Pats Peak, NH, Report: The People’s Ski Resort Through and Through Report from Friday, January 10, 2025 Suppose you survey the attitudes of skiers across North America to see where the biggest areas of improvement lie for most ski areas. In that case, one can quickly identify a couple of things: access, affordability, and inclusion. These concepts, as simple as they are, are currently not being fulfilled by many of the […] Conditions Report Liam Abbott | January 15, 2025 0 Comments
Top 5 Weekend Ski Destinations From Boston With a population of about 650,000 (as of 2022), Boston, Massachusetts, is a bustling metropolis that is not often known for the skiing around it. With that being said, there are a multitude of amazing skiing destinations, perfect for a weekend trip, within just a few hours of Boston. The purpose of this article is to show Bostonians, or just […] Industry News Jake Benton | July 16, 2024 0 Comments
Blue Hills Ski Area, MA, Seeking Proposals for Recreation Operations Blue Hills Ski Area, located 17 miles south of downtown Boston, Massachusetts, and 35 miles north of Providence, Rhode Island, is formally accepting proposals for recreation operations and a 25-year lease for the ski area. In efforts to keep year-round activities operating at the space, the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation (‘DCR’) is actively seeking interested parties who are […] Industry News Noah DeVries | March 17, 2024 3 Comments
Does Obesity in U.S. Cities Correlate with Their Proximity to Ski Resorts? This week, Wallethub.com published its findings on 2021’s Most Overweight and Obese Cities in the U.S. In the report, Wallethub listed the top 100 most populated metro areas in the United States and ranked them based on 19 categories that they determined indicate weight-related problems. Some of these categories include the highest percentage of obese adults, the highest percentage of […] Brains Liam Abbott | March 5, 2021 0 Comments
Top Five Cities in the World for Urban Skiing Number Five: Denver, Colorado Some of the most legendary ski segments have been filmed in Denver, Colorado. These include segments from Tanner Hall’s new short film “Eternal” and Ahmet Dadali’s opening segment in Level 1‘s 2010 flick “Eye Trip.” Ahmet closes with a famous S-rail transfer in Denver that helped him win IF3’s (International Freeski Film Fest) Best Male Performance. […] Industry News Dominic Gawel | December 22, 2020 0 Comments
Saddleback Mountain, ME Expected To Reopen In 2020 More than 4 years ago, Saddleback Mountain closed their operations and have not reopened since. Today the ski resort sees new hope, as Arctaris Impact Fund, a Boston based investment company, has agreed to buy it. The mountain is expected to reopen for skiing sometime between Thanksgiving and Christmas of 2020. Saddleback is a ski resort located in Rangeley, in […] Industry News Micho | November 13, 2019 0 Comments
Bomb Cyclone Knocking Out Power And Making Travel Dangerous In The Northeast Hurricane force winds are pummeling New England on Thursday morning, 10/17/19 as a storm known as a bomb cyclone is knocking out power and disrupting travel in the region through the end of the workweek. The storm “is now parked over southern New England with the pressure equivalent to a Category 2 hurricane,” CNN meteorologist Dave Hennen said. Wind gusts […] Weather SnowBrains | October 17, 2019 0 Comments
VIDEO: Skier Pulled Round the Streets of Boston Behind $300k Lamborghini I can’t think of a better use for a $300k supercar! Check out this video, courtesy of aviboston.com During the last major snowstorm, my friend took his brand new Lamborghini Performante out at night when the roads were empty and decided it would be fun to tow his friend along behind him on his skis! I can’t even imagine how […] Steven Agar | January 10, 2018 0 Comments
Two People From Boston, MA Caught in Avalanche & Presumed Dead in Banff, Canada “What we were able to see was snowshoe tracks into avalanche debris with no tracks leading out.” – Tania Peters, Parks Canada Spokesperson Canadian police are reporting that two American snowshoers were caught in an avalanche near Banff, Canada. Their bodies haven’t yet been recovered, but they are presumed to be dead. The avalanche occurred about 20 minutes drive north […] Avalanche AvyBrains | March 16, 2017 0 Comments
