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 Bakerย 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 […] Conditions Report Miles Clark | June 13, 2023 0 Comments
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 ๐ It was a an all-time crew. The views were horribly good. The snow was a […] Conditions Report Miles Clark | April 6, 2023 0 Comments
Trip Report: 7,193′ Mt. Benet, AK – 50ยบ 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 […] Conditions Report Miles Clark | April 15, 2022 6 Comments
[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 […] Featured Video Miles Clark | November 1, 2021 0 Comments
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 […] Conditions Report Dominic Gawel | May 25, 2021 0 Comments
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:ย 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 […] Conditions Report Miles Clark | April 20, 2021 0 Comments
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 […] Avalanche AvyBrains | April 6, 2021 0 Comments
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 0 Comments