Ski Lift on Fonna Glacier Ski Resort, Norway, Buried by Over 30 Feet of Snow Fonna Glacier Ski Resort is located on the Folgefonna Glacier in Norway, and it is one of three summer-only ski areas in the country. The ski area plans to open for the season on May 17 this year. When the crew began work for the upcoming season, Mother Nature decided to play ‘hide the ski lift’. Buried by over 10 […] Industry News Luke Guilford | March 5, 2024 0 Comments
A Photo Tour of the Buried Houses of Mammoth Lakes, CA | Spring 2023 Photos from May 2 & 3, 2023 We just arrived in Mammoth Lakes, CA, on Monday, and we cannot believe how much snow is here. The houses are still absolutely buried. Related: A Photo Tour of the Buried Chairlifts at Mammoth Mountain, CA We drove around town today and yesterday and took these photos of the most buried houses we […] Conditions Report SnowBrains | May 4, 2023 0 Comments
[PHOTOS] Buried Cars in South Lake Tahoe, CA, are Starting to Reappear Record snowfall in Lake Tahoe, CA, has buried ski resorts and houses this season. However, they weren’t the only thing getting buried. Cars that got caught in the storms were stranded as well. Related: A Photo Tour of the Buried Houses of Lake Tahoe, CA – SnowBrains Now those cars are showing themselves, so owners can finally answer the question, […] Industry News Brent Glogau | April 13, 2023 0 Comments
Avalanche Buries Patroller at Steamboat Resort, CO A patroller at Steamboat Resort, CO, was caught and buried in an avalanche while performing mitigation work in a closed area on Tuesday, the resort has shared on Facebook. Related: Should We Pay Ski Patrollers More? The patroller was quickly located and dug out by his colleagues, Loryn Duke, director of communications for Steamboat Ski & Resort Corp, told the Steamboat Pilot. […] Avalanche AvyBrains | December 8, 2022 1 Comment
VIDEO: Buried – Documentary About Alpine Meadows, CA, Avalanche Disaster That Killed 7 is in Theatres Now [arve url="https://youtu.be/8z1Mo3Iiq4Q"] AvyBrains | October 3, 2022 Likes Tweets 3 Comments
[VIDEO] Terrifying Race to Rescue Skier Buried in Deep Snow After Cliff Jump @jj_gold808The scariest moment of my life Digging out @jeremy.pboosted. Snow immersion suffocation (SIS) is very real. Doesn’t matter how good you are.##neardeath♬ original sound – Josh Snow immersion suffocation is real. And scary. Your day can go from good to bad in a matter of seconds, as this intense video shows. The scariest moment of my life Digging out @jeremy.pboosted […] SnowBrains | January 3, 2022 3 Comments
[VIDEO] Dramatic Rescue of Dog Caught in Colorado Avalanche He Triggered [arve url="https://youtu.be/yTDwJesHFtg"] AvyBrains | January 3, 2022 Likes Tweets 3 Comments
[PHOTOS] Mammoth Mountain’s 24-Foot Tall Summit Sign Has Been Buried Under Snow To put into scale the amount of snow that just fell on California, check out these images of the iconic Mammoth Mountain summit sign yesterday. This sign is 24-feet tall. And is almost buried. Woah! If you know, you know. Make sure to swipe through… and in case you forgot, the summit sign is 24’ tall. 🤯 – Mammoth Instagram Post The […] SnowBrains | December 15, 2021 0 Comments
Preliminary Report: Backcountry Skier Killed in Avalanche near Crested Butte, CO Crested Butte, CO – On Friday, December 18th, 2020, a solo skier was caught and killed in a persistent slab avalanche on the northwest end of the Anthracite Range. A group of two skiers noticed he had not returned to his snowmobile and saw a recent avalanche where the victim intended to ski. The two skiers extracted the skier using […] Avalanche Dominic Gawel | December 18, 2020 0 Comments
VIDEO: Frightening Clip Shows Snowmobilers Triggering and Getting Buried in Colorado Avalanche The Colorado Avalanche Information Center shared this scary video over the weekend, as a warning to all of us: How and where we impact known buried weak layers can mean the difference between a no-feedback, “routine” run and triggering a dangerous avalanche on that same piece of terrain. This video of an avalanche incident near Leadville in Birdseye Gulch from […] Avalanche AvyBrains | February 25, 2020 0 Comments
Avalanche Carried and Buried 2 Snowmobilers in Idaho on Saturday A close call occurred Saturday afternoon when two riders were caught and carried by an avalanche just north of the Idaho State Line in the Bear River Range, reports the Utah Avalanche Center. Related: Tahoe Pro Skier Josh Daiek Barely Escapes Avalanche The party of four was riding a bit northeast of Corral Hollow, near the ridge between Franklin Basin […] Avalanche AvyBrains | December 9, 2019 0 Comments
