Mt. Bachelor Conditions Report 12/19/13 Photo & Video Upon arriving to Mt. Bachelor at 9:30am, it seemed like the day would be a partly cloudy and beautiful day with glimpses of Broken Top and the Three Sisters through the wispy clouds. An hour into skiing, however, the weather turned for the worse socking the mountain into a blistery white out. The white out was only affecting the skiing […] Conditions Report Bevan Waite | December 22, 2013 1 Comment
7th Annual Dirksen Derby @ Mt. Bachelor, OR It’s only mid December and one of the best snowboarding events of the season has come and gone, the Dirksen Derby. Hosted by Mt Bachelor in Bend Oregon, the Dirksen Derby was created by snowboarding pro Josh Dirksen to help raise money for Tyler Eklund. Tyler became paralyzed in a snowboarding accident in 2007 while practicing for a competition. The Derby raises thousands of dollars and has become a rally call to get Tyler back on the mountain with a little helps from some friends. Now in its 7th season the Derby has grown to be the biggest yet and needed to cap registration at 500 riders. […] SnowBrains | December 17, 2013 0 Comments
Mt. Bachelor OPENS Tomorrow Mt. Bachelor ski resort in Central Oregon will be opening for the 2013/14 winter season tomorrow, November 29th, 2013. They had a limited opening this week with one terrain park open but tomorrow they’ll bust out the big guns. Ski lifts Pine Marten, Skyliner, Sunrise, & Sunrise Accelerator will be open starting tomorrow. We’ve spent the last couple weeks moving snow from the parking lots and placing it in stategic areas around the mountain. Thanks to the hard-work of our Mountain Operations department, we are pleased to announced that the Pine Marten, Skyliner, Sunrise and Sunshine Accelerator lifts will open […] SnowBrains | November 28, 2013 0 Comments
Mt. Bachelor, OR Limited OPENING Tomorrow Mt. Bachelor ski resort in OR will be opening their terrain park tomorrow. They don’t quite have enough snow to get the entire mountain open just yet, so they’re going to open their terrain park and let people have at it until the day before Turkey Day. They’ll be closed for Thanksgiving DAY, then reopen the day after Thanksgiving for the season. As excited as we are to get […] SnowBrains | November 22, 2013 0 Comments
How a Snowflake Forms: 2 Simple Steps… How a snowflake forms is a very interesting, intricate process that we all know almost nothing about. This lack of snowflake genesis knowledge is a shame considering how important snow is to all of our lives and our lives as skiers and riders especially. Below, I’ve spelled out the most simple steps in the development of a snowflake in the simplest terms possible. The birth of every snowflake starts with a tiny microscopic […] Brains Bevan Waite | November 19, 2013 2 Comments
Conditions Report
Brains