Martin Kuprianowicz

Skier, storyteller, and Editor-in-Chief at SnowBrains.

Mount Superior in Little Cottonwood Canyon, UT, to Get New Avalanche Control Towers Next Season, Replacing Artillery Usage

Mount Superior in Utah’s Little Cottonwood Canyon is going to look a bit different next winter.  Beginning this month, the Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT) will be transitioning from using military artillery to a more advanced and safer method for controlling avalanches in Little Cottonwood Canyon. KUTV reports that starting July 8, UDOT will start installing 16 Wyssen Avalanche Towers […]
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How to Help the Thousands of Residents Affected by Devastating Wildfires That Have Burned Down a Beautiful New Mexico Ski Town

Within the first 48 hours, the Ruidoso wildfires had claimed over 1,400 structures in Lincoln County that were people’s homes and livelihoods. The human-caused South Fork and Salt fires, which started on Monday morning, June 17, have since cumulatively burned 25,367 acres and 1,400 structures, leaving one person dead. As I write this, my own father’s home in Ruidoso’s Alpine Village […]
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Trip Report: 10,358′ South Sister Volcano – South Face | Three Sisters Wilderness, OR

Report from Thursday, June 6, 2024 Driving north from Mount Shasta, having failed to reach the volcano’s summit, I was itching for another shot as I crossed state lines.  The Cascade Line reared its bony spine out my driver’s side window; miles of low, rolling, seemingly unexciting forest were interrupted every so often by a massive snow-capped volcano that rudely […]
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