Friday Fun: World Record Mountain Bike Front Flip Whoa. This is impressive. You can tell how big this front flip was by how much the guy flips out after landing it. It clearly meant a lot. Have you seen a bigger front flip on a bike? “Did Tom van Steenbergen stomp the biggest front flip in mountain bike history? Watch the video from Tom’s Sony Action Cam, shot during production of Teton Gravity Research & Anthill Film’s new movie, UNREAL. Coming Summer 2015.” – TGR […] SnowBrains | July 25, 2014 0 Comments
Telluride, CO Conditions Report Video: Summer Corn Harvest A Telluride crew went out this week and got in some quality summer skiing at Telluride ski resort in Colorado. Conditions were approximately what you’d expect this time of year. We aren’t from Telluride, but it looks like they still have a ton of snow down there considering it’s nearly August. This edit is straightforward enough. If it wasn’t for the cheesy tunes, you might not even realize that Telluride ski resort made the video. “It’s the middle of the summer, and all we can think […] Conditions Report SnowBrains | July 24, 2014 0 Comments
NOAA Satellite Imagery: California = The Golden-BROWN State… The historic California drought is now 3 years old and the numbers are starting to add up. It’s not looking good for California. “Eleven of the past fifteen years have been drier than normal, with the past three years delivering about 45 percent of normal rain and snowpack in Southern California. This follows two of the wettest decades in California’s history—the 1980s and 1990s […] Weather SnowBrains | July 24, 2014 0 Comments
Throwback Thursday: The History of the 1960 Winter Olympic Games at Squaw Valley USA The 1960 Winter Olympic Games at Squaw Valley, CA, were special for California and the United States for a multitude of reasons, first and fore most, it was the first Winter Olympic Games ever held in the Americas. Alex Cushing completed the impossible by convincing the IOC that the winter olympic […] Jesse Cassidy | July 24, 2014 1 Comment
El Nino 2014 Update for North America from NOAA: El Nino is most likely still on its way to North America in 2014/15 but it may not be as strong as once predicted. NOAA is now favoring this El Nino to be weak-to-moderate. We are currently in an El Nino Watch, which means that “conditions are favorable for the development of El Niño or La Niña conditions within the next six months.” Right now, NOAA is giving El Nino an 80% chance of happening this winter in North America. Below is some very technical speak about where El Nino is right now and what the chances are it will happen in North America this winter. This quote sums up all you really need to know:[…] Weather SnowBrains | July 23, 2014 0 Comments
Avalanche Warning Issued for Australia Today: Just yesterday, the New South Wales National Parks and WIldlife Service in Australia issued an avalanche warning for the Kosciuszko National Park (which holds Australia’s highest peak, Mt. Kosciuszko, at 7,310 ft). Avalanches are more rare in Australia than in Europe and North America, but not unheard of. Two snowboarders lost their lives in an avalanche in Australia earlier this month. We’ve never seen an avalanche warning issued, so things must […] Avalanche SnowBrains | July 23, 2014 0 Comments
Go To Argentina & Get 33% More Money Free Right Now | 1 USD = 12.4 Black Market Pesos… The official exchange rate right now is at 1 US Dollar = 8.1 Argentine Pesos. This is a good exchange considering only 5 years ago the exchange was 1 usd = 3.5 pesos. So, no matter what, you’re richer in Argentina than you are in the USA. Then, you have to consider that Argentina’s black market (they call it the blue market) exchange rate is […] Industry News Miles Clark | July 23, 2014 4 Comments
Red Bull/MSP’s 2-Year Movie Trailer: “Days of My Youth” Red Bull & MSP just released their latest trailer for their 2-year movie project: “Days of My Youth”. This won’t be their last trailer for this movie. The trailer is OK, but might be about 1:30 too long. There is no skiing at all in the trailer until the 1:25 minute mark. There is a line at the end that is some sort of long, skinny, tunnel chute that is very cool. It does seem since Sherpa Cinema’s “All. I. Can.” and the explosion of internet ski porn that people now have to have a story associated with their ski movie. MSP hasn’t done a storyline style ski movie […] Featured Video SnowBrains | July 22, 2014 2 Comments
Two Avalanches Kill Four Climbers in Switzerland on Saturday A 40-year-old British female climber was caught and killed in an avalanche along with a 50-year-old Swiss male this weekend in the Swiss Alps. They were only 100 vertical feet from the summit of 11,000 foot Pointes de Mourti when a 330-foot wide avalanche hit them at 7:25am on Saturday. Four other climbers were caught in the avalanche and survived. One of the survivors called rescuers and three helicopters arrived at the […] Avalanche Miles Clark | July 22, 2014 1 Comment
Tahoe Scenes : Recent Photography From Around The Lake (July) This July will be remembered as the time that moisture happened in Tahoe… at least as far as the last few summers are concerned. The recent storms are a welcomed shift from the months of dry weather for many obvious reasons, but they also have the fun side effects of some really neat lightning shows and great sunsets. These photos are all from […] Matt Bansak | July 21, 2014 2 Comments
