West Coast Road Trip: Useful Tips and Photo Tour We like traveling by car and have done numerous road trips in our Subaru, including a couple of cross-country trips from the San Francisco Bay Area to New York City and back. Some may think that flying is more convenient, and we donโt argue with that. For us, itโs more of a personal choice and convenience to get all the […] Claire Weiss | August 8, 2024 0 Comments
Almost A Century of Fun: A Brief History of Pond Skimming For many years, spring skiing has brought forth sunshine and smiles, bikinis and bathing suits, and most famously, the pond skim. People have been using skis or variations of skis dating thousands of years back for transportation, hunting, and recreation. The concept of water skiing and skimboarding came to fruition in the early 1920s. So when did these all get […] Brains John Cunningham | April 3, 2024 0 Comments
Canada’s 2023/2024 Ski Season Kicks Off in Banff Banff’s highly anticipated ski season has officially started. On Friday, November 3rd, Mount Norquay and Lake Louise Ski Resort officially opened for the 2023/2024 winter. The combination of cold temperatures, early snow, and help from the snowguns have built enough of a base for Banff’s ski resorts to start turning the lifts. With 13″ (35cm) of snow in the last […] Mike Humphrey | November 3, 2023 0 Comments
Sunshine Village Ski Area in Banff, Alberta, Reports First Snowfall of the Season We are still in the month of August and summer is rapidly coming to an end in some parts of North America. It has definitely been a very active year for Mother Nature this year with extreme weather affecting people around the world ranging from flooding, wildfires, hurricanes, and record amounts of snowfall. Every day we are getting closer to […] Industry News Gregg Frantz | August 24, 2023 0 Comments
Arsonist Burns Charleston Residence at Lake Louise Ski Resort, Alberta The Charleston Residence, an employee housing complex at Lake Louise Ski Resort also known as โChuck Townโ burned to the ground on July 3rd, leaving 165 tenants without a home. The fire started in the afternoon and quickly spread throughout the building, which eventually collapsed in on itself as it was reduced to rubble.ย Many of the 165 residents of […] Industry News Tate Sundberg | July 7, 2023 1 Comment
Inbounds Avalanche at Sunshine Village, AB | Special Warning Issued by Avalanche Canada As temperatures begin to warm up at ski resorts across North America, several in-bounds avalanches have started to occur in recent days. One of the ski areas that experienced a slide was Sunshine Village, a resort in the Canadian Rockies in the province of Alberta. Related: 22-Year-Old Killed by Inbounds Avalanche in Closed Area of Lake Louise Ski Resort, AB […] Avalanche Matt Scribner | May 2, 2023 1 Comment
[VIDEO] Skiing the Funnel of Death Couloir on Bow Peak, Banff National Park, AB [arve url="https://youtu.be/aqoEsx9NYrM"] SnowBrains | June 13, 2022 Likes Tweets 0 Comments
NASA: Losing a Long-Watched Glacier Peyto Glacier in Banff National Park is among the most closely monitored glaciers in the world. In 1968, the United Nations selected Peyto as a reference glacier for the International Hydrological Decade research initiative. Ever since, teams of scientists have traveled to the Canadian Rockies regularly to conduct fieldwork and calculate changes in the mass of the glacier, providing the […] SnowBrains | May 3, 2022 0 Comments