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 Review 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