[VIDEO] Andri Ragettli Sets World Record For Most Backflips in 30 Seconds In the above video, “I Did a World-Record!”, Andri Ragettli attempts to break a world record by doing as many backflips as possible in 30 seconds. After spending four hours building jumps and practicing, he manages to do seven backflips but feels he could do more. Later, he announces that he has officially set a new personal world record by […] Industry News SnowBrains | May 9, 2023 0 Comments
[VIDEO] 60-Year-Old Guys Throwing Backflips When you know there’s less road in front of you than behind you you start doing things before it’s too late and you can’t. My longtime friend John Witt and I did just that. We made a pact a couple of years back as we were sitting around having a few beers that we’d throw backflips when we turned 60 […] SnowBrains | March 25, 2022 0 Comments
Alyeska, AK Report: Evening Backflips Over the Ocean on Closing Day View this post on Instagram A post shared by SnowBrains (@snowbrains) Brought to you by 10 Barrel Brewing Report from April 21, 2021 Yesterday was closing day at Alyeska Ski Resort in Girdwood, AK (they’ll reopen for 3 more weekends starting May 8) and we took full advantage. This place has scoopy jumps etched into it all over the […] Conditions Report Miles Clark | April 26, 2021 0 Comments
VIDEO: Top 10 Backflips From Freeride World Tour 2021 [arve url="https://youtu.be/plgAcb2cC5c"] SnowBrains | April 26, 2021 Likes Tweets 0 Comments
Squaw Valley, CA Report: 3 Laps in “The Fingers”, Backflips, Crazy Fun Chute 75s [arve url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geaHIOg2Ifc&feature=youtu.be&ab_channel=YouTubeMovies"] Miles Clark | February 4, 2021 Likes Tweets 0 Comments
VIDEO: Deer Valley men’s aerials, 1st place: a never been done 3 backflips & 5 spins [arve url="https://youtu.be/-gGSCu0fDdQ"] SnowBrains | February 11, 2020 Likes Tweets 0 Comments
Squaw Valley, CA VIDEO: Vicious Crashes, Double Backflips, Triple Backflips, & Everlasting Glory on Sunday… [arve url="https://www.facebook.com/alex.knuuttunen/videos/10103544464796041/"] Alex K | December 5, 2018 173 Likes 1 Tweet 0 Comments
VIDEO: BIG Backflips & Bergshrund Chimney Session at Squaw Valley, CA Yesterday [arve url="https://youtu.be/jjYlKBt2SLA"] Miles Clark | May 26, 2017 107 Likes 15 Tweets 1 Comment
VIDEO: They’re Already Throwing Backflips, 360ºs, & Ripping Main Chute in 12″ of New Snow at Alta, UT Wow, a few guys got motivated and skied Main Chute of Mt. Baldy at Alta ski resort in Utah this past Saturday, September 24th, 2016 in 12″ of snow. They threw in a few backflips and 360ºs, just for safe measure. “An unusually early snow storm dumped over a foot of snow in the Wasatch on September 22-24, 2016. While […] SnowBrains | September 26, 2016 1 Comment
Temple Basin, NZ Conditions Report: Powder & Backflips Temple Basin has always been a place I have wanted to ski. Tales of long hikes and a rickety goods lift always left my mind sceptical about the idea venturing into the unknown. But news came Wednesday of a possible 80cm snowfall to the Craigieburn range and excitement led me to instantly book flights down to Christchurch […] Conditions Report Guest Author | September 2, 2015 2 Comments
VIDEO: Crazy Cliff Jumping & Slack Lining at Emerald Pools, CA Emerald Pools, CA is a legendary place. Amazing cliff jumping, great swimming, gorgeous views, terrific hiking, friendly water snakes, and plenty of room for adventure. Working your way down stream seeking out cliff jumping spots and solid swimming holes is a great way to pass the day. These boys give us a show of what can be done off the bigger cliffs at Emerald Pools. Goliath is a monster, both literally and figuratively. To get to Emerald Pools is easy. Just turn off 80 onto 20 and pull of the highway where the water flows uphill. Cliff Jumping SnowBrains | August 25, 2015 0 Comments
Squaw Valley Conditions Report: Big Powder / Small Backflips Squaw and Alpine have been on fire for the past week. We’ve had nothing but quality powder skiing since last Friday. Squaw has gotten 32″ of snow in the past 7 days. Yesterday was a full-on powder day with 7″ of new snow at Squaw and Granite Chief had been closed the previous day. Granite was pillowy, poppy, fluffy, deep, and fun all yesterday morning. Once satisfied with the Granite goodness we headed over to Siberia and skied Reverse Traverse Hogs Back laps with free wind-blown Today we cleaned up the leftovers on Granite in the morning and threw backflips off the “Fat Lip” jump until Max did a 1.25 flip and hit hard. He’s 20 […] Conditions Report SnowBrains | December 17, 2014 1 Comment
VIDEO: Backcountry Backflips in Big Patagonia Terrain I think it’s safe to say we just had the best week of the season here at Catedral ski resort in Bariloche, Argentina. On Monday, September 7th, the storm came in strong enough to close the mountain entirely. It was cold and windy storm that snowed to the bottom of the mountain. Spots in La Laguna had over 5 feet of snow laying around. I’d say that in general, the upper mountain got about 2 feet of quality snow. Tuesday was good in bounds. […] Conditions Report Miles Clark | September 15, 2014 0 Comments
Wet Pow and Backflips, Alaska is Starting to go Off|Alyeska, AK Conditions Report With a season snowfall total of 212″, just 4″ below that of Jackson, Alyeska in Girdwood Alaska is having one of its worst seasons on record. After an unusually dry December in Alaska, January is proving to be a lot better, albeit a lot warmer, with snow, and sometimes rain in the forecast for the next week out. And yesterday delivered with 6+” […] Conditions Report Jesse Cassidy | January 15, 2014 0 Comments
Siberia & Shirley Lake Open @ Squaw Valley | Photo Tour: Squaw Valley had announced that they’d open Shirley Lake today, but to everyone’s shock and awe, they opened Siberia as well. Let us qualify that. They opened the hike to Siberia. The chair never moved. This system made it pretty darned fun, though. The hike was refreshing and the snow was perfect. Recrystallized powder rewarded all the hikers of Siberia today. […] Conditions Report Miles Clark | December 21, 2013 2 Comments
Shane McConkey Tribute Video | 36 Seconds of Awesome Aerial Nudity We all know that Shane liked to ski naked. How can you not laugh when you see a guy ski by naked? Now take that guy and have him do a hideously wide spread eagle? Snickering yet? Ok, we’ll up the ante. Take that naked guy, have him do a hideously wide spread eagle while doing a backflip so that […] SnowBrains | April 17, 2013 5 Comments
11 & 13-Year Old Throwing Backflips All Day Long @ Squaw Valley This is very fun to watch. Could you imagine throwing flips and tricks like this at age 11 or 13? Parker Russell and his kid brother Nick are two of the classiest kids at Squaw Valley. They also happen to be two of the best skiers at Squaw…and they’re only 13 and 11 years old respectively. They live about 4 […] Miles Clark | April 15, 2013 5 Comments