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Mammoth Mountain, CA Will Finally CLOSE on August 6th | Open 270 Days This Season!

Mammoth Mountain, CA has had an EPIC season.  There is no other way to describe it. Mammoth saw 618″ of snowfall and they were open for 270 days this season!  Their 2nd longest season ever. That only leaves 95 days this year that Mammoth wasn’t open!   Unreal! Mammoth saw the snowiest month in its history in January with over 250″ […]

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Avatar photo SnowBrains | July 31, 2017
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VIDEO: 3 Sick Backcountry Lines in Chile Last Week

Our good friends at South Lines with Red Bull just got in some killer skiing in the Chilean andes accessed via La Parva and El Colorado ski resorts. Their claiming that the skinny one is a first descent.  

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Avatar photo SnowBrains | July 31, 2017
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Family of UNR Football Player Still Searching For His Body in Lake Tahoe, CA One Year Later

PLACER COUNTY, CA SHERIFF’S OFFICE PRESS RELEASE: This weekend, until Tuesday, the family of a young college student who went missing in June, 2016, while paddle boarding in Lake Tahoe has hired a company to search the deep water for his body. Ma’s parents, pictured here last summer as they watched the search for their son Marc, 20, is using […]

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Summer is the New Winter For Ski Resorts

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Ask any ski town local why they live there, and I bet many reply ‘I came for the winters, stayed for the summers’. For decades, summer has been the off-season for ski resorts. Downtime to concentrate on maintenance and upgrades, to run on skeleton staff and prepare for the next big bucks winter season. Winter has always taken care of itself. If it […]

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Steven Agar | July 29, 2017
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VIDEO: Freeride World Tour Badass and Squaw Valley Local Ryan Faye’s 2016/17 Season Edit

Ryan Faye has been throwing down this season. From the Chimney and Siberia Ridge at Squaw, to Alaskan faces on the Freeride World Tour, to the kickers at Snowbird, Ryan turned heads and cemented his status as part of the next generation of top Squaw freeriders. Ryan started his freeride career on the Squaw Valley Big Mountain team, and just […]

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Roger Romani | July 28, 2017
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Trenching down Norway’s Most Scenic Fjords, by Mountain Bike

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I guarantee this will be the most beautiful MTB video you’ve watched for a while.  The drone and POV footage are on point (along with the jam from Easy Giant), but the jagged sea-to-sky fjords of Geiranger take the clips to another level.  Drop Red Bull freerider and local Norwegian Mads André “Makken” Haugen into the mix, and you have yourself one […]

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Spencer Miller | July 28, 2017
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Visiting a National Park? There’s a (Free!) Map For That

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Summer is here and America’s national parks are full of visitors. If you’re currently one of them or plan to be soon, you need this site, National Park Maps, in your life. We all have fond memories of arriving at a national park. You arrive at the entrance booth, hand the ranger your money, and in return receive a brochure-like map. It’s the […]

Steven Agar | July 28, 2017
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Jack Johnson Donates Money To Lake Tahoe Environmental Groups

Famous recording artist Jack Johnson loves Lake Tahoe so much, he’s putting money into it. Jack and his wife Kim have their own foundation named The Johnson Ohana Foundation (Ohana means family in Hawaiian) that they started in 2008.  Jack has committed the foundation to matching donations up to $2,500 to the League to Save Lake Tahoe (Keep Tahoe Blue), Tahoe Rim […]

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Tahoe: “State of the Lake” Report 2016 Released Today | by UC Davis

Tahoe: “State of the Lake” Report by UC Davis July 27th, 207 The UC Davis Tahoe Environmental Research Center today released its annual Tahoe: State of the Lake Report, assessing a year marked by the hottest temperatures on record followed by a winter of unprecedented levels of rain and snow in the Sierra Nevada mountains, where Lake Tahoe resides. The report […]

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Which Lake Tahoe Ski Resorts Have the Best College Season Passes?

