VIDEO: 600-Inches of Snow in 10 Weeks in Japan Last winter, I was lucky enough to escape the historic California drought and spend 10 weeks in Japan.ย This was my 4th consecutive season in Japan and it was a record winter.ย At times (like the beginning of this video), it was impossibly deep.ย The consistency of the nightly refresh almost became comic. We got over 600-inches of snow in […] Miles Clark | October 13, 2015 1 Comment
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
Top 5 Reasons To Go To Japan This Season: Japan is on everyone’s lips these days. It was once a secret, but a secret it is no more. The consistently deep snows of Japan are well known and sought after world-wide. Storms don’t matter in Japan. A cold wind blows out of Siberia, crosses the Sea of Japan, picks up moisture, and that moisture slams into the mountains of Japan resulting in ceaseless snowfall; especially in January and February. There are places on Honshu Island (Tokyo’s island) that receive 1,200 to 1,500 inches of snow per year. That’s 100 to 125-feet of annual snowfall. Whoa… Hakuba, Japan generally gets about 300 […] SnowBrains | December 16, 2014 0 Comments