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Valdez, AK, Heli-Skiing Report: 14 Glorious Runs on the Best Day of the Season & Mom’s Birthday

Report from April 25, 2025 Friday was my Mom’s birthday. She left us in 2023. We’ve had a difficult weather month here in Valdez this year but on Mom’s birthday, it went blue… We started early on Friday with Pulseline Adventure. Legendary guide Jessica Baker was our lead guide on this day and she crushed it. Powder, steeps, long runs, […]

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Miles Clark | April 28, 2025
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Valdez, AK, Heli-Skiing Report: Evening Light Steep Skiing Until Pumpkin Hour

Report from April 24, 2025 We’ve had rough weather this month in Valdez, AK. But we did sneak out for one powder run with Pulseline Adventure on April 23rd, and it was glorious just to get out. Then, on a sunny evening on April 24th, we got back out and skied a warm-up and then two deliciously steep runs. This […]

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Miles Clark | April 27, 2025
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Valdez, AK, Heli-Skiing Report: Sluffy Steeps & Powder Snow In A New Zone

Report from April 15, 2025 Yesterday we got out there early knowing the clouds would be building in the afternoon. We tip-toed as we have quite a few avalanche problems on the board and our reconnisance flight yesterday morning revealed hundreds of avalanches that occured mid-storm. We started on very mellow terrain. Then bumped up the angle slowly and tenitively. […]

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Miles Clark | April 20, 2025
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Valdez, AK, Report: 9 Runs of Airs, Mini-Spines, & Wide-Open Powder

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Report from April 15, 2025 On Tuesday, we got there early with Pulseline Adventure in Valdez, AK. We knew the clouds were coming in later in the day. We found good snow in a gorgeous zone off the Valdez Glacier right away. View this post on Instagram A post shared by SnowBrains (@snowbrains) We lapped it and laughed at the […]

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Miles Clark | April 20, 2025
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Valdez, AK, Report: Vicious Views Skiing Fresh Powder In Sunset Light

Report from April 14, 2025 Monday morning started out snowing hard at sea level. Then, the clouds started to part around noon. By 1 pm, we were airborne. View this post on Instagram A post shared by SnowBrains (@snowbrains) We started in an old favorite zone and found good snow. As the day wore on, we bumped over to a […]

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Miles Clark | April 17, 2025
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Valdez, AK, Report: Chasing Blue Holes, Buzzing Over Glaciers, & Skiing Powder Snow

Report from April 12, 2025 Saturday was the last day of my buddy’s week here in Valdez.  It had been a rough week with brutal weather. We needed a win. View this post on Instagram A post shared by SnowBrains (@snowbrains) Mother Nature gave us the nod on day 7 and gave us a lingering blue hole. It wasn’t much, […]

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Miles Clark | April 17, 2025
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Valdez, AK, Report: All-You-Can-Eat “Sushi Bar” Buffet

Report from April 3, 2025 On Thursday, we had our last sunny day of the week with Pulseline Adventure. We wasted it not. Lynn took us straight out to Sushi Bar, and we gorged. Our first two runs revealed creamy, recrystallized snow on sprawling, mellow terrain. Then, she turned it up a notch. Or two. Our 3rd and 4th runs […]

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Miles Clark | April 10, 2025
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Valdez, AK, Report: Heli-Assisted Backcountry Touring Some Classic Alaska Ramps

Report from April 2, 2025 On Wednesday, I was assigned to Standby Guide here at Pulseline Adventure in Valdez, AK. This means I spend the day at the airport, ready to assist in a rescue if one goes down. Plans changed when a group of heli-skiers decided to go heli-touring. Boom! I was picked to take them for a walk. […]

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Miles Clark | April 6, 2025
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Valdez, AK, Report: 9 Runs of April Fools’ Day Fun in Some of the Most Gorgeous Terrain Imaginable

Report from April 1, 2025 On April Fools’ Day, 2025, we skied 9 runs in good, recrystallized powder snow. “Alaskan Velvet,” if you will. We started the day on the Pencil Glacier, bumped over to the Woodworth, and ended on the Tasnuna. I liked all the runs. I liked all the snow. We skied some steeper stuff like Kozak off […]

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Miles Clark | April 5, 2025
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Valdez, AK Report: 4/20 = The Best Day of the Heli-Season Via 5 World Class Runs

Report from April 20, 2023 On April 20, 2023, I paired up with lead guide Jess Baker and headed into Pulseline Adventure‘s coveted Forest Service terrain. The Pencil Glacier. This zone epitomizes Alaska heli-skiing. We rattled off seven runs in this zone, and everyone one of them was special. Five of these runs were world-class. We skied one of them twice […]

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Miles Clark | June 13, 2023
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Valdez, AK Report: Skiing Above Lake Tahoe, I Mean, Valdez Harbor With 3 World Cup Ski Racers

