Win An All-Expense-Paid Trip to La Grave, France via Freeskier Magazine Wanna go on an all expenses paid trip to the extreme skiing capital La Grave, France? Of course you do. Wanna ski with world class ski mountaineers who will show you around and teach you their tricks? Um, yeah. Then you need to enter to win Freeskier Magazine’s contest to win a trip to La Grave, France to ski with professional athletes: Seb Michaud, Bruno Compagnet, & Christophe Dumarest. Enter to win here: Freeskier Magazine’s La Grave Contest La Grave, France has two lift, a pulse gondola, and a short rope tow. You get […] SnowBrains | January 9, 2014 0 Comments
Top 5 Ski Resorts on a Pow Day in North America Freeskier magazine just ranked the top 5 ski resorts on a powder day. We must say that we mostly agree with this list. For us, the top 5 zones for freeskiing in North America are Tahoe, Utah, Jackson, & Whistler. Interior B.C. should get a mention here, though. We would replace Heavenly with Revelstoke… […] SnowBrains | December 26, 2013 4 Comments
Top 10 Terrain Parks in North America: Freeskier Magazine has ranked the top 10 terrain parks in North America. If you’re into park, you need to know where these places are and why they are on this list. At ski resorts everywhere, terrain parks are getting better every year, and thanks to that, so too are the skiers that frequent them. With improvements in technology and technique—plus an ever-growing interest in building unique, creative park features—park crews are constructing […] SnowBrains | December 10, 2013 2 Comments
An Open Letter in Response to Freeskier Magazine’s “10 Hottest women in Freeskiing” | by Lynsey Dyer Last week, Freeskier Magazine wrote an article titled “10 Hottest Women in Freeskiing.” Lynsey Dyer is one of the girls in Freeskier’s article. They used a photo of Lynsey Dyer in a bikini (that they’ve since taken down). Lynsey has responded to Freeskier’s article with an open letter on her facebook page: […] SnowBrains | December 4, 2013 2 Comments
Top 10 Ski Resorts in North America by Freeskier Magazine Freeskier Magazine has ranked North America’s top 10 ski resorts. Here’s the criteria they’ve used to justify their rankings: “Based on what we’ve seen and what we love about these ski resorts, we’ve ranked the top 10 ski destinations; this information is originally presented in our 2014 Resort Guide. We made this list by trying to answer the questions our friends ask us: I have a week of vacation, where should I go? I want to ski a badass park, where should I go? I want to stop at the end of an epic t-to-b run and have a delicious drink, where should I go? I just got fired from my job and I want to move to a ski town for a year (and […] Featured Article SnowBrains | November 26, 2013 0 Comments
“Will Legalized Marijuana Bolster Ski Tourism in CO and WA?” | by Freeskier Magazine “I smoked a joint before just about every competition I did.” – Tanner Hall Tess Weaver of Freeskier Magazine just wrote up a great piece about legal marijuana in Washington and Colorado and how it will be a boost to those state’s ski tourism economies. There’s no denying it that it will be a economic advantage. Amsterdam […] Featured Article SnowBrains | November 19, 2013 5 Comments
Top 10 Park Skis of 2014 Park skis are an big piece of any park oriented human’s quiver. If you love park, you’ve gotta have a park ski and an all mountain ski. What’s great is that there is a blurring of this line. One of our guys here at SnowBrains uses his all mountain ski in the park as well. One less ski to carry around with ya. What do you think about this list? Any skis missing from here that you trust in the park? To read the full reviews of the ski below, just hit the links: […] SnowBrains | October 18, 2013 1 Comment
Top 10 All Mountain Skis of 2014 Freeskier Magazine has ranked the top 10 All Mountain Skis for 2014. They go through an extensive testing process with many skiers testing to come up with these rankings. To learn more about their testing proceedure, please visit: Freeskier Ski Testing Procedure An All Mountain ski is a key piece of gear. You’ve got to have an All Mountain ski. Here at SnowBrains, we believe that you can get almost everything done with […] SnowBrains | October 10, 2013 3 Comments
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