NOAA: 2018/19 = Northern California’s 4th Wettest Year In The Last 20 Years! Last winter Squaw Valley had its snowiest February EVER. They received 246 inches or 20.5 feet of snow. That’s a record for the month by 50 inches, and only 3 feet from surpassing the snowiest month ever on record (January 2017, 282 inches). The 2018/2019 season at Squaw valley was their 3rd snowiest season ever with 719″ of snowfall. The […] Industry News SnowBrains | October 3, 2019 0 Comments
Lake Tahoe Guy Digs Out Jeep Buried Beneath 10-Feet of Snow Since November A Tesla engineer bought a 2000 Jeep Cherokee in November, but before he could spend much time enjoying it, it ended up buried beneath 10-feet of snow near Lake Tahoe. Within an hour of being bought, a blizzard hit, preventing tow companies from helping, so the engineer left the vehicle for four months to be crushed by 10 feet of […] SnowBrains | May 29, 2019 0 Comments
Mount Hood, OR Patroller Survives After Being Buried in an Avalanche Whilst Working A Mount Hood ski patroller was buried and seriously injured in an avalanche Wednesday afternoon while working in a closed area of the resort, reports OregonLive.com. A trio of patrollers were working in the area when the avalanche occurred, according to a resort spokesman. The patrollers were boot packing in a closed area of the resort, known as God’s Wall, in […] Avalanche Steven Agar | January 26, 2018 0 Comments
VIDEO: Frightening Reminder of How Quickly an Awesome Powder Day Could Go Wrong Watch this video of a group of guys shredding Whistler powder after the recent massive snowfall. It seems fairly innocuous at first, boarders ripping up the pow in the trees just above a catwalk, but quickly goes bad. Watch until the end. The guy filming is a hero! Buy that guy a beer… Steven Agar | January 24, 2018 1 Comment
Dump of the Decade! The Alps are Getting Buried Right Now | Resorts and Roads Closed & Extreme Avalanche Danger It’s a storm that only happens once every thirty years in the French Haute Tarentaise / Haute Maurienne according to MétéoFrance. Check out the forecast which tells you everything about this insane storm in the Alps here. Resorts are closed, roads are closed and it’s no surprise that the avalanche danger is critical in all the regions above. Here’s what we […] Weather Steven Agar | January 9, 2018 2 Comments
VIDEO: Snowboard Botches Cliff Jump & Gets Fully Buried | Skier Has To Dig Him Out [iframe id=”http://players.brightcove.net/4221396001/V19oeQPdg_default/index.html?videoId=5330890320001&applicationId=MIRROR%20Embed%20Offsite”] A snowboarder at Squaw Valley, CA botched a 30 foot cliff and ended up landing at an angle with his head in the snow. After landing, he sank down multiple feet in the snow, so you could just see his board. Luckily, a few people were watching and they rushed over to help. One of the skiers had […] Chris Wallner | February 22, 2017 0 Comments
Over 100 People Killed In Afghanistan & Pakistan Avalanches At least 132 people have died along the Afghan-Pakistani border after three days of heavy snowfall caused a series of deadly avalanches Sunday. Dozens of houses were destroyed and people were reported to have frozen to death, trapped in cars. Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul was closed on Sunday, after nearly 2 feet of snow covered the runways, and north […] Avalanche Matias Ricci | February 6, 2017 0 Comments
Search and Rescue Dog Locates Buried Avalanche Victim in Austria A 19-year-old Austrian man was caught last Wednesday in an avalanche while skiing with friends in Tyrol, and then rescued thanks to an avalanche search and rescue dog, which was able to locate him before it was too late. The man, from Tyrol, was skiing with four friends on fresh powder on Sunday when they triggered an avalanche. Another skier was […] Avalanche Matias Ricci | January 17, 2017 0 Comments
Two Snowboarders Buried, Seriously Injured in Avalanche Outside of Park City, Utah Two snowboarders were rescued late Wednesday night after becoming buried and seriously injured in an avalanche on a backcountry slope near the Smith and Morehouse Reservoir in the Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest. Around 4 p.m. Wednesday, one of the boarders jumped off a cliff, fracturing a large slab of snow. The slide carried one of the men, slamming him into trees on […] Avalanche Matias Ricci | January 16, 2017 0 Comments
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