Parts of ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Were Filmed Near Lake Tahoe Set to hit theaters this Friday, ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ comes more than 30 years after the original ‘Top Gun’ that was released in 1986. Parts of the new film were actually filmed in the Tahoe, California, area. A few flight scenes were shot in South Lake Tahoe and Meyers in 2018, according to the Tahoe Art Haus Cinema website. The Tahoe […] Industry News SnowBrains | May 25, 2022 1 Comment
VIDEO: US Navy Aircraft Involved in ‘Top Gun’ Style Inverted Maneuver With Russian Fighter Jet In a move reminiscent of the famous Top Gun ‘…because I was inverted‘ scene, the US Navy is reporting that one of their surveillance aircraft flying in international airspace was intercepted by a Russian fighter jet that flew within 25-feet of the US P-8A Poseidon plane in an “unsafe” high-speed, inverted maneuver. “The interaction was determined to be unsafe due to […] SnowBrains | April 18, 2020 1 Comment
TOP GUN: The 3 Award Winning Women’s Skis of 2016 [this article is sponsored by evo.com] Top Gun = the Best of the Best. These are the sexiest, tower-buzzingest Women’s Skis on the market as decided by the most reputable sources in the industry who put in the energy to test every 2016 Women’s Ski out there. We’ve aggregated the 3 Top Gun Women’s Skis of 2016 according to the […] Gear Sponsored | December 29, 2015 0 Comments
TOP GUN: The 2 Award Winning Snowboard Boots of 2016 [this article is sponsored by evo.com] Top Gun = the Best of the Best. These are the knee-savingist, sexiest, tower-buzzingest Snowboard Boots on the market as decided by the most reputable sources in the industry who put in the energy to test every 2016 Ski Bindings out there. We’ve aggregated the 3 Top Gun Snowboard Boots of 2016 according to […] Gear Sponsored | December 16, 2015 0 Comments
TOP GUN: The 3 Award Winning Ski Bindings of 2016 [this article is sponsored by evo.com] Top Gun = the Best of the Best. These are the knee-savingist, sexiest, tower-buzzingest Ski Bindings on the market as decided by the most reputable sources in the industry who put in the energy to test every 2016 Ski Bindings out there. We’ve aggregated the 3 Top Gun Ski Bindings of 2016 according to […] Gear Sponsored | December 10, 2015 1 Comment
TOP GUN: The 3 Award Winning Snowboards of 2016 [this article is sponsored by evo.com] Top Gun = the Best of the Best. These are the slashingest, sexiest, tower-buzzingest Snowboards on the market as decided by the most reputable sources in the industry who put in the energy to test every 2016 Snowboard out there. We’ve aggregated the 3 Top Gun Snowborads of 2016 according to the industry’s highest […] Gear Sponsored | December 4, 2015 2 Comments
TOP GUN: The 3 Award Winning Goggles of 2016 [this article is sponsored by evo.com] Top Gun = the Best of the Best. These are the nastiest, sexiest, tower-buzzingest Goggles on the market as decided by the most reputable sources in the industry who put in the energy to test every 2016 Goggle out there. We’ve aggregated the 3 Top Gun Goggles of 2016 according to the industry’s highest […] Gear Sponsored | November 28, 2015 4 Comments
TOP GUN: The 3 Award Winning Ski Boots of 2016 [this article is sponsored by evo.com] Top Gun = the Best of the Best. These are the burliest, sexiest, tower-buzzingest Ski Boots on the market as decided by the most reputable sources in the industry who put in the energy to test every 2016 Ski Boot out there. We’ve aggregated the 3 Top Gun Ski Boots of 2016 according to […] Gear Sponsored | November 19, 2015 3 Comments
TOP GUN: The 4 Award Winning Ski Jackets of 2016 [this article is sponsored by evo.com] Top Gun = the Best of the Best. These are the strongest, sexiest, tower-buzzingest Ski Jackets on the market as decided by the most reputable sources in the industry who put in the energy to test every 2016 Ski Jacket out there. We’ve aggregated the 4 Top Gun Ski Jackets of 2016 according to […] Gear Sponsored | November 12, 2015 5 Comments
TOP GUN: The 5 Award Winning Men’s All-Mountain Skis of 2016 [this article is sponsored by evo.com] Top Gun = the Best of the Best. These are the strongest, fastest, tower-buzzingest All-Mountain Skis on the market as decided by the most reputable sources in the industry who put in the energy to test every 2016 All-Mountain Ski out there. We’ve aggregated the 5 Top Gun All-Mountain Skis of 2016 according to […] Gear Sponsored | November 7, 2015 6 Comments
TOP GUN: The 5 Award Winning Men’s Powder Skis of 2016 [this article is sponsored by evo.com] Top Gun = the Best of the Best.  These are the biggest, baddest, burliest Powder Skis on the market as decided by the most reputable sources in the industry who put in the energy to test every 2015 powder ski out there. We’ve aggregated the 5 Top Gun Powder Skis of 2015 according […] Gear Sponsored | October 29, 2015 13 Comments
TOP GUN: The 2 Award Winning Snowboard Boots of 2015 Nothing beats a powder day on a snowboard. Slashes, cutbacks, floaters, ollies, and pig-dogs. Powder on a snowboard is nothing but pure pleasure. Snowboarding has been given a lot of the credit for the new freeskiing movement. Snowboarding influenced freeskiing’s style, tricks, and ski shapes and it’s true. Snowboarding has always been progressive and cutting edge and it’s made everyone better as it rolls along. The snowboard boots listed below will help snowboarding continue to influence and up the ante of the snow sliding world. […] Gear SnowBrains | December 16, 2014 0 Comments
