Hometown Mountain Shoutout: Sugar Bowl, CA—More Snow and Fewer People Throughout my childhood in Berkeley, California, I only found it easy to wake up early for the 5:30 a.m. alarm that would sometimes come on weekends. A 5:30 a.m. alarm meant we could be out of the house by 6:00 a.m., in Sacramento, California, by 7 a.m., seeing the first snow by 8 a.m., and parked in the Judah lot […] Oliver Van Dusen | November 19, 2024 0 Comments
Tahoe Backcountry Alliance Film Fest at Sportsbasement Bay Area, CA, December 8 & 9 The Tahoe Backcountry Alliance is hosting two nights of film fest awesomeness in the Bay Area, California. The film fest will also feature a raffle, drinks, and free swag as always. The film fests will be held at Sportsbasement Presidio, on Friday, December 8, 2023, and Sportsbasement Berkeley, on Saturday, December 9, 2023. The 19th Annual Backcountry Film Festival is a […] Industry News SnowBrains | November 30, 2023 0 Comments
San Francisco’s Dolores Hill Bomb Could Be Done For Good The skating community has lost another classic skate spot to anti-skating infrastructure. Just this week, the San Francisco city government implemented speed bumps on Dolores Hill- the location of the famous (or infamous, depending on who you ask) Dolores Hill Bomb. Related: VIDEO: These Are the Top Skateboarding Moments in the 25-Year History of the X-Games Every July, skaters from […] Crash Spencer Cox | July 24, 2020 4 Comments
Extreme Drought Returns to Northern California: “Challenging Summer for Firefighters,” Fire Weather Researcher Says Drought has returned to Northern California this year with hydrologists calling it ‘extreme.’ Severe drought (D-2) has also expanded south into California’s Bay area, according to NBC meteorologist Rob Mayeda. RELATED: ‘Megadrought’ in Western U.S. Could Be Worse Than Any in Past 1,200 Years SJSU Department of Meteorology & Climate Science’s Dr. Craig Clements, Fire Weather Laboratory Director says that […] Fire Firebrains | April 25, 2020 0 Comments
Californian Bay Area Peak Records Highest Monthly Snowfall EVER A record-breaking 38.1 inches of snow was measured at Lick Observatory atop Mount Hamilton, CA at 4,200-feet elevation February just gone. This was the greatest monthly snowfall total on the San Jose mountain since records began there in 1948, according to the National Weather Service, beating out the previous record from January 1950 of 33.6 inches. February 2019 was a wet […] Weather WeatherBrains | March 15, 2019 2 Comments
Year Round Skiing and Riding in the Bay Area | Kickstarter Campaign to bring Indoor Skiing to San Francisco A startup based in San Francisco has launched a Kickstarter campaign to bring an indoor ski center and fitness facility to the Bay Area. The Kickstarter page describes Urban Snow as: …an indoor ski and snowboard center and fitness facility coming to the Bay Area. We will make it possible for skiers and snowboarders to spend more time doing the sports […] Industry News Steven Agar | November 21, 2017 0 Comments
Strange Wind Event In Bay Area Leaves Thousands Without Power September 11, 2017- Around 11 thousand PG&E customers were left without power in the San Francisco Bay Area,CA today after an unusual wind event that happened overnight. Trees fell on power lines and caused power outages. Meteorologists said they would have issued a warning if they had seen the weather coming. The wind may have been isolated in small pockets enough to […] Weather LadyBrains | September 11, 2017 0 Comments
VIDEO: California Dream Day with Jeremy Jones | Snowboard, Rock Climbing, Surfing, Mountain Biking What does a perfect day mean to you? Jeremy Jones, Hilaree O’Neill, Matt Hunter and Greg Long group together to make this short film about their dream day. Sponsored by Clif Bar, this short takes us around California between the Sierras and the Bay. Jeremy Jones, “To me, all these sports are a tool to connect with nature, learn about […] Surf Keenan Grady | May 20, 2016 0 Comments
Travel Tips: How To Go Back to the Bay Driving home from a local resort the other day – a holiday Sunday – I felt pangs of sympathy for my fellow skiers and snowboarders in their cars. I only had a 10 minute drive home, but most of them had 3+ hours of interstate between them and their homes in SanWalnutCreekJoseMarinPalo AltoBerkeleyOaklandFrancisco. Cruel, cruel fate. I warmed myself with the knowledge that they all assuredly had multiple episodes of Serial synched to their Bluetooth-enabled Lexus, but I knew that that could only get them so far. I vowed at that moment to use my local knowledge and this media pulpit to help my fellow man and woman […] Guest Author | January 28, 2015 17 Comments
Teton Gravity Research Aerial Reel | The Bay Area in 4K See the Bay Area as you’ve never seen it before. Kinda makes you feel good to know that TGR thinks the Bay is bitchin’ enough to pull off this stunt. TGR: From the Golden Gate Bridge to Alcatraz to the Bay Lights at night, see the Bay Area’s most iconic locations like you’ve never seen them before. Shot in 4K/”Ultra-HD,” […] SnowBrains | April 2, 2013 2 Comments
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