Are the Best Places to Live for Health and Longevity Correlated With Skiing? You now have a new excuse to validate your skiing obsession! While it’s hard to determine exactly what leads to a long, healthy life, we can draw a few conclusions. Life Extension’s latest data life tables provide plenty of data to nerd out on, so here we go. Related: Nature: A Proven Cure to Mental and Physical Health Issues – […] Brains Luke Guilford | April 10, 2023 0 Comments
You Won’t Want to Miss Gaper Day 2023 View this post on Instagram A post shared by Rachel🌲Nature🏃♀️Joy✈️Travel (@rachshredgnar) With April 1st this week, skiers and snowboarders worldwide are preparing for the biggest day of the year—Gaper Day. What is Gaper Day? “Gaper” alludes to the gap between your helmet’s bottom and goggle’s top. The bigger the gap, the bigger “Gaper” you are. Sometimes, Gapers are […] Haleigh Hafner | March 27, 2023 2 Comments
Why Didn’t a Ski Lift/Tram Ever Get Built on Mt. Rainier, WA? Imagine taking a ski lift from Mt. Rainier’s Paradise station at 5,400 ft to the 10,000 ft Camp Muir level where you would have endless terrain to snowboard or ski. One could certainly see why this precise location would be so enticing and attractive to set up a permanent ski lift. You could easily argue that the south part of […] Brains Matthew Oliphant | March 21, 2023 0 Comments
9 Funky ‘Upside Down’ Ski Areas to Put on Your Radar Nope, this is not a list of ski areas in the Upside Down from Stranger Things. An upside-down ski area is when you pull up to the parking lot for a day of skiing and are already at or near the top of the mountain. For mountains on this list, be prepared to have a sick panoramic view as you eat […] Friday Fun Luke Guilford | March 20, 2023 1 Comment
Hometown Mountain Shoutout: Bear Creek, PA – The Perfect Introduction for New Skiers & Riders Growing up in southeast Pennsylvania, skiing wasn’t a popular sport. From my experience, most skiers and riders in the greater mid-Atlantic region can be classified as beginners. Enter Bear Creek Mountain Resort. Bear Creek, located in Lehigh Valley, is really more of a hill rather than a mountain, with a peak elevation of 1,100 ft., 509 ft. vertical drop, 86 […] Industry News Jack Davis | March 20, 2023 0 Comments
A Tour of The 9 Oldest Mountain Ranges on Earth As a little refresher from 2nd grade, mountains generally form in three different ways, all involving plate tectonics. So before we scroll and look at the pretty pictures of the mountains, I am going to do a quick little crash course on how these beautiful creations that we love form. Fold Mountain: Two tectonic plates collide, and the less dense […] Brains Luke Guilford | March 8, 2023 0 Comments
The Battle Between Goggles and Sunglasses for Spring Skiing As Spring inches closer, the weather will start to warm up and the sun will hang out a little bit more. Some of you might already be digging into your slush day gear, cutting down on layers, and replacing them with a little more style. Eventually, you ask yourself, “hmm, do I really need goggles?” “Would I like the extra wind […] Brains Luke Guilford | March 6, 2023 1 Comment
Top 7 Bucket List Ski Resorts According to Our Readers On January 14th SnowBrains asked our readers on Facebook, “What resort should everyone visit before they die?” After 211 comments, the results for the top 7 ski resorts are in! Whistler Blackcomb, BC, Canada Coming in with 8 votes, our readers are big fans of Whistler. Whistler and Blackcomb mountains have an ample amount of skiable terrain for all levels. […] Brains Riley McDonald | February 28, 2023 5 Comments
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