Mt. Bohemia Adds Lake Tahoe’s Diamond Peak to Season Pass Lineup Michigan’s Mt. Bohemia has recently formed a partnership with Diamond Peak Ski Resort in the Lake Tahoe area of Nevada. Bohemia passholders from Minnesota, Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, and Iowa will get one free lift ticket for the upcoming winter. The announcement has generated excitement among extreme skiing enthusiasts, as both Mt. Bohemia and Diamond Peak are known for their […] Industry News Joseph Kaufmann | August 5, 2025 0 Comments
Best Ski Towns in North America to Visit if You’re Not Skiing or Snowboarding Ski towns across North America offer a large variety of activities off the slopes. From fine dining and night life, to spas, festivals and art galleys and everything in between, both the U.S. and Canada’s ski towns offer a little something for everyone. Some towns, however, pull well above their weight in off the slope activities year round. From coast […] Brains Joseph Kaufmann | August 2, 2025 0 Comments
Top 5 Most Extravagant Ski Mansions Sold Over the Past 10 Years in North America A life of alpine luxury is one that many across the world dream of. Waking up to sprinkling snow and the smell of pine before heading for the lifts sounds like a life of bliss. And to make life amongst the slopes even more attractive, some of the most magnificent mansions in the world find themselves tucked near amazing ski […] Brains Quinn Brophy | July 29, 2025 0 Comments
Shredder Ski School Opens First Dallas Location, Bringing Indoor Winter Sports to North Texas Shredder Ski School, a franchise corporation based in Boulder, Colorado, has just opened its first Dallas area location. While Dallas might not be the first place one associates with winter sports, the community boasts a strong affinity for skiing and snowboarding. Robert Lacey, a Vermont native and a ski enthusiast since the age of 6 is the driving force behind […] Industry News Joseph Kaufmann | July 21, 2025 0 Comments
Should Helmets Be Mandatory at Ski Resorts? It wasn’t very long ago that ski helmets were more of an obscurity then the norm like they are today. Though ski helmets were initially invented in the 1950s with the use of technology from World War II, they didn’t really began to see wide spread use until the early to mid 2000’s. A study from ScholarBlogs found that in the […] Industry News Joseph Kaufmann | July 10, 2025 4 Comments
Top 7 Most Unexpected Animals Seen on the Slopes Like any outdoor activity humans participle in, from time to time we tend to come in contact with the original inhabitants of the area we choose to make our playground. Many ski resorts are on national forests, and in those dense, often remote areas one can run into some pretty striking wildlife. In fact, Colorado’s White River National Forest is […] Brains Joseph Kaufmann | July 9, 2025 0 Comments
2 Survivors Wearing Life Jackets Escape Lake Tahoe Boat Tragedy That Killed 6 Six people are confirmed dead, two remain missing, and two others were hospitalized after a boat capsized in rough waters on Lake Tahoe Saturday evening, with authorities confirming the only survivors were wearing life jackets. Emergency crews responded around 5 p.m. on June 21 after the El Dorado County Sheriff’s Office received reports of an overturned boat carrying 10 people […] Martin Kuprianowicz | June 26, 2025 0 Comments
Lake Tahoe Water Clarity Holds Steady, 2024 Report Finds, but Progress Stalls Lake Tahoe’s long-term clarity record is not trending worse, nor is it improving, according to the 2024 annual clarity report from the University of California, Davis’ Tahoe Environmental Research Center (TERC). The report, released this week, documents steep declines in clarity through the 1990s before leveling off in recent years. In 2024, the annual average clarity for Lake Tahoe was […] Press Release | June 20, 2025 0 Comments
Brain Post: 8 Facts About Summer Solstice Today, June 20, is the summer solstice, the longest day of the year, and the official start of summer in the Northern Hemisphere. This means that the beginning of winter is only six months away, on December 21, and daylight today is five hours and 28 minutes longer than it will be then. Ski season is even closer, as it […] Brains SnowBrains | June 20, 2025 2 Comments
The Income Needed to Own a Home in Top U.S. Cities Close to Skiing Skiing and affordable are two words that aren’t generally used in the same sentence. While ski towns across the U.S. are famously expensive, such as Aspen, Colorado, and Park City, Utah, these types of towns generally don’t offer the same career opportunities that larger metro areas do. As a result, many professionals prefer to move to larger cities that offer […] Brains Joseph Kaufmann | June 9, 2025 1 Comment