Report from April 2, 2023 On April 2nd, we skied directly above Lake Tahoe, I mean, Valdez Harbor with World Cup ski racers Travis Ganong, Steve Nyman, Marie Gagnon with Pulseline Adventure. We also got to ski with our good buddies Jeff and Gabe 🙂 It was a an all-time crew. The views were horribly good. The snow was a […]

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Miles Clark | April 6, 2023
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Trip Report: 7,193′ Mt. Benet, AK – 50º Steep for 1,000-Vertical-Feet, Bergshrund, w/ World Cup Skier Travis Ganong

Report from April 9th, 2022 On Saturday we skied six glorious runs with clients: four in a fun spine zone, one on the dazzling White Wall, one on the very steep Jacques Cousteau with Pulseline Adventure heliskiing. Valdez, AK Report: White Room & Jacques Cousteau Steeps After skiing high-quality powder all day, we returned to the Valdez Aiport to hang […]

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Miles Clark | April 15, 2022
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[VIDEO] SnowBrains 2020/21 Alaska Highlights: Helicopters, Spines, Powder, & Backflips

We spent the entire month of April 2021 skiing in Alaska, traveling around, chasing snow and good times. This was our 13th ski trip to Alaska (damn we’re getting old…). Within 12-hours of landing in Anchorage, we were flying in a helicopter with Triple Point Expeditions skiing some of the highest quality powder we’ve ever laid into in Alaska. After […]

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Miles Clark | November 1, 2021
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Alyeska, AK Report: Final Bonus Weekend, Wiggles, and Pristine Weather!

Report from Sunday, May 23 Brought to you by 10 Barrel Brewing Alyeska Resort, Alaska – Sunday, May 23 marked the final day of lift-accessed skiing in Alaska for the 2021 ski season. Alyeska had one final bonus weekend, and the spring conditions were off the charts! I live for warm weather spring skiing, and it would be hard to […]

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Dominic Gawel | May 25, 2021
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Pulseline Adventure, AK Report: High-Speed Sluff-Racing With a Rock Star Heli-Crew

Brought to you by Pulseline Adventure Report from April 17, 2021 We took off at 5pm for a sunset photoshoot in the Chugach Range near Valdez, Alaska on Sunday with Pulseline Adventure heli-skiing. Photographer:  Jeff Cricco Athletes: Elyse Saugstad Overall world cup slopestyle champion Colby Stevenson Owen Leeper Bryan Fino Kam Myself It was a long flight up a broken […]

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Miles Clark | April 20, 2021
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Hatcher Pass, AK Closed Due to ‘Historic’ Easter Avalanche Cycle – Photos of Aftermath Released

Several large avalanches broke so large and buried sections of the road running through Hatcher Pass in Alaska last weekend that the Department of Transportation was forced to immediately shut down the pass, located 12 miles north of Palmer. They were playing a waiting game against nature as a ‘historic’ avalanche cycle rained terror throughout parts of Alaska. An Avalanche […]

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AvyBrains | April 6, 2021
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Traveling to Alaska to Ski Last Week Was Cheap, Easy, and Safe

I safely flew to Alaska last week to ski and it was a lot easier than I thought it would be. The entire trip from Salt Lake City, UT took roughly seven hours and cost $507.18 round trip, even after having purchased flights only three weeks in advance. I flew from Salt Lake to Seattle, WA, then direct to Anchorage. […]

Martin Kuprianowicz | February 9, 2021
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Alyeska, AK Report: Pristine Powder on the High Traverse

Brought to you by 10 Barrel Brewing Co. Report from February 5, 2021 I got to use my powder skis today. Today was day four in a row at Alyeska Resort and it was easily the best day since I got here on Monday. A funky inversion-layer hovered halfway up the mountain today and it was much warmer and sunnier at […]

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Martin Kuprianowicz | February 5, 2021
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Alyeska Resort, AK Report: Tough Tree-Skiing, Hard-Charging Bowls, & 3-Minute Tram Rides

Brought to you by 10 Barrel Brewing Co. Report from February 4, 2021 Today was foggy and fun.  Tough visibility up top made for creative line choices at the mid-to-lower portions of the resort today.  I went exploring in some trippy-looking trees off a run called Bear Trap.  The snow here was firm, fast, and quite ferocious honestly—you didn’t want to […]

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Martin Kuprianowicz | February 5, 2021
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Alyeska Resort, AK Report: Dr. Seuss Tree-Skiing, Beautiful Bootpacks, and 4″ of Light, Dry Powder-Snow

Brought to you by 10 Barrel Brewing Co. Report from February 3, 2021 Variety is the spice of life. So we spiced it up today. Tree-skiing, speedy groomers, powdered bootpacks, wide-open bowls—we skied a lot of varying terrain today at Alyeska Resort. I woke up this morning to a reported four-inches of new snow—a lovely refresh compared to the freezing, firm […]

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Martin Kuprianowicz | February 4, 2021
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