Wasatch Dispatch: Code Blue | After the Big Storm After a long steady Wasatch storm cycle, and a lot of greybird skiing, the clouds finally cleared and the powder was waiting to be harvested under a deep blue sky. Fire up boys, we have a CODE BLUEBIRD! Multiple storms added up to multiple feet of new snow. But the best was saved for last, 2 feet of cold Utah blower […] Backcountry John Solder | February 15, 2019 0 Comments
Crystal Mountain, WA. Conditions Report: Deep Powder Days Return Mother nature and old man winter must have mended their problems and kicked off another awesome storm cycle. Some down time of warm and wet days with squishy schmoo, cold groomers and dust on crust was fun to build some skill or finally take a rest day. So last Thrusday when it started to snow again it was a […] Backcountry Reid Pitman | February 25, 2017 0 Comments
VIDEO: Ripping Deep Powder in the Alps Today! Yep, they’re already ripping legit deep powder in the Alps today with some locations reporting up to 35″ of new snow. This video shows us athlete Arthur having way too much fun at Saas Fe in Switzerland. Right now, you could potentially ski powder in Argentina, Chile, New Zealand, Australia, or just go to the place with the best snow right now, Europe! It’s always snowing somewhere… Featured Video SnowBrains | September 24, 2015 0 Comments
Japow! Japan Trip 2015 If you’ve been keeping up to date with Snowbrains.com, then you know founder and CEO Miles Clark has been living a skiers dream out in the Land of The Rising Sun. As I sit here in the beautiful Pacific Northwest, watching ski resort after ski resort reduce their operations due to rising temperatures, I can’t help but feel a certain way towards my boss……. what’s that word, oh right jealousy […] Featured Video Michael Etezadi | March 3, 2015 1 Comment
VIDEO: 10-Seconds of Faceshots in Japan & Faceshots Poem Faceshots. Faceshots are reason why we ski and ride. Faceshots are why we don’t sleep well the night before a big powder day. Faceshots are we wait tables, bartend, ski instruct, lift operate, drive groomers, pour coffees, and avoid the real world. Faceshots are why we are here. A lot is given up for the pleasures of faceshots and it’s most certainly worth it. Faceshots feel like they’re becoming ever more elusive. We have to wait longer, travel further, climb higher for faceshots these days it […] Featured Video Miles Clark | January 20, 2015 0 Comments
Whislter, B.C. Conditions Report: Deep Powder Heli Skiing on an 82″ Base Yesterday Whistler already has an 82″ base… Whoa… Whistler has done this every year for a while now. They get a big pre season dump. they send Mike Douglas and crew out in a heli. Mike D. and crew tears Whistler up for a day. Then they tease the crap out of us with the footage. We love it. To be clear, Whistler is not open yet and they won’t open until November 27th. Although, twice in this video, they mention that they might open earlier… […] Conditions Report SnowBrains | November 2, 2014 1 Comment
Trip Report: Heli-Touring Deep Powder in British Columbia I had never skied snow so deep, so light, so dry. It blew over my head and into my nose and mouth and face. To turn in it was effortless. It was endlessly deep and it was unending. Run after run the conditions were always the same. Perfect powder. It just did not stop snowing. Skin tracks were filled within hours. Runs were renewed like magic. There was no hint that we had been there the day before or even just that morning. When would it stop snowing.? Who cared? There is no such thing as too much snow. [… Trip Report Guest Author | October 21, 2014 2 Comments
VIDEO: TGR’s Award-Winning Austrian DEEP Powder Edit “Fieberbrunn is a placed with gauranteed snow,” said the elder Fieberbrunn local Sepp Pletzenauer when interviewed for the Austria segment of Way Of Life. “It has the open terrain, nobody around, beautiful powder snow, and I just go and make my path.” Sepp’s sagacious outlook on his home terrain proved to be more than accurate. The powder that Sage Cattabriga-Alosa, Dylan Hood, and Colter Hinchcliffe found there after a seven-hour […] SnowBrains | January 23, 2014 0 Comments