SnowBrains Forecast: Parade of Storms to Bring Up To 20″ Snow to the Cascades Forecast by SnowBrains Meteorologist Rowan Sullivan 4:20 a.m. MST 11/4/2021 Forecast Summary: The first storm in a series of many will arrive in the Pacific Northwest Thursday afternoon. Warm temperatures initially will keep snow levels above pass levels through Thursday before lowering to 4,000 ft. by Friday and 3,000 ft. through the weekend. This will be sufficiently low for some […] Weather Nathan Tarino | November 4, 2021 0 Comments
Trip Report: September Turns on Mt. Hood, Oregon It’s that time of year again when the skiing is often about as inaccessible and bad as it gets. Yet still, the allure of Turns All Year is a powerful force, powerful enough to overcome the dread of skiing dirty, 5-month-old snow in September. Related: Turns All Year: A Guide to How to Ski Every Month of the Year in North […] Trip Report Clay Malott | September 27, 2021 3 Comments
Timberline Lodge, OR Completes Acquisition of Ski Area to Create New Resort With Longest Vertical in US Back in 2018, J.S.K. and Company, the operators of Timberline Lodge & Ski Area, OR, acquired their neighbor just six miles down the mountain, Summit Ski Area. Summit Ski Area was built in 1927 and is the oldest ski resort in the Pacific North West and the second oldest in the US. The merger was made official in July 2021 and […] Industry News SnowBrains | September 27, 2021 2 Comments
North America’s Only Open Ski Area Closes For the Season: The Wait for Winter is On The end of lift-served summer skiing is here. Mount Hood’s Timberline Lodge and Ski Area officially shut down on Sunday, ending summer ski season for the Pacific Northwest glacier/volcano ski area. The resort wrote in an August 15 Facebook post: “Today is our last day of summer skiing and riding, a huge thank you to all who came up this […] Industry News Martin Kuprianowicz | August 18, 2021 0 Comments
VIDEO: Hunter Hess Lands World’s First Ski Halfpipe Triple Cork [arve url="https://youtu.be/7R_n_NepAqs"] SnowBrains | July 12, 2021 Likes Tweets 0 Comments
For the First Time in 2-Years, There Are Currently Ski Resorts Open on 6 Continents For the first time in two years, there are ski resorts open across six of the globe’s seven continents. Ironically, the continent with the most snow and ice, Antarctica, is the only continent without an operating ski resort. Related: Photo Tour: It’s Dumping in Africa! Ski Resort Gets First Major Snow of the Season Corralco in Chile opened yesterday, kicking […] Industry News SnowBrains | June 30, 2021 0 Comments
There Are 3 Ski Resorts Open in North America This Weekend And then there were three… these ski resorts are now your only options for turns now. PNW: Timberline Lodge, OR – 9 am to 3 pm daily. Open through summer Crystal Mountain Resort, WA – bonus weekend June 11-13 WY/MT: Beartooth Basin, North America’s only summer-only ski area, opened for the season on May 29 SnowBrains | June 11, 2021 6 Comments
Authorities Identify Man Killed in 500-Foot Fall on Mt. Hood, Oregon On Wednesday, June 2, authorities announced that a man involved in a deadly climbing accident on Mt. Hood, Oregon, has been identified. Search & rescue teams “immediately responded” to several calls from witnesses who had seen the man fall while at an elevation of around 10,500 feet. Mt. Hood Ski Patrol personnel also assisted in the rescue. 64-year-old Patrick Michael […] Climbing Clay Malott | June 4, 2021 1 Comment
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