VIDEO: Sherpa Cinema + Bella Coola “Bella Coola first appeared in major ski films nearly a decade ago. But the Shangri-La of ski terrain has been off the radar in recent years despite its incredible dramatic terrain, aesthetic lines, and deep snowpack. Sherpas Cinema dropped in to Bella Coola last year to film Into The Mind […] SnowBrains | January 15, 2014 0 Comments
Candide Thovex Getting Insane Last Week This video shows Candide Thovex getting nutty in the park last week in Val Thorens, France. The guy is a freak. He doesn’t even need two skis to land big tricks. On a side note, it looks like the alps have a lot of snow and some great coverage right now, huh? Candide is certainly in the running for greatest skier of all time. He’s clearly ridiculous in the park, he’s unreal in the backcountry, he’s won Freeride World Tour, he goes big, he can do all the latest tricks, and he goes big. Candide Thovex was born in Annecy, Haute-Savoie, and grew up in the village of […] SnowBrains | December 9, 2013 3 Comments
NEW Trailer for Sherpa Cinema’s “Into The Mind” is Sick These guys are good. Sherpa Cinema’s just released Trailer #2 for their latest Movie “Into the Mind” that just had its world premier last week. In this edition, they’re trying to tell us that skiing has consequences. Big consequences. And it does. What Sherpa Cinema’s is doing with ski movies is changing the industry. Now, they’re […] Movie Trailer SnowBrains | September 30, 2013 3 Comments
Has Climate Change Brought an End to Summer Skiing on Horstman Glacier, Whistler Blackcomb, BC? In 2015, Whistler Blackcomb, BC announced that due to melting snow and the retreat of the Horstman Glacier they would take the unprecedented move of snowmaking in summer to preserve the long-held tradition of summer skiing on the glacier. It now looks like they managed to hold off the melting for five years, as photos of the area show the resort […] Industry News SnowBrains | July 14, 2020 10 Comments
Armada Headquarters Leaving Sunny SoCal for the Greatest Snow on Earth Armada Ski Company is packing its bags and heading east, leaving its long time Costa Mesa, California offices and heading to Park City, Utah. The move puts Armadas headquarters closer to the mountains than their previous location of sunny Southern California, where the closest resort, Big Bear is a two hour drive, and Mammoth close to six. Park City will […] Jesse Cassidy | December 15, 2014 0 Comments
15th Annual Powder Awards Breakdown and Cody Townsend Interview: Thanks to the great people at Power Magazine & Snowbrains I was able to get an exclusive media invite to the annual Powder Awards this year. The event takes place once a year and in this honors the best of each and every discipline in free skiing. With free skiing changing and progressing so much every year the pow awards see something new and different win in each category, this yearThe event took place in downtown Salt Lake City on a busy Friday night, with some of the best skiers and companies in free skiing up for […] Ryan Mulcahy | December 8, 2014 0 Comments
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