9 Less Than Common Myths Busted for Recreational Skiers You are out skiing at your favorite resort, and while enjoying a ride up the chairlift, you look down. You see a first-time teen slowly making their way down the hill. There is a child ripping turns and jumping off everything in sight, and a middle-aged man with an instructor working on turn shape. Many styles and varieties of skiing […] Jenah MacGrain | June 15, 2025 4 Comments
The Best Resort in the World for Advanced Skiers is…Big Sky? Imagine you’re sitting on a chairlift and the skier next to you starts chatting you up. Happens all the time, right? You exchange pleasantries about the weather, how many days you’ve hit the mountain this season, when they’re going to open [insert run name here] – you know, the usual stuff. Then, right before the bar goes up, your lift […] Industry News Joe Vignolo | June 15, 2025 20 Comments
Where Will it Be Deep This Week? These are the Southern Hemisphere’s Top 5 Forecasted Resorts for the Next 10 Days It’s always snowing somewhere, and fresh snow is the essence of skiing and snowboarding. Whether you are chasing the deepest conditions or love seeing where the snow is piling up so you can live vicariously through others, these resorts will receive the most over the next week and beyond, hopefully setting them up for a successful winter. It is still early season […] Weather WeatherBrains | June 14, 2025 0 Comments
Top 11 U.S. Big Mountain Ski Resorts: Opinion From a Freestyle Skier Lists are inherently wrong, no matter how you look at them. There will almost always be something to argue about. So why make them at all? Well… I love a good debate. There are no set factors that I decided to rate each resort on. The majority of this list are resorts that I have had experience skiing, and I […] Ryan Flynn | June 14, 2025 30 Comments
FIS Approves Prize Money Increase Across All World Cup Disciplines for 2025–26 Season The International Ski and Snowboard Federation (FIS) voted to increase prize money across all FIS World Cup disciplines for the 2025-26 season. During the 56th FIS Council Meeting held in Geneva on June 12–13, council members approved a boost of up to 20% in athlete prize money—10% guaranteed by FIS, with an additional 10% to be voluntarily contributed by each […] Industry News Julia Schneemann | June 14, 2025 0 Comments
Bear Encounter Prompts Tent Ban at Popular Aspen, CO, Campground A bear encounter has prompted a soft tent ban at Difficult Camp Ground and Difficult Group Site near Aspen, Colorado. According to an article by the Aspen Times, a bear (or bears) scratched and damaged a tent on the night of June 9. Two children were sleeping in the tent at the time and were unharmed, but the tent was […] SnowBrains | June 14, 2025 0 Comments
The 5 Ski Resorts in the U.S. with the Weirdest Names When it comes to ski resorts, the name on the sign can be as memorable as the slopes themselves. While many resorts boast classic, picturesque names, others take a far quirkier approach, choosing names that raise eyebrows, spark laughter, or inspire curiosity. We asked our readers: What ski resort has the weirdest name? These were the resorts that proved that […] Brains Brent Thomas | June 14, 2025 2 Comments
Home Town Shout Out: Elk Mountain, Pennsylvania’s Hidden Gem Growing up just outside Philadelphia in South Jersey (Go Birds!), ski options were pretty limited. Fortunately, I had family in northeastern PA, and like it or not, I was on skis by the age of five. These days, I’ve since converted to the dark side—snowboarding—but that’s a story for another time. After a three-hour drive from Philly, you’ll arrive in […] Industry News Teo | June 14, 2025 0 Comments
Is the Automotive Industry Influencing What Skis You Buy? Looking at automobile sales over time, one thing becomes clear: SUVs are becoming increasingly popular. Currently, SUV sales are more than cars and trucks combined, and in 2022, accounted for 46.6% of new car registrations in the US. Although sedans still have their place, Ford, Dodge, and Chrysler no longer offer mid-size four-door sedans. If you take notice of all […] Brent Thomas | June 14, 2025 1 Comment
Beartooth Basin Ski Area, MT, to Wrap Up Season This Sunday, June 15 View this post on Instagram A post shared by Beartooth Basin Ski Area (@beartoothbasin) One of North America’s most unique summer ski areas is preparing to call it a season. Beartooth Basin Ski Area, perched at 10,900 feet on the Montana-Wyoming border, will close for the year this Sunday, June 15. The high-elevation, lift-served ski area has been spinning chairs […] Industry News Martin Kuprianowicz | June 13, 2025 0 Comments
