Annual Tahoe Backcountry Safety Awareness Week is Underway Week of in-person events and virtual education will focus on dangers of the backcountry and how to stay safe TAHOE CITY, Calif. (December 9) – From expert panel sessions about backcountry safety to on-the-snow events hosted by some of Lake Tahoe’s finest backcountry guides, the fifth annual Tahoe Backcountry Safety Awareness Week is chock full of events curated by Take […] Industry News SnowBrains | December 11, 2024 0 Comments
Vail Resorts Announces $254 Million of Resort Improvements and Upgrades for 2025 On Monday, alongside its earnings, Vail Resorts announced a $254 million upgrades and improvements capital investment plan for the 2025 calendar year, focusing on enhancing its ski resorts across the United States, Australia, and Switzerland. Related: Vail Resorts to Develop 4th Base Village at West Lionshead, Vail Mountain, CO The plan centers on two multi-year transformation projects at Park City […] Industry News SnowBrains | December 11, 2024 0 Comments
[PHOTOS] Alta Ski Area, UT, Report: An Analysis on Utah’s Early Season Snow Report from Tuesday, December 10, 2024 After a week between storms, Alta is ready for some more snow. The current sharky early season conditions have been slightly improved by two inches in the past 24 hours, adding to the current base of 28 inches and 87 inches of total snowfall this season. This recent storm […] Conditions Report Anders Henrikson | December 11, 2024 0 Comments
SnowBrains Podcast Ep. 74 | Chris Tomer – Emmy Award-Winning Meteorologist & Avid Backcountry Skier and Mountaineer This episode of the SnowBrains podcast is brought to you by Club Med. Chris Tomer is an Emmy Award-Winning Meteorologist with over 20 years of weather forecasting experience. He is also an avid backcountry skier and mountaineer who has climbed all of Colorado’s 54 14,000′ peaks. Chris has been an on-air host and meteorologist for KDVR Fox 31 Denver and Colorado […] Weather Podcast | December 11, 2024 0 Comments
NOAA ENSO December 2024 Update: Weak La Niña Forecast Packs Surprising Punch This post first appeared on the climate.gov ENSO blog and was written by Nat Johnson Although it’s taking its sweet old time to get going, a weak La Niña, the cool phase of the El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO), is expected to develop this winter. Much like I did last November, I thought it would be a good time to delve into how these expected tropical […] Weather WeatherBrains | December 11, 2024 0 Comments
What Are the Chances of a White Christmas Where You Live? The post “What Are the Chances of a White Christmas Where You Live?” first appeared on climate.gov and was written by Susan Osborne and Rebecca Lindsey Minnesota. Maine. Upstate New York. The Allegheny Mountains of Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Practically anywhere in Idaho. And, of course, the Rockies or the Sierra Nevada Mountains. These are the parts of the United […] WeatherBrains | December 11, 2024 0 Comments
Yellowstone National Park’s Winter Season Begins Sunday, December 15 Yellowstone National Park‘s winter season begins on Sunday, December 15. Annually, from mid-December until mid-March, visitors can travel most of the park’s roads from the West, South, East, and North entrances by approved commercially guided snowmobiles and snow coaches and via the non-commercially guided snowmobile access program. Currently, the accumulation of snowfall on roads varies across the park. This means […] SnowBrains | December 11, 2024 0 Comments
Today’s Deepest Open Resorts—North America’s Top 5 Snowfalls on December 10 More and more resorts are opening, and winter weather is here. It’s time to get after it! Get in the Snow – SnowBrains Weekly Email Delivers Our Most Popular Articles, Social Posts, and Exclusive Deals to Your Inbox These open resorts across North America saw the most snow in the last 24 hours, confirmed at the time of writing. Others with […] SnowBrains | December 10, 2024 0 Comments
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