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 Michael Muchacho | 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