With Only Days Left to Live, a Winter-Loving Dog Finds Snow in the Summer with Help from the Internet Snow is amazing. We love it. It is therapeutic. Our lives are better when we spend more time on it. Our canine friends might feel the same way. This was the case with an 11 ½-year-old Bernes Mountain Dog in Calgary, Canada, named Brooke. The dog was sick and only had a couple of days left to live. Her favorite […] Industry News Brent Glogau | September 2, 2022 0 Comments
Missing Dog Found at North Vancouver Ski Area Just in Time For The Holidays A Christmas miracle happened in Grouse Mountain Resort, located in North Vancouver, on December 14th. Luna, a three-year-old rescue dog from Korea, was finally found by the mountain’s operations team after fending for herself for three weeks. The operations team found Luna huddled under the Olympic Express Chairlift, and she was immediately escorted back to her owners on a snowcat […] Haleigh Hafner | December 21, 2021 0 Comments
The Evolution of Ski Patrol: Dogs, Tech, and Love for the Mountains Ski patrol has been part of the ski industry from the very beginning. From ancient monks rescuing travelers in the Alps to drones joining the Aspen Mountain Rescue, the desire to keep each other safe in the mountains is tried and true. Ski patrol today strives to keep up with the ever-changing ski industry. This had led to advanced avalanche mitigation and high […] Avalanche Katy Shipley | August 26, 2021 0 Comments
Puppy Dogs Eyes: How Does Your Dog Feel About You? Recent research into the science behind puppy dog eyes explored on new BBC two-part documentary, Dog Tales: The Making of Man’s Best Friend. The documentary looks at the evolution from wolves to the dog breeds around today. But it more specifically looks into the dog and human relationship which is different from our relationship with other species. The domestic dog […] Brains Rouchelle Gilmore | September 12, 2020 0 Comments
Brains Post: Let A Dog Roam And They Will Find Their Way Home: Here’s How! It’s interesting how often you hear tall tales of dogs, miraculously making their way home against all odds. It happens often enough to make many people wonder. So much so that Virginia Tech, along with the Czech University of Life Sciences conducted a study on just this. Their findings point towards the possibility of these dogs using the earth’s magnetic […] J.T. Pulfer ll | July 31, 2020 0 Comments
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New Study Reveals Dogs Use Earth’s Magnetic Field to Find Their Way Home If you thought dogs could usually find their way home solely because of their keen sense of smell, a new study may intrigue you. Researchers collaborating at the Czech University of Life Sciences and Virginia Tech University tracked the navigation abilities of 27 dogs from over 10 breeds across a period of three years and found that dogs’ sense of […] Brains Galen Carrico | July 29, 2020 0 Comments
Dogs Will Soon Be Joining Us Skiing On The Hills! One of the biggest downsides of ski days is that usually you’re forced to leave your beloved pooch at home. However, dogs may soon be joining us on the hills as dog ski gear is expected to be hitting the markets in the next few months. Dogs have been wearing coats and boots for snowy days for years now, but […] Industry News Lucy Ferneyhough | April 1, 2020 2 Comments
VIDEO: Cheer Yourself Up With Some Jumping Dogs | Can YOUR Pet Jump This High? If the current news cycle is getting you down, get a load of this video of dogs. Jumping. As high as they can. Related: Cuteness Overload: 361 Golden Retriever Dogs Came from All Over the World to Celebrate the Breed’s 150th Birthday Can your dog jump as high as these? SnowBrains | March 30, 2020 0 Comments
All of Colorado’s 14ers Climbed by Siberian Husky: Third Dog Ever To Do So Climbing Colorado’s 14ers has become a quite popular summer activity over the last 10 or so years, but how about bringing your dog to the summit of all 58 of them! Along the trail, you will see a good number of dogs and many of them will make it to the summit. To climb all 58 though is an accomplishment […] Climbing Ryan Nadiak | January 29, 2020 1 Comment
Avalanche Dogs from Around the Country Come to Summit County, CO for Pre-Season Warmup Training More than 30 avalanche dogs and their handlers from ski areas across the west congregated in Summit County, CO this week to train as part of the Colorado Rapid Avalanche Deployment program, known as C-RAD. Related: The Evolution of Ski Patrol: Dogs, Tech, and Love for the Mountains The teams will spend four days learning how to warm up before […] Avalanche AvyBrains | October 9, 2019 0 Comments
Dogs Are Getting High by Eating Marijuana Laced Human Feces Vets are seeing up to 10 dogs a week with symptoms of cannabis toxicity, even if their owners don’t keep weed in the house. How are they getting high, you ask? They are eating human feces tainted with marijuana. Related: The Evolution of Ski Patrol: Dogs, Tech, and Love for the Mountains Dr. Scott Dolginow, who owns Valley Emergency Pet […] SnowBrains | July 8, 2019 1 Comment
Family’s Dogs Survive THREE Weeks Lost in The French Alps Family dogs Mungo and Mika survived for THREE weeks in the French Alps alone while their owner Abigail Beaumont searched desperately for them. Abigail was walking the rescue dogs next to a canal in Morzine, France in March when they took off in search of adventure and disappeared. Although Mika, six, and Mungo, three, knew their way home, when they didn’t […] SnowBrains | April 23, 2019 0 Comments
How To Start Your Day Right: Morning Routines From Two of Today’s Top Pros In my pursuit of becoming a better, stronger and more focused skier I’ve found myself taking advantage of every opportunity I have to do so. In particular, the time I spend between getting out of bed and hitting the hill, my morning routine, has developed itself into what I’d almost call a ritual. A daily sequence that in the end […] Brains Alex K | January 7, 2019 0 Comments
Revised Dog Policy for Uphill Skiers at Aspen Ski Resorts Aspen Skiing Co. officials have been reviewing their uphill skiing policies recently. Uphill skiers, or uphillers, are skiers that use touring equipment to access ski resort terrain without using chairlifts. While uphilling provides people with a unique experience, the added skier traffic can conflict with ski resort operations. Aspen Skico recently told public that they will continue to allow uphilling […] Industry News Tanner Blake | November 23, 2018 0 Comments
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