Lake Louise Avalanche Takes The Lives of 2 Boston Snowshoers At around 10:30am on Friday, March 17th, 2017, the bodies of two Boston snowshoers were recovered after being buried by an avalanche 20 minutes north of Lake Louise. The victims were a 32-year-old male and female from Boston, MA. It is believed that the two individuals were caught in an avalanche on Sunday, March 12th, 2017 as they were last […] Avalanche Chris Wallner | March 21, 2017 0 Comments
Large Skier Triggered Avalanche Caught on Tape in Banff [iframe id=”https://www.facebook.com/plugins/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FMr.skigon%2Fvideos%2F10153964056462466%2F&show_text=0&width=560″] Winter is very much in full effect as we stroll into December and with winter comes avalanches. This skier triggered avalanche occurred on Mt. Lipallian in the backcountry just outside the resort of Lake Louise in Banff, Alberta in December 2016. Having picked up 38 centimeters of snow in the last week, avalanche danger has increased substantially throughout […] Avalanche Dylan Cautela | December 8, 2016 9 Comments
World Cup Report: First Time in 29 Years Lake Louise Men’s World Cup Cancelled Due to Lack of Snow For the first time in 29 years the FIS has cancelled the men’s Lake Louise World Cup. Weather conditions prohibited the preparation of the race track to meet World Cup requirements. Scheduled for November 26-27, FIS Race Director Hannes Trinkl and Lake Louise Chief of Race Darrell MacLachlan had no other option than to cancel the World Cup Super-G and Downhill […] Robin Azer | November 16, 2016 0 Comments
Squaw Valley’s Travis Ganong Takes Fourth in Lake Louise Super-G Travis Ganong (Squaw Valley, CA) barely missed another podium in Lake Louise on Sunday, but he took a personal-best fourth place in the Super-G race. Travis was barely nudged off the podium by the king of Lake Louise, Aksel Lund Svindal of Norway, Matthias Mayer of Austria, and Peter Fill of Italy. Â The race was very tight, Ganong was only […] Industry News Chris Wallner | November 29, 2015 1 Comment
VIDEO: Full-On Big Mountain Powder Skiing This Week in Canada! Trevor Sexsmith of PerpetualSki.com just sent us this video last night and we’ll have to say that we’re impressed. This is the second big line this guy has skied this summer in powder snow. The previous line was in Banff and was a biggie. He thinks that this one was even bigger. The line is this video is called 3/4*. *”It is more accurately known as the 3/3.5 couloir, as it is between peak 3 (Bowlen, 10,078′) and peak 4 (Tonsa, 10,016) of the over 10,000 foot peaks encircling Moraine Lake. However, there is another couloir, but on a west aspect SnowBrains | September 9, 2015 1 Comment
Terrible Weekend for Avalanche Deaths and Injuries Aaron Karitis, of Bend, Oregon, was seriously injured in an avalanche on Saturday. Karitis, a guide for SouthEast Alaska Backcountry Adventures, was leading clients when the incident occurred. After expressing stability concern in the drop zone the group moved further along a ridge line. Karitis, the only one caught in the slide, was carried over […] Avalanche SnowBrains | March 16, 2014 3 Comments
Lindsey Vonn Returned to Racing TODAY for 1st Time in 10 Months Lindsey Vonn was back on the race course today after severely injuring her knee in Austria last February. Lindsey finished today’s Downhill in Lake Louise, Canada with a time of 1:59.22. That time was good enough to get Lindsy 41st place at the World Cup event. This isn’t the placement Lindsey is used to. She’s used to simply dominating. This was her first race back, she was taking it easy […] SnowBrains | December 6, 2013 0 Comments
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