[VIDEO] Is Pipeline Couloir at Snowbird Utah’s Most Dangerous Run? Only 100 People a Year Ski This Line Peak Rankings discusses the Pipeline Couloir at Snowbird, Utah, considered one of Utah’s most dangerous ski runs. Known for its steepness and challenging access, the narrators share their experience attempting to ski this exclusive trail, detailing their preparations, the difficult hike to reach the entrance, and the perilous rock scramble they faced before finally descending the run. Despite the risks […] SnowBrains | October 4, 2024 0 Comments
Trip Report: Snowbird, UT | “Pipeline Couloir” Report from June 5, 2024 Yesterday was my last ski day of the Northern Hemisphere winter. Ski day #190. Ski day #463 of the past 546 days. I’ve been skiing 6 days per week for 17 months straight (78 weeks). I’m exhausted… 11,489′ American Fork Twin Peak, UT “Pipeline Couloir” Details Summit (actually a notch): 11,300′ Car: 7,900′ Vertical From Car: […] Conditions Report Miles Clark | June 6, 2024 0 Comments
Trip Report: Snowbird, UT – “Pipeline Couloir” on July 21, 2023 Report from July 21, 2023 “Pipeline Couloir” at Snowbird, UT yesterday was a buck-wild adventure ski! Maybe the best adventure skiing I’ve ever had anywhere… Rockfalls, waterfalls, evil melted-out black bomb holes, second-thought-inducing steeps, convoluted/corrugated snow, violent pitch changes, unholy spine-chokes, a large rocky waterfall mid-chute, and more rocks-embedded-in-snow than you can shake a stick at. I actually removed about […] Conditions Report Miles Clark | July 24, 2023 2 Comments
“Zombie Pipeline” Brought Back From the Dead Brought back to life with a new funding partner, the Green Water Pipeline project hopes to bring water supply from Utah’s Green River down to Colorado’s Front Range. When pursuing a master’s degree in the mid-2000s in resource economics and agriculture at Colorado State University, Aaron Million started turning the gears in his brain with late nights in the library […] Brains Sarah Stern | June 28, 2022 8 Comments
Snowbird, UT, Report: The Taunting “Pipeline Couloir” Report from Monday, May 23, 2022 High noon and hot, the corn window had just closed. I was skiing heavy but exciting slush in Snowbird’s taunting Pipeline Couloir—a line everyone sees but almost nobody skis. The top section was steep and got my blood pumping. My legs were already screaming a hundred feet down it. Pipeline Couloir – Snowbird, UT […] Conditions Report Martin Kuprianowicz | May 23, 2022 2 Comments
Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Pipeline to Cross Underneath Appalachian Trail After a strenuous and drawn-out legal battle, the Supreme Court ruled Monday in favor of a pipeline company to construct a new 600-mile natural gas pipeline that would cross underneath the Appalachian Trail on federal land. Related: Get Paid to Drink Beer and Hike the Appalachian Trail NPR News reports that The 7-2 decision overturned one part of a lower court […] SnowBrains | June 17, 2020 0 Comments
Trip Report: Snowbird, UT – “Pipeline” Today, May 18th 2020, I strolled up Snowbird ski resort in Utah to ski a chute called “Pipeline”. I, like many others, have been staring at this chute for years, but it’s almost never open. “One of the more gawked at and obvious lines at Snowbird and the Wasatch, for that matter.” – Andrew McLean in “The Chuting Gallery“ “Pipeline” […] Trip Report Miles Clark | May 19, 2020 1 Comment
Ruptured Pipeline Spills 40,000-Liters of Crude Oil Into an Alberta Creek The Alberta Energy Regulator is reporting a pipeline has spilled 40,000 liters of crude oil into a creek. The regulator says on its website that the incident happened Thursday on a Bonterra Energy Corp. line 14 kilometres south of Drayton Valley, Alta. Related: Crews Begin Clean-Up of 800,000 Gallons of Oil and Water Dumped in a California Canyon It says the […] SnowBrains | August 19, 2019 1 Comment