Snowiest.app: A Free, Multi-Model Snow Forecast Tool to Help You Plan a Ski Trip We’ve all been there: staring at three different weather apps trying to decipher if there will be fresh snow for your day at the resort. The issue isn’t a lack of options or data; it’s that predicting weather patterns and snowfall in the mountains is incredibly difficult, and with so many outlooks available, who can you trust? Enter Snowiest.app, a […] Brains Greg Wedow | February 13, 2026 0 Comments
Shaun White’s New Snow League is Changing Competitive Snowboarding by Deriving Trick Statistics from Thousands of Rider Data Points When it comes to statistics in sports, team sports like baseball and football often come to mind, but Shaun White’s new Snow League is looking to make stats the norm in competition snowboarding. In late July, roughly five months after the first competition in Aspen, Colorado, the Snow League released statistics from its inaugural event via an Instagram post, featuring […] Industry News Quinn Brophy | August 6, 2025 0 Comments
Former Avalanche Forecaster Discovers That Approximately ⅓ of Tourer Fatalities in the U.S. Occurred When Tourers Were Ascending Are you traveling in the backcountry this year? Do you spend most of your time identifying avalanche terrain while traveling uphill or downhill? If you think that most avalanche fatalities occur when tourers are going downhill, then you are correct. BUT a shockingly high percentage of avalanche fatalities still occur when tourers are going uphill—32% percent to be exact, according […] Avalanche AvyBrains | December 9, 2020 0 Comments
Can Artificial Intelligence Improve Your Skiing? You may already be using one of many apps currently in existence to track and record data surrounding skiing performance or achievement. However, a new app claims to not only track data concerning your skiing performance, but to actually provide coaching based on the data collected through the use of artificial intelligence. The system is comprised of a thin, custom […] Gear Jon Roubik | November 2, 2018 0 Comments
New Apple Watch Series 3 to Add Ski and Snowboard Session Tracking 02/28/2018 – UPDATE: Apple adds ability to track ski and snowboard sessions After announcing their latest upgrade to the Apple Watch last week, Apple today released the device to eager consumers. The big news from the Cupertino, CA giant was the addition of a cellular radio to the wrist-worn device, enabling users to make and receive calls, messages, and emails […] Gear Steven Agar | September 22, 2017 7 Comments
February 2016: Earth’s Warmest Month On Satellite Record At this point, climate change is no longer deniable. The evidence is everywhere around us from warmer than average sea surface temperatures to extreme drought and storms. February 2016 was the hottest month ever in the lower atmosphere, as gathered through data from satellites. On average, temperatures were 0.83 degrees Celsius warmer than the long term average, according to […] Weather Keenan Grady | March 8, 2016 2 Comments
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