creek Teaser — Two Years in the Making

Tommy Gesme, Louif Paradis, Emma Crosby, and a deep roster spent two years circling the globe stacking clips for Salomon's next full-length project. Directed by Bryden Bowley. The teaser just landed, and the premiere tour dates are live.

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★ TGR

TGR's Lost Cache Is Coming to Boston

A camera left on a glacier 80 years ago by Bradford Washburn. Griffin Post, Jeremy Jones, and Robin Van Gyn going after it. Special screening plus filmmaker conversation at the Museum of Science, October 20.

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The Edit

Red Bull Rampage's women's competition is here, and the footage out of Virgin, Utah is as raw and committed as the sport gets. The best female freeride mountain bikers on the planet building and sending custom lines down desert terrain that doesn't forgive mistakes — drops, exposure, creativity on an unforgiving canvas. This is the event that keeps pushing the ceiling for women's freeride, and every year the lines get bigger, the riding gets more precise, and the argument for equal billing gets harder to ignore.

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Off-Piste

🏔️ The Freeride World Tour just unveiled its 2027 ski roster, and the lineup is stacked — former champions returning alongside hungry qualifiers. Downdays is calling it the heaviest roster ever, and they might be right. Source

🏂 CAPiTA and Union dropped Super Sync Vol 2 — Mia Brookes, Miles Fallon, Joey Fava, and crew on a road trip that involves a masked crusader, a hacked group chat, and the kind of snowboarding that makes you want to quit your job. Source

⛷️ FIS has confirmed the 2026-27 Alpine World Cup calendar: 43 men's races across 21 venues, 40 women's races across 20 resorts, and 21 races in North America. The schedule is set. Source

🇳🇿 Mt. Hutt in New Zealand just announced a NZ$12 million base area expansion — new sun deck, food and beverage spaces, and retail — with construction this summer and completion before the 2027 season. The operations manager kicked it off with a sledgehammer. Source

Conditions Check

Chile firing

Valle Nevado at a staggering 691cm base and open through November 8; Portillo holds 361cm; La Parva at 259cm — the deepest Andes season in memory keeps delivering. →

Argentina mixed

Las Leñas still holding a solid 234cm base; Chapelco essentially done at 3cm — it's a tale of two resorts south of the border. →

New Zealand closed

Treble Cone showing 0cm base despite being listed as open — season is winding down hard across the South Island. →

Australia closed

Perisher closed, Thredbo and Falls Creek at 0cm — the Australian season is in the rearview mirror. →

Oregon / Summer thin

Timberline listed as open with 0cm reported base — Palmer Snowfield may be offering limited summer laps but don't expect much. →

Alps — Summer mixed

Fresh snow across the Alps overnight; Zermatt open with 8cm base on glacier terrain, Hintertux open at 0cm — glacier skiing is thin but the October snowfall is a promising sign. →

Twenty-three feet of snow at Valle Nevado. Colorado opens in six days. Winter isn't coming — it never left.

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