Turoa, New Zealand Conditions Report: Best Day Yet, More Snow Coming! There were smiles all around on our first chair of the day today. I’m pretty sure I heard shouts of “Yewwwwwwww!!!” and “Winning!” on my first ski down. After a late start due to road closures, I was on the chair by 10am with a bright blue sky. There were 15 cms (that’s 5.9 inches for you ignorant Americans) of fresh, 10% moisture content, white gold […] Conditions Report Guy LaDouche | July 21, 2014 0 Comments
Solid Colorado Summer Skiing: Skyscraper A perfect Colorado day allowed us to get an early start and walk the ridge out to Skyscraper. We skied a picturesque line right down to Bob Lake. The snow was firm yet soft. A bit bumpy, but nothing unmanageable, pretty dirty, but not too sticky. The top of the line had a good sized bergschrund that we had to avoid. So if the 95 degree heat in the plains is getting to you, just know that there is plenty of snow to be had, it just takes an early start and a short walk. […] Conditions Report Aaron Rice | July 21, 2014 1 Comment
Rainbow Pools / Yosemite / Tioga Pass Report & Photo Tour: I drove through Yosemite on Friday and Saturday. Rainbow Pools was going off. I’ve never seen so many people there. I had to park up the road and walk down. That’s never happened to me. There were over 100 people hanging out, fishing, swimming, peanut gallerying, and cliff jumping. One guy threw a double backflip and put the rest of us to shame. A couple other guys, who’d clearly been drinking, tried flips and ended up doing 1.25 flips with very loud, painful, and entertaining consequences. The crowd that spends time at Rainbow Pools is the classic American crowd. I call it the Big ___s and Tattoo crowd – B.T.&T. in [..] Conditions Report Miles Clark | July 21, 2014 1 Comment
More Big Screens, Please. A recent report highlighted the jump in sales for ultra big screen televisions. Televisions 50 inches and up now account for 25% of all sales. Screens 65 inches and greater have seen a 69% boost over the past year. All of this news had me a bit concerned… Is my screen large enough? No one wants word to get out that his screen is disappointingly small. This was all very disconcerting, indeed. It was true seemingly everywhere I looked there were more screens and they were getting bigger and bigger. In Reno, Nevada, the Grand Sierra Resort is […] Featured Article Andy Hays | July 20, 2014 1 Comment
Bariloche, Argentina Conditions Report: 3-Foot Base Up Top Catedral ski resort in Bariloche, Argentina is starting to build up enough snowpack to make things interesting. Actually, from these photos, the upper mountain is looking damn good. One of our reporters there, local ripper Julian, just sent us these photos and this report. He’s reporting that there is over a 3 foot base at the top and that you can ski to the bottom. Many years, you can never ski all the way to the bottom. Sounds like […] Conditions Report Guest Author | July 18, 2014 0 Comments
Friday Fun: America’s Top 10 Drunkest Cities Men’s Health just put together a list of the top 100 drunkest cities in America. All we can say is: “East Coast, where you at?” There isn’t a single city east of the Mississippi on this list. C’mon East Coast, step it up, would ya? California and Texas are the drunkest states according to this list. They actually did a great job of coming up with a formula for which cities are the drunkest: 1st = Most liver disease […] Friday Fun SnowBrains | July 18, 2014 6 Comments
Australia Conditions Report | Mt. Hotham Backcountry: Razorback Things in Australia have been looking pretty good lately, after a bit of a late start, the mountains have been seeing some decent falls of snow. The forecast for last weekend was looking good, a little bit of fresh snow and then sunshine. Rob and Myself got in the car late Friday afternoon and begun the six and a half hour mission up to the mountains. Saturday was a great day in the resort of Mt Hotham, little bit of fresh snow overnight kept everyone happy and stoked. The ski area […] Conditions Report Guest Author | July 18, 2014 0 Comments
Turoa, New Zealand Conditions Report: Solid Terrain & Snow on the Way It was a beautiful bluebird day at Turoa. Conditions still fall into the ‘early season’ category, but the skiing was fun and there was plenty of good snow around. A big thank you goes out to the snowmaking crew who have been working around the clock to get as much terrain opened as possible. After picking my way through a rocky […] Conditions Report Guy LaDouche | July 18, 2014 0 Comments
25-Year-Old Snowfall Record Broken In Australia: Photo Tour Falls Creek ski resort in Australia just broke 150cms (60 inches) base depth mark. That is the most snow they’ve had on the ground this early in 25 years. Not bad. Falls Creek seems to get the most snow of any of the ski resorts and they just got 50cms (20 inches). Falls just got 25cms of new snow yesterday and 10cms yesterday and 15cms the day before yesterday. There is no snow in the current forecast but we’re confident that Australia will come alive again soon. This just might be their year… […] Conditions Report SnowBrains | July 17, 2014 1 Comment
Throwback Thursday | That One Time it Snowed at Squaw Last Season It’s Thursday, and hence its everyones favorite day to reminisce on the past with the classic #throwbackthursday. We here at Snowbrains thought we would get on the Throwback Thursday Train and highlight some of our best videos from last season, and with roughly four months to go before winter here in the Northern Hemisphere, we’re all […] Jesse Cassidy | July 17, 2014 0 Comments