Alex Honnold, Famed Big Wall Climber and “Free Solo” Star, Cast In Upcoming Supernatural Climbing Movie Alex Honnold, 39, is set to feature in an upcoming horror climbing movie The Sound filmed in Mazama, Washington, and Las Vegas, Nevada, according to IMBD. Honnold is famous for his big mountain climbs in both Yosemite National Park, and across the globe. In 2017, Honnold changed the climbing world forever by becoming the first person to summit Yosemite’s “freerider” route […] Climbing Joseph Kaufmann | June 13, 2025 0 Comments
NOAA June 2025 ENSO Update: Neutral Conditions—Neither El Niño nor La Niña—Most Likely for Winter 2025-26 This post first appeared on the climate.gov ENSO blog and was written by Emily Becker. The Pacific Ocean has hit pause and settled into ENSO-neutral conditions, which are expected to continue through the Northern Hemisphere summer. This makes seasonal forecasting for upcoming global rain, temperature, and other patterns a bit trickier. Related: These Are the 6 Ski Areas Open in […] Weather WeatherBrains | June 13, 2025 0 Comments
Mount Washington Alpine Resort, BC, Reopens for Bonus Weekend Rail Park Event Mount Washington Alpine Resort in British Columbia is set to open for a bonus weekend, offering skiers and snowboarders a rare chance to hit the slopes in mid-June. The resort’s grooming and park crew, fresh off a final test run, have prepared a compact but lively Rail Park for visitors on June 14 and 15. Related: These Are the 6 […] Industry News SnowBrains | June 13, 2025 0 Comments
The U.S. Will Host 10 FIS World Cup Events Next Season as Athletes Compete to Qualify for 2026 Winter Olympics U.S. Ski & Snowboard is excited to announce 10 domestic FIS World Cup events for the 2025-26 season, spanning alpine, freestyle, snowboard, freeski, ski jumping, and cross country. Related: Inside the U.S. Ski Team’s Ambitious Plan to Win the FIS Alpine Nations Cup This landmark season will see every U.S.-based World Cup—except for cross country—serve as a key qualifier for […] Competition SnowBrains | June 13, 2025 0 Comments
4 New Zealand Ski Resorts Set to Open This Weekend After Heavy Snowfall New Zealand ski season is set to kick off this Saturday, June 14, with four major resorts—Mt. Hutt, The Remarkables, Coronet Peak, and Cardrona—welcoming skiers and snowboarders after a series of storms blanketed the region in fresh snow. Mt. Hutt had initially planned to open on Friday, June 13, but was postponed by a day due to unsafe conditions following […] Industry News Kiwi Brains | June 13, 2025 0 Comments
6,646′ Going-to-the-Sun Road, Glacier National Park, MT, Projected to Open Monday, June 16 The full length of Going-to-the-Sun Road is expected to open to motorized vehicles Monday, June 16, for the 2025 summer season. As a reminder, timed entry vehicle reservations are required to enter Going-to-the-Sun Road from the west side of the park for those traveling by vehicle or motorcycle from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. beginning June 13 through September 28. […] National Parks SnowBrains | June 13, 2025 0 Comments
The Strange World Of Skiing Superstitions If you grew up in a region that received snow, you’re probably familiar with the multitude of skiing superstitions. Whether it was wearing your pajamas inside out or flushing ice cubes down the toilet, every kid had their preferred method of playing with fate to force a snow day. Skiers, however, have taken snow superstitions to the next level. A common […] Dylan Craig | June 13, 2025 6 Comments
British Ski Racer Dave Ryding Announces His Intention to Retire After the 2026 Winter Olympics Dave Ryding, Britain’s most accomplished alpine skier, has announced that he will retire following the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan-Cortina. The tech specialist, who to date is the only British Alpine skier to have won a FIS World Cup race, starts mainly in the Slalom and Giant Slalom disciplines. He made his World Cup debut in February 2009 in Val […] Industry News Julia Schneemann | June 13, 2025 0 Comments
Inside the U.S. Ski Team’s Ambitious Plan to Win the FIS Alpine Nations Cup The U.S. Ski Team has set its sights on winning the Overall Nations Cup by 2035. Chip Knight, U.S. Ski and Snowboard’s (USSS) Alpine Development Director, tells SnowBrains, “We’d like to stand toe to toe with the best Nations in the world, and the Nations Cup is the best metric in terms of depth of excellence.” The Performance Task Force […] Competition David Michael | June 12, 2025 0 Comments
Hometown Mountain Shoutout: Bousquet, MA—A Small Mountain With A Big Heart Western Massachusetts—specifically Berkshire County—lies within the Appalachian range, in a region locally known as the Berkshire Hills. Within these hills are numerous ski resorts, but at the center of Berkshire County lies a lesser-known, yet unique and historic resort: Bousquet Mountain. As the ski resorts are all within an hour of each other, they share many of the same skiers […] Zach Suffish | June 12, 2025 0 Comments
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