Which Tahoe resorts have the best deals for college passes? We tallied the costs, counted the blackout days, and weighed the pluses and minuses to help you figure it all out. ******* Squaw/Alpine Price: $469 Blackout days: None! Pluses: The terrain, oh, the terrain. It doesn’t get much more fun than Squaw, period. Send the fingers, pole whack on the ‘saides, and […]

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Roger Romani | July 27, 2017
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Canadian Police End Search for Missing Australian Hiker

Australian Sophie Dowsley (34) and and Canadian Gregory Tiffin (44) were last seen on July 8th in the town of Harrison Hot Springs, B.C. before setting off on a day hike…. Two days later, they were reported missing when they did not show up for work, and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police sprung into action. Rescue crews later found their SUV and […]

Spencer Miller | July 27, 2017
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Saddlebag Lake Resort on Tioga Pass, CA For Sale for $339,000!

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Time to dig down the back of the couch, smash the piggy bank or club together with your buddies, because less than a week after declaring that they won’t be open for the summer, due to damage caused by too MUCH snow, the current owners of Saddlebag Lake Resort have put the property up for sale.  For the bargain price […]

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Steven Agar | July 27, 2017
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VIDEO: Korean Magician Skis Down Face Of Building for 2018 Winter Olympics Promotion

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Las Leñas, Argentina Backcountry Report: Cerro Martin Powder

Report from July 25th, 2017 As we said on July 24th, most of Las Leñas off piste terrain is closed due to hard, packed snow conditions, caused by a long period without snowfall, lots of sun and strong winds. However, some backcountry itineraries are still possible, and snow has kept better than we expected. Las Leñas, Argentina Conditions Report & […]

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Matias Ricci | July 27, 2017
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Mt. Shasta Summer Climbing/Skiing Update: Skiing Is Over For All But The Most Dedicated…

“The skiing is over for all but the most dedicated. Deep sun-cups and penitentes have formed and are far from fun to ski. We enjoyed our last ski trip in late June with Tom H. and family who returned to Shasta for a birthday run on the classic Hotlum-Wintun route. Unless you’re headed to South America, it’s time to hang up […]

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Guest Author | July 27, 2017
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Legendary Ultra Runner Kilian Jornet to Attempt to Join Prestigious ‘Bob Graham Round Club’ in UK’s Lake District

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29 year old Kilian Jornet has pretty much seen and achieved it all. Born and raised in the mountains of Spain, he was climbing and running up some of Spain’s highest peaks whilst still in school. Well known and respected for his superhuman speed records up some of the worlds most iconic peaks, he currently holds the ‘Fastest Known Times’ […]

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Steven Agar | July 26, 2017
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“Finding The Line” Where Risk and Reason Collide With Points North Heli, AK

“Finding The Line” is an upcoming film directed by Bjarne Salen that explores the struggle between the progression of skiing and the excessive risk that can come with it. It stars sisters and pro freeskiers Natalie and Anna Segel from Melbourne, Austalia. The film follows the sisters as they set out to conquer their fears and unlock their full potential […]

Jake Rubnitz | July 26, 2017
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Oregon Opens 670 Mile Mountain Bike Trail -Across the Entire State!

  Bike packing, anyone?  That answer should unequivocally be yes, as Oregon has just opened a trail running the entire state, north to south.  It’s dubbed the “Oregon Timber Trail” as an ode to the many logging roads that make this traverse possible; but don’t be fooled, for half of the route is sweet singletrack. The 668 miles is broken […]

Spencer Miller | July 26, 2017
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Vail Resorts Promises to Eliminate Emissions, Landfill Waste, & Forest Impact By 2030 | The “Epic Promise”

Vail just announced a their latest effort to stem climate change that they are calling: “Epic Promise for a Zero Footprint” where Vail plans to completely eliminate the environmental impact of its operations by the year 2030. “The environment is our business, and we have a special obligation to protect it.” – Rob Katz, CEO Vail Resorts Vail is the Earth’s largest […]

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Avatar photo SnowBrains | July 26, 2017
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Bariloche, Argentina 2016 Season Recap + Photo Tour: 6 Powder Cycles in 7 Weeks…

Cerro Catedral ski resort in Bariloche, Argentina has a solid season this year. I arrived on August 7th and we saw 4 storm cycles in August including one where it snowed for 9 straight days (August 14th-22th). In September had two more storm cycles that got us out onto some big lines in the lift accessed backcountry. That’s 6 powder […]

Miles Clark | July 26, 2017
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