Sights and Sounds From Ski Ballet's First Competition In Nearly 30 Years

This story originally appeared in the print magazine POWDER 2026 Photo Annual. Copies are still available while supplies last. Click here to get yours.Ballet is Back!Kathryn Wadsworth is dressed as a butterfly. More precisely, the Event Manager at Monarch Mountain Ski resort is in a monarch butterfly costume, made of lift tower pads she says were stitched together by “our tower-pad guy.” It’s a befitting look, considering we are watching a ski discipline kno