20th Annual Tahoe Bike Month Kicks Off June 1 Lake Tahoe, Nev./Calif. – Tahoe Bike Month returns this June, marking the region’s 20th year of celebrating bike culture. A collaboration between the Lake Tahoe Bicycle Coalition and the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency (TRPA), this month-long series of events and a friendly ride challenge encourages residents and visitors to embrace biking for both transportation and recreation—while helping protect the Lake […] Press Release | May 28, 2025 0 Comments
Palisades Tahoe, CA, Report: Going for the D-Spin 720º at 47-Years-Old View this post on Instagram A post shared by SnowBrains (@snowbrains) Report from May 25, 2025 I woke up at 1 am last night and everything was so clear. I’d wake up at 5:45 am, drive to Palisades Tahoe, land the D-Spin 720, and roll back down to Mammoth for Tall Carl’s party. Tahoe had been off the table because […] Conditions Report Miles Clark | May 26, 2025 0 Comments
Homewood, CA, New Gondola Update: Resort Expects Completion by 2026-27 Season Homewood Mountain Resort’s highly anticipated gondola project is progressing steadily toward construction, with an official opening targeted for the 2026-27 ski season. According to an update posted on the resort’s official website, the Homewood Gondola has secured key regulatory milestones, including full approvals from the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency (TRPA), the California Tramway Board, and substantial conformance approval from Placer […] Industry News Martin Kuprianowicz | May 13, 2025 0 Comments
The 9 Most Expensive Daily Lift Tickets in the USA Last Season Three-hundred-dollars. 300 big ones. A week’s pay or more for many full-time laborers in America—workers in the very same ski towns that charge these exorbitant prices for a day lift ticket. How do these honest people afford to go skiing? Or do they? Related: Understanding Dynamic Pricing in the Ski Industry It’s happening; daily ski ticket prices are reaching unprecedented […] Industry News Martin Kuprianowicz | May 12, 2025 30 Comments
Palisades Tahoe, CA, Report: Celebrating Day 100 This Season With Sun and Slush at the Spring Skiing Capital Report from May 8, 2025 Every time we load our gear into the car at 4:45 am for a Palisades spring skiing trip—pitch-black and only half-awake—it ends up being a phenomenal, fun-packed 16 hours. And once again, this gorgeous May day proved to be no different. Since Palisades Tahoe is, as always, the last resort open around the basin, it was […] Conditions Report John Cunningham | May 10, 2025 0 Comments
Lake Tahoe, CA, Boating Season Kicks Off with Stronger Protections in Place This Year Lake Tahoe, Nev./Calif. – Lake Tahoe watercraft inspection stations, boat launches, and marinas are opening for the 2025 boating season and aquatic invasive species management agencies are encouraging boaters and paddlers to stay up to date with strengthened procedures to protect the lake from the spread of aquatic invasive species. Changes this year include mandatory decontaminations and additional processing time […] Press Release | May 8, 2025 0 Comments
Palisades Tahoe, CA, Remains the Last Ski Resort Open in Tahoe for Spring Skiing And then there was one. Palisades Tahoe, California, remains the final ski resort open in the Tahoe region, operating daily in spring through May 26. With Alpine now closed for the season, skiers and riders will find most available terrain on the upper mountain, where KT-22 continues to run and is expected to stay open daily through next weekend. Related: […] Industry News SnowBrains | May 5, 2025 0 Comments
The 5 Oldest Ski Areas in the U.S. Skiing has a long history stretching back hundreds of years, but organized resorts in the United States have only been around for about a hundred years. Surprisingly, the oldest resorts in the country are somewhat unknown and unheard of, as many of the resorts are quite small. These five resorts are the oldest public ski resorts still in operation in […] Tyler Hatch | April 13, 2025 4 Comments
Homewood Mountain Resort, CA, Plans to Reopen for 2025-26 Season Without New Gondola Homewood Mountain Resort, the lakeside ski area on Lake Tahoe’s quieter west shore, has confirmed it will reopen for the 2025–26 winter season—just without the gondola that’s been central to its redevelopment plans. The resort, which closed for the entire 2024–25 season amid financial complications and delays with its Master Plan, had hoped to have a new eight-passenger gondola installed […] Industry News Martin Kuprianowicz | April 5, 2025 0 Comments
Lake Tahoe Resorts Announce Closing Dates for 2024–25 Ski Season Another strong snow season is winding down across Lake Tahoe, and resorts are locking in their projected closing dates. While some ski areas will push well into late April—or even Memorial Day—others are wrapping things up early for weather or construction-related reasons. Related: Which Ski Resort in Pennsylvania Will Be the Last One Standing This Season? Regardless of snowfall, Tahoe […] Industry News SnowBrains | March 27, 2025 0 Comments
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