VIDEO: Made in the Mitten | Never Before Seen Footage of the Birth of Snowboarding. In Michigan. On December 25th, 1965, amidst the blustery winds and sand dunes of Muskegon, Michigan, Sherman Poppen made history by strapping two skis together and sending his young daughter careening down his backyard hill. Related: Origins: Snowboarding His invention soon dubbed the Snurfer, laid the foundation for snowboarding as we know it. Dedicated to Sherman Poppen and Jake Burton Carpenter. SnowBrains | December 8, 2020 0 Comments
Ski Area Vandal Wanted in Michigan Police are offering a reward for information about a ski area vandal. The vandalism occurred at Pine Knob Resort in Michigan. Security footage captured the man destroying property at the resort. Pine Knob Resort is on the border between Detroit and Flint counties. The resort boasts six chairlifts and has a 300 foot vertical drop from peak to the base […] Industry News Lynn Barlow | June 19, 2020 0 Comments
VIDEO: Powerful Water Floods Town After 2 Dams Break in Michigan, Forcing Thousands to Evacuate 2 dams busted in central Michigan on Tuesday forcing the evacuation of thousands of residents and causing the national weather service to issue a flash-flood warning for areas near the Tittabawassee River. The dams were the Edenville Dam and the Stanford Dam near Midland, Michigan. It is believed that severe flooding in the area had put too much pressure […] SnowBrains | May 22, 2020 0 Comments
VIDEO: Mount Bohemia TV is a Cool Documentary About a Unique Michigan Ski Resort Mount Bohemia TV is a documentary about a unique little ski area situated in the northernmost point of the U. P. of Michigan. It’s the snowiest place in the Midwest due to the Lake Superior lake effect phenomenon, this year alone they’ve received 330″. Mount Bohemia might be the home of some of the best-gladed tree skiing in the entire […] SnowBrains | March 22, 2019 0 Comments
Copper Peak Ski-Jump is Back in Use: The World’s Steepest 400 Meter Race Is Coming to Michigan The world’s largest artificial ski jump tower, Copper Peak, MI which closed almost 25-years ago, is back in action for an athletic competition far removed from its original purpose: adventure-seeking endurance athletes are set to run 400 meters up the 35-degree incline that ski jumpers would normally speed down. For the first time since 1994, Copper Peak, the iconic ski […] Industry News Steven Agar | April 30, 2018 0 Comments
VIDEO: Skiing Behind An Amish Buggy In Michigan How awesome is this? Skiing behind an Amish buggy in Michigan. Tara Hayward shot this video and posted it with the simple tag of #puremichigan. So there ya go, that’s what Michigan is all about. Laughs Chris Wallner | December 28, 2017 0 Comments
VIDEO: 106 Year Old Skier Takes Some Turns At His Home Mountain In Northern Michigan [iframe id=”https://www.facebook.com/plugins/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FCrystalMountain%2Fvideos%2F10154945536191774%2F&show_text=0&width=400″] Lou Batori is 106 years old and he is still making turns at his home mountain of Crystal Mountain in Northern Michigan. Lou was 10 years old when he started skiing in his home country of Hungary, but it wasn’t until he was 16 years old that he took his first chairlift ride. Local ski resorts tend to […] Industry News Chris Wallner | February 21, 2017 0 Comments
Fire at Michigan’s Boyne Highlands Main Lodge Injures 12 Harbor Springs, Michigan: Over the weekend an early morning fire ripped through the Main Lodge at Boyne Highlands ski resort. The blaze began at approximately 1:30 am Sunday morning. Sixty-four of the rooms were occupied that night, with a total of 113 guests. Twelve of the guests were injured, one seriously. The 23-year-old man was transported to a nearby hospital […] Robin Azer | December 12, 2016 0 Comments