Doctors Experiment With Alternative Torn A.C.L. Solutions In the active sports world that we live in, injuries are common: unfortunately one of those most common injuries is a torn ACL. As it stands the traditional way of repairing the Anterior Cruciate Ligament is through grafting a piece of ligament from either the hamstring or the patella. This technique is generally fairly successful, but after looking at […] Keenan Grady | March 28, 2016 1 Comment
U.S. Grand Prix Big Air Coming To Boston’s Fenway Park This Week According to Skiing Magazine, Fenway Park in Boston, MA will be home to a U.S. Grand Prix Big Air competition on February 11th and 12th. The U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association (USSA) influenced the Grand Prix tour to make a stop at the famous ballpark. 20 women and 40 mean have been invited to compete in the FIS sanctioned event […] Industry News Chris Wallner | February 9, 2016 0 Comments
The 70-Foot Boston Snow Pile Has FINALLY Melted… At its peak, March 27, 2015, the Boston Snow Farm was about 70 feet tall. April and May brought lower temps than normal and very little rain so the snow took an unusually long time to melt. Here is the result. Thanks to Bill and Amanda at Choicestream for their creative help. – Kevin McGurnThe Boston Snow Pile was still 12-feet tall last week. This week, it’s finally gone. Here are before and after photos and a timelapse video of the pile melting down.Finally – The Snow is Gone! After a historic winter of record breaking snowfall, the last known snow from the Winter of 2015 has melted as of […] Industry News SnowBrains | July 15, 2015 0 Comments
Boston Still Has a 12-Foot Tall Pile of Snow… Boston got a record 110-inches of snow this past winter and they’re still dealing with some of the remnants of the powerful winter that was. Boston’s Seaport district still has a 12-foot high pile of snow laying on the ground. It’s July and Boston still has snow from winter. Crazy, right? The Seaport district has 11 “snow farms” built to deal with the abundance of snow in Boston this past winter. The 12-foot snow pile in the image above was once 75-feet tall and covered 4 acres. Nowadays, the snow pile in Seaport is pretty funky. “As it’s been melting, it’s gotten pretty gross, Industry News SnowBrains | July 6, 2015 2 Comments
Mayor Tells Bostonians to Stop Jumping from Windows After four huge storms have slammed Boston with 8 feet of snow, the city’s residents are starting to get a little stir-crazy. A new social media challenge has spread: the #BostonBlizzardChallenge has “daredevils” leaping from windows into the enormous snow piles below. Mayor Martin Walsh made a statement earlier this week asking residents to “stop their nonsense” and act responsibly.“It’s a foolish thing to do and you could kill yourself,” he said. ameliatraynor | February 18, 2015 1 Comment
Fenway Park Buried in 3 Feet of Snow With just two months until opening day, the Red Sox better pray for warm weather. Fenway Park is buried under 3 to 4 feet of snow, following Boston’s snowiest 30-day period in history. While the Red Sox head down to Fort Myers for spring training, Boston will be digging out after another storm on Saturday and Sunday. Huge amounts of snow have made for rare avalanche conditions in snow piles on the streets of Boston. Bean Town has seen almost 72 inches in the span of 18 days, making it the ninth snowiest winter in the city’s history. ameliatraynor | February 13, 2015 2 Comments
“Avalanche Conditions” in Boston A huge dump in Boston is creating avalanche conditions adjacent to sidewalks. From an email, “It’s actually a pretty scary situation here in Boston, there’s a pretty a serious instability in the snow pack, we’re seeing these massive avalanche crowns, and anything on even moderate slopes are sliding with minimal pressure. It’s so rare in the east that people don’t know how to handle it, notice a few pics of the large crown’s I took. We’re experiencing these massive slides into already shoveled sidewalks and roads, and people are […] Avalanche ameliatraynor | February 12, 2015 3 Comments