Crested Butte, CO, Hosts Natural Selection Duels Crested Butte Mountain Resort, Colorado, last week hosted four of the world’s top snowboarders for the YETI Natural Selection DUELs. The Natural Selection Dules are a series of head-to-head competitions that determine who will advance to the next stages of the Natural Selection Tour in Revelstoke, British Columbia. Jamie Anderson and Emma Crosby faced off in CBMR’s famed extremes, while […] Industry News SnowBrains | February 14, 2024 0 Comments
Big White, BC, Conditions Report: It’s Winter! Report from Saturday, February 10, 2024 Big White in British Columbia reminded us what winter should feel like in February. Having never been before, we were utterly taken with Big White’s terrain, vibes, and snow. We rolled up to the mountain a bit later than planned and were treated to a nearly empty parking lot with immediate access to a […] Conditions Report Nicky Blumm | February 12, 2024 0 Comments
Kicking Horse, BC, Conditions Report: Redemption on the Ridges Report from February 4-5, 2024 Kicking Horse, British Columbia, seems like the crown gem of the Kootenay Valley. Despite warming that dramatically reduced the snowpack, a few centimeters of dust each day provided us with enough soft snow to explore its famed ridges and understand why the resort is legendary. The entire mountain’s base was hard, but from the top […] Conditions Report Nicky Blumm | February 6, 2024 0 Comments
Top 9 Countries With the Most Ski Resorts This list is for those itching to know just how many ski resorts one could ski in any of these top countries. Spoiler alert… it’d take a long time to hit all of these. Today’s list will provide enough nerdy facts for the next trivia night, because why else would anyone know that France has 199 ski resorts? To clarify […] Brains Luke Guilford | January 29, 2024 0 Comments
[PHOTOS] Travis Rice Visits Crested Butte Mountain Resort, CO, to Scout Zones for YETI Natural Selection DUELs Snowboarding icon Travis Rice was in Crested Butte last week, scouting out potential zones for the YETI Natural Selection DUELs set to take place in early February. The Natural Selection Tour is the world’s top snowboarding competition that combines slopestyle tricks with big mountain freeriding. The Crested Butte region will be home to two of the six 2024 DUELs. This first stage of the Natural Selection […] Industry News SnowBrains | January 23, 2024 0 Comments
British Columbia Heli-Ski Operation Fined $84,000 for Fatal Avalanche Incident Canadian Mountain Holidays (CMH) is the first and largest heli-ski operator in the world based on lodges, tenure, and skier visits. With 11 heli-ski destinations and hosting guests from dozens of countries around the world every year, they deliver what every snow sports enthusiast dreams of–untracked, exclusive powder. An operation of that size and nature is sure to occasionally have […] Avalanche Brent Thomas | January 4, 2024 0 Comments
2 Of Our Favorite Ski Destinations in the High Terrain of British Columbia It’s easy to make a case for many ski locations in the world for a host of reasons (powder quality, terrain, location, etc). Still, without a doubt, one cannot disagree that British Columbia delivers some of the most spectacular world-class skiing and snowboarding experiences on the planet. Don’t believe me? I will break down two epic spots in British Columbia […] Matthew Oliphant | January 4, 2024 0 Comments
YETI Natural Selection Tour Announces DUELS Challengers and Matchups The list of riders challenging for a spot on the 2024 Natural Selection Tour has been announced today, December 19, 2023, and it is spicy. Olympians, icons and snowboarding’s most exciting riders are dropping into mountain venues worldwide in head-to-head competition for the first stage of the 2024 Natural Selection Tour: YETI Natural Selection DUELS. Watch DUELS exclusively on Red […] Industry News SnowBrains | December 20, 2023 0 Comments