Avalanche Injures 6 US Soldiers During Mountain Warfare Training in Stowe, VT Backcountry Avalanche Today 6 US soldiers were injured in an avalanche while performing advanced mountain warfare training today in the backcountry near Stowe ski resort in Vermont. They were swept 1,000′ downhill in the avalanche. The avalanche occurred in Easy Gully on the north side of Mt. Mansfield in the backcountry between Stowe and Smugglers Notch ski resorts. National Guard officials report that […] Avalanche AvyBrains | March 14, 2018 2 Comments
Skiers Trigger, then Avoid, Huge Avalanche During Backcountry Tour on Mount Mansfield, VT I’ve been asked to go into more detail about exactly what human factors caused us to end up triggering a 1300’ slide that almost hit the road and that we narrowly avoided being caught in. (It’s gonna be a long one) F.A.C.E.T.S Familiarity – This was one of the biggest factors of the day. In Vermont 98% of the time […] Avalanche AvyBrains | March 14, 2018 1 Comment
VIDEO: Ripping “La Oficinia” at Las Lenas, Argentina This Week [iframe id=”https://www.facebook.com/plugins/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fairandriceski%2Fvideos%2F647439692077600%2F&show_text=0&width=560″] video and words by Aaron Rice While much of Argentina has had a slow winter Las Leñas has been going off!! I’ve been lucky enough to be here for the last month. 100% human powered I’ve skied some classic steeps around Marte and found some amazing powder filled spines and cliffs in a little locals zone called La […] Aaron Rice | August 9, 2016 0 Comments
The Top 10 Ski Resorts in North America for 2016 | by Forbes Just yesterday, Forbes released its Top 10 Ski Resorts in North America for 2016. Yes, Forbes’ top 10 changes from year to year. “Does skiing change year to year? Of course it does. So, too, do the best ski resort rankings in the world. We’ve again worked most of the summer and fall to add information, statistics, formulas, programming, inputs […] SnowBrains | November 19, 2015 4 Comments
VIDEO: 1st East Coast Turns of the Season! – October 17th! The first east coast turns of the season have been made! A 5:30am wake up proved to be a tad on the early side. After a nice couple cups of coffee and breakfast I headed to the Stowe parking lot. Bits of wintery mix hit my windshield but there was nothing on the ground […] Aaron Rice | October 17, 2015 5 Comments
Utah Ski Resort Opening Dates for 2015/16: Utah is now home to the largest ski resort in the USA after Vail muscled Park City away from its former owners via litigation and combined it via two chairlifts to Vail’s other ski resort, The Canyons. The new ski resort is now simply called Park City. Park City and the other famous ski resorts in the Cottonwood Canyons will […] Industry News SnowBrains | October 8, 2015 2 Comments
Utah Avalanche Center’s Official Winter Outlook for the Wasatch Will the Wasatch get a big winter this Strong El Nino year? Will they? 800 inches of snow this winter? 1,000 inches? The legendary avalanche forecaster Bruce Tremper from the Utah Avalanche Center knows: It’s that time of year when everyone asks me, “What kind of winter are we going to have.” I always give the same answer: “We will get what we get. If anyone could reliably forecast long term weather, they could be fabulously wealthy.” “But this is a big El Nino year. It’s supposed to be HUGE! “Nope,” I reply, “Neither El Nino nor La Nina have any correlation to northern Utah because we are on the boundary between the two regimes. Weather SnowBrains | October 2, 2015 0 Comments
What a Strong El Nino Means for Utah: In case you haven’t heard, El Nino is here now, it’s getting stronger, and the this El Nino may be the strongest on record. We know that in California, 4 of the 5 strong El Ninos on record have resulted in above average precipitation, but what does it mean for our snow-crazed friends in Utah? The only information we’ve been able to dig up so far is the last 5 strong El Nino snow totals at the Alta Guard station in Alta, Utah. The Alta Guard station sees an average annual snowfall of 499″. Two of the three strong El Nino’s produced below average snowfall, but not much below. 433″ in 65/66 and […] Weather SnowBrains | August 7, 2015 2 Comments