accesso® Partners with California Mountain Resorts Company to Revolutionize the Skiing Experience with Integrated Resort App Network Ski Tech Leader to Power Five Unique Mobile Apps, Unifying the Experience Across Network Resorts accesso Technology Group (AIM: ACSO), the premier technology solutions provider for attractions and venues worldwide, today announced a groundbreaking partnership with California Mountain Resorts Company (CMRC). This collaboration introduces an unparalleled skiing experience through the development and integration of five distinct mobile apps: the all-new […] SnowBrains | December 7, 2023 0 Comments
Revolutionary New Backcountry App Will Help Manage Avalanche Risk AspectAvy is a new app launching on November 24, 2023, that aims to eliminate avalanche fatalities in the backcountry. The tool aims to prevent 100% of avalanche fatalities by providing decision-making resources that take human error out of backcountry travel. Related: Another Deadly Year for Colorado Skiing How does it work? AspectAvy has researched avalanches and avalanche death data over […] Avalanche Brent Thomas | November 10, 2023 0 Comments
New App Launches for Outdoor Lovers to Log Stoke Stoke Log LLC is thrilled to announce the launch of our signature passion project, the Stoke Log app. A personal adventure journal, the app is designed for the outdoor sports enthusiast who wants to capture their experience and connect with the who, what, and where of the adventure in order to improve their performance, experience, and recollection. Related: 5 of […] SnowBrains | October 5, 2023 0 Comments
Travis Rice and Cameron Zink Launch SENDY, an Online Gear Hub Adventure sports legends Travis Rice and Cameron Zink are proud to announce SENDY, an online gear hub. SENDY is an online marketplace and Gear Hub that lets community members buy, sell, and rent adventure sports equipment anywhere in North America. It is designed to get more people outside, and more people connecting with each other, the natural world, and their own true […] Industry News SnowBrains | November 23, 2022 0 Comments
CommuniSki Launches Android and iOS Apps | Ski Community App Covers Every North American Resort CommuniSki just started a revolution in the winter sports industry by launching its free Android and iOS apps, providing extensive functionality to skiers, boarders, resorts, and the businesses and organizations that support the industry. Try CommuniSki | Download for FREE now Skiers & boarders get GPS tracking (with live buddy locations), 16-day weather forecasts, a community-driven resort database covering every […] Industry News SnowBrains | November 19, 2022 1 Comment
New onX Backcountry App Increases Avalanche Preparedness The latest product from the outdoors-focused company onXmaps is the app onX Backcountry. This newest offering is the third in onX’s lineup of GPS-oriented apps dedicated to outdoorsmen and explorers. With the number of backcountry skiers having increased dramatically in recent decades, the need for a product tailored toward those leaving the resorts behind has never been greater. The app […] Backcountry Jake Vigesaa | December 1, 2021 0 Comments
New App Allows RCMP to Track Missing and Injured People in the British Columbia Backcountry [arve url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJyytCbx17w"] Dominic Gawel | March 12, 2021 Likes Tweets 0 Comments
New App to Keep Track of Friends & Family on the Slopes It’s a common problem: you’re skiing with your family and friends and decide to go one way, but the group splits into three, and all of a sudden, you are spread across the mountain. You play telephone tag, trying to identify where you are and how to get back to each other. Now, there is an app trying to make […] Gear Liam Abbott | March 8, 2021 0 Comments
TreadShare Carpooling App Hoped to Combat I-70 Mayhem | Colorado Just Shut it Down… TreadShare, a Frisco, CO-based ride-sharing app that launched on December 16th, 2019 had hoped to be one solution to the chaos that is I-70 in Colorado. Unfortunately, shortly after the launch, the state of Colorado issued the app with a ‘cease and desist’ letter, causing them and another similar app to shutdown. Related: TreadShare: The New Ride-Sharing App For Colorado’s Front […] Industry News SnowBrains | February 11, 2020 0 Comments
Amplify Your Adventure with the New Ikon Pass Mobile App for Winter 2019/20 [arve url="https://youtu.be/3Hw0Tx1EyxI"] SnowBrains | November 22, 2019 Likes Tweets 2 Comments
SkiBuds App: Tinder for Skiers and Riders? Have you ever been desperate to hit the slopes but couldn’t convince any of your family or friends to brave the snowy weather with you? A free new app, SkiBuds, hopes to connect strangers at the same hill together so you’ll never have to ski or ride alone again. SkiBuds was founded in 2018 and they have been hard at […] Industry News Lucy Ferneyhough | November 8, 2019 9 Comments
what3words: A Simplified and Possible Lifesaving Location App The smartphone app, what3words, can pinpoint a location using three randomly assigned words. The developers of the app divided the world into 57 trillion squares, each square measuring 10ft by 10ft (3m by 3m). Every square was then assigned its own three-word address. For example, the three-word address for Mount Shasta’s summit is ‘clued.speakers.amount’. The app is already being used in […] Taliana Potts | August 21, 2019 0 Comments
New NOAA App Brings Cool Earth and Space Animations to Your Phone An enormous earthquake, the most powerful ever recorded, rocked southern Chile on May 22, 1960, and created a tsunami that raced across the Pacific Ocean. As giant waves rippled outward, they sped along the shore and bounced back and forth off islands, battering Chile with waves up to 82 feet tall. The astonishing patterns of waves reflecting and refracting across […] Weather WeatherBrains | August 16, 2019 0 Comments
Snowbird Ski Resort, UT Releases Industry First Carpooling App | 309 Rides in First Day Snowbird Ski Resort in Utah has launched an app aimed at increasing carpooling for skiers and snowboarders heading up Little Cottonwood Canyon. Developers hope the Snowbird RIDE app will alleviate canyon congestion and improve air quality, reports KSLTV. Designed to help reduce carbon dioxide emissions and traffic congestion in Little Cottonwood Canyon, the R.I.D.E. (Reducing Individual Driving for the Environment) program rewards you when […] Industry News SnowBrains | February 20, 2019 0 Comments
Apple Watch Series 4 Available Today | Huge Improvements for Tracking Your Day on the Slopes Today Apple released the Apple Watch Series 4, fundamentally redesigned and re-engineered to help you stay even more active, healthy, and connected. In the first real redesign since the watch was first revealed to the world in 2015, the new watch features a 30% larger display, in a thinner and lighter case, and features more advanced heart rate features. But what […] Gear SnowBrains | September 21, 2018 0 Comments
7 Free Ski Apps You Must Have This Winter When we put our boots on, we disconnect from everything around us. We fail to keep an eye on our watches, we turn our cell-phones off, and we begin to enjoy the snow under our skis. However, there are several free smartphone apps that will really improve our experience on the mountain, without taking away that fresh spirit of freedom […] Matias Ricci | December 15, 2015 0 Comments
VIDEO: This Avalanche App Could Save Your Life This Avatech app is genius because it allows people to share real time snowpack information and avalanche observations. This app is badass and if you ski/ride the backcountry, we highly recommend acquiring this app. AVATECH PRESS RELEASE: PARK CITY, Utah (November 18, 2015) Avatech, an outdoor technology company focused on developing breakthrough, mountain safety technologies, announces the launch of Avanet, […] Avalanche AvyBrains | November 18, 2015 0 Comments