SnowBrains Podcast Ep. 81 | Sam Anthamatten – Professional Freeskier, Freeride World Tour Runner-Up, IFMGA Certified Mountain Guide, and World Champion Ice Climber This episode of the SnowBrains podcast is brought to you by Club Med. Sam Anthamatten is a fully certified IFMGA Mountain Guide and one of the very best freeskiers on Earth. Sam competed on the Freeride World Tour, where he finished 2nd overall in his first season. Sam is very adept in big, steep, technical skiing, but he can do it […] Podcasts Podcast | March 12, 2025 0 Comments
Top 9 Ski Resorts in North America as a Professional Freeskier View this post on Instagram A post shared by SnowBrains (@snowbrains) Here are my top nine personal favorite ski resorts as a professional freeskier: Related: The Top 10 Male Freeskiers of All-Time: 9. Mount Bachelor, Oregon This is where I learned to ski. It was a very special place in my heart. I did a full ski season […] Featured Video Miles Clark | November 26, 2024 0 Comments
VIDEO: Swedish Freeskier Hucks a 65-Foot Cliff and Absolutely Nails the Landing Don't try this at home kids! @andreeja A post shared by Edvin Olsson (@edvindolsson) on Mar 5, 2018 at 1:00pm PST Watch as Swedish freeskier Edvin Olsson launches off a 65-foot cliff and absolutely stomps the landing. BOOM. Perfect 10! Steven Agar | March 12, 2018 0 Comments
VIDEO: Watch David Wise Complete his Insane Gold Medal Halfpipe Run After crashing his first two runs, David Wise decided there was nothing left to lose when he stood atop a halfpipe that had sent one-third of the 12 skiers limping off with injuries, facing an all-or-nothing run after his ski bindings had failed him in his two previous trips down, reports the ChicagoTribune “We cranked my bindings up as high as they […] Olympics Steven Agar | February 22, 2018 1 Comment
VIDEO: Olympic Freeskier Fabian Bösch just Hanging Out with his Teammate… Swiss freeskier Fabian Bösch took the less traveled route up an escalator in a break from Olympic training. The 2015 slopestyle world champion, Bösch will be looking to impress on the slopes when qualifying gets underway in PyeongChang. I’m pretty sure his team bosses weren’t too happy with this video! Just one slip… Olympics Steven Agar | February 13, 2018 0 Comments
VIDEO: Miles Clark’s 2016/17 Season Edit = 728″ at Squaw Valley, CA + 593″ Jackson Hole, WY All the skiing in this video was done on the 189cm SCOTT Scrapper 115 ski. Last season was epic at Squaw Valley, CA & Jackson Hole, WY. Squaw saw the 2nd most snow they’ve ever recorded (728″). Jackson Hole saw the most snow they’ve ever recorded (593″) as well as the deepest snowpack they’ve ever recorded (158″) I split my […] Featured Video Miles Clark | November 15, 2017 2 Comments
Video: Cody goes wild in Bodie Cody Laplante, Everybody! Cody was born in 2002, in California, and is now based at Squaw. This has always seemed a good choice for a ripping young skier, following in the footsteps of legendary free skiers. At just 15, Cody’s list of achievements reads like a manual for how to progress in the industry. Starting competing at 9 years old, […] Featured Video Ben Davies | October 1, 2017 0 Comments
VIDEO: Big Wave Surfing on Skis As skiers, we’ve probably all thought of it…Places we wish we could ski but due to technology at the time period are unable to. For example, the Valhalla Forest Segment, or even simply wanting to ski a line but your gear isn’t good enough to get you there. Luckily that wasn’t the case for Chuck Patterson. After watching Mike Douglas […] Surf Keenan Grady | May 27, 2016 0 Comments
Gus Kenworthy Becomes First Openly Gay Action Sports Athlete “I guess I should start by saying, ‘I’m gay.’” – Gus Kenworthy told ESPN last month 24-year-old Olympic medalist Gus Kenworthy has announced to the world recently via an ESPN article that he is gay. He reportedly began coming out about two years ago and now he’s ready to tell the world. Gus is one of the very best freeskiers […] Featured Article Miles Clark | October 22, 2015 1 Comment
VIDEO: Freeskier Survives HUGE Avalanche Using Avalanche Airbag Backpack This winter, SnowBrains.com will be bringing you as much information on Avalanches as we possibly can. We want to help educate you, inform you, and give you access to avalanche information. Accidents are on of the best ways to learn about avalanches. In this video we see a freeskier get caught in an avalanche and survives. He used an avalanche […] Avalanche SnowBrains | October 8, 2013 3 Comments
Top 10 Powder Skis of 2014 Freeskier Magazine has ranked the top 10 powder skis of 2014. If you’re a true powder freak, you likely get a new pair of powder skis every year. There are so many different styles of powder skis these days, it’s nice to get a list like this to show us what’s up on the 2014 powder ski scene. What do you think about this list? Anything missing? Atomic Automatic? Praxis? […] Gear SnowBrains | October 7, 2013 8 Comments