TOP GUN: The 3 Award Winning Goggles of 2015 Goggles are one of the most important pieces of gear in skiing and riding. Without good goggles, you aren’t seeing as well as you potentially could and if your vision isn’t as good as it could be, your riding won’t be as good as it could be. So clearly, you want good goggles. Goggles are also the single biggest cool factor in skiing and riding. A sharp pair of goggles will get you a lot of fun comments on the hill and make you look like you know what you’re doing. There’s something exciting and mysterious about mirrored goggles, isn’t there. It’s like that guy/gal knows something that you don’t… […] Gear SnowBrains | December 10, 2014 0 Comments
TOP GUN: The 3 Award Winning Snowboards of 2015 Nothing beats a powder day on a snowboard. Slashes, cutbacks, floaters, ollies, and pig-dogs. Powder on a snowboard is nothing but pure pleasure. Snowboarding has been given a lot of the credit for the new freeskiing movement. Supposedly, snowboarding influenced freeskiing’s style, tricks, and ski shapes and it’s true. Snowboarding has always been progressive and cutting edge and it’s made everyone better as it rolls along. The boards listed below will help snowboarding continue to influence and up the ante of the snow sliding world. […] Gear SnowBrains | December 2, 2014 0 Comments
TOP GUN: The 4 Award Winning Women’s Skis of 2015 In case you haven’t noticed it yet, girls are different than boys. Thank god. Not only are they better looking and smarter, but they ski different, move different, and are built different. For years, the ski industry tried to address these differences by painting pretty pictures on men’s skis and calling them women’s skis. That didn’t work. Now, some actual science has come into this and women’s skis have evolved brilliantly. Women’s skis now have women specific flex patterns, shapes, and sizes. All this adds up to women’s skis that help women rip even harder than ever before. […] Gear SnowBrains | November 25, 2014 2 Comments
TOP GUN: The 3 Award Winning Ski Bindings of 2015 As ski technology and shape changes – and it’s been changing fast – bindings have to morph and evolve to keep up. Wider skis means wider bindings. Wider bindings leads to more control and more power transfer to your ski. You’ve got to have ski bindings. There’s no other way to attache yourself to skis. Always make sure your bindings are mounted and adjusted correctly. Bindings are the one fundamental piece of ski equipment you have that is truly safety gear. You don’t want them to come off too early and you don’t want to them to stay on too long. Both situations can lead to hard falls and bad injuries. You need a binding you can trust. […] Gear SnowBrains | November 18, 2014 2 Comments
TOP GUN: The 3 Award Winning Ski Jackets of 2015 Lets face it. Your ski jacket is the gear that will be noticed most by your friends and passersby. So, you want it to look cool. Dig down past a ski jacket’s skin deep appearance and you’ll realize that this is the one piece of gear between you being cold, wet, and miserable and you being warm, dry, and happy. A quality ski jacket is a must in the mountains and it certainly doesn’t hurt if drags some style along with it. Check out these award winning ski jackets for an ideas of what’s hot – both literally and figuratively – in 2015. OnTheSnow.com gave their Editors’ Choice Award to 10 Ski Jackets skis this year, but the Patagonia Women’s Snowbelle Jacket got […] Gear SnowBrains | November 11, 2014 0 Comments
TOP GUN: The 6 Award Winning All-Mountain Skis of 2015 The one quiver ski? The everyday ski? The ski that can do it all? Sounds too good to be true, doesn’t it? In this day and age, it isn’t. There are some beefy all mountain skis out there that you can ski everyday. Especially if you go a bit shorter in length, these things will even hit the park. The only conditions these ski might not be perfectly perfect for is extremely deep powder. For those riduculously deep days, it’s good to have an obnoxiously large powder ski. Unfortunately, those stupidly deep days only come so often and for just about all other days, these award winning all mountain skis will do the trick. […] Gear SnowBrains | November 4, 2014 1 Comment
Top Gun: The 3 Industry Award Winning Ski Boots of 2015 Question: “What is the most important piece of ski gear in skiing?” Answer: “Your boots” Why are ski boots the most important piece of in skiing? Because your boots are the only thing that actually touch your body. They are the adaptor between you and your ski. If your boots are low quality, your skiing will be as well. If you boots are loose, your feet will be moving and your ski will not. That foot motion won’t translate to ski motion and your sweet moves will be lost in translation. So, […] Gear SnowBrains | October 27, 2014 3 Comments
Top Gun: The Six Industry Award Winning Powder Skis of 2015 2015 has already brought us a plethora of big, fat, burly powder skis. There’s literally dozens of these things, so how do we know which are the best of the best? The most efficient way to know which Powder Skis are the best is to compile all the Powder Skis that won awards from reputable sources who put in the energy to test every 2015 powder ski out there. Just Freeskier alone tested over 350 skis last year. We’ve aggregated the 5 best powder skis of 2015 according to the industries highest awards for you and displayed them here. These are the best of the best. The top guns of […] Gear SnowBrains | October 22, 2014 3 Comments
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