Trip Report: 12,048′ Tuck No – La Sal Mountains, UT Report from Tuesday, May 16, 2023 12,400′ Mount Tukuhnikivatz, A Fifty Classic Ski Descent, has a little sister right next door that ain’t so little. Her name is Tuck No and she’s arguably just as good—if not better—than the classic around the corner. Steep, jagged, and avalanche-prone, she’s not a mountain to be messed with at any time of […] Trip Report Martin Kuprianowicz | May 17, 2023 0 Comments
The Best Ski Bum Job: Adaptive Raft Guide for the National Ability Center in Moab, Utah Brought to you by the National Ability Center What is the best ski bum summer job? Raft guiding. Raft guiding is one of the most rewarding jobs you can work during the summer season, especially for Utah’s National Ability Center (NAC). At NAC, you work with a variety of clients with varying disabilities. You get to help your clients say “I […] Featured Article Dominic Gawel | February 14, 2022 0 Comments
Moab, UT Report: Post-Ski Trip Desert Climbing Brought to you by 10 Barrel Brewing Report from Tuesday, May 4-Wednesday, May 5, 2021 We skied. We climbed. We conquered. But really we just hung out and had a good time in the desert. After an intense ski down one of North America’s 50 classic ski descents in the La Sal Mountains near Moab, Utah on Monday, it was time […] Climbing Martin Kuprianowicz | May 7, 2021 0 Comments
Trip Report: 12,482′ Mount Tukuhnikivatz, UT | The Savage ‘North Face’ Brought to you by 10 Barrel Brewing Report from Monday, May 3, 2021 We were frozen—petrified with fear. Near the end of the bootpack up to the ridge, it suddenly got extremely steep and icy. It was only 20 feet to the ridge. But 20 feet feels a hell of a lot further on a 60-degree top section of a slope. […] Trip Report Martin Kuprianowicz | May 7, 2021 1 Comment
Racist Graffiti Scrawled Across 2,000-Year-Old Petroglyphs in Moab, UT A Moab tour guide was shocked to see racist graffiti scrawled across ancient Native American petroglyphs in Utah on one of the most popular rock art panels in the area. The words “white power” and graphic images were discovered Monday on “The Birthing Scene,” a panel on a slab covered on four sides with Native American art from the Anasazi period […] SnowBrains | April 28, 2021 4 Comments
Hiker Lost his Footing and Fell 200-Feet to His Death at Dead Horse Point State Park Near Moab, UT A Texas man has died following an incident at Dead Horse Point State Park, Utah Sunday. The man, 54-year-old Charles Campassi from Houston, Texas, was visiting the park with family. Around noon, the group was hiking the area near the West Rim Trail when Campassi lost his footing and fell off of the cliff. The group is believed to have […] SnowBrains | July 28, 2020 0 Comments
Utah’s Navajo Land Has a Higher Rate of COVID-19 Infection Than New York City The curve of Utah’s overall coronavirus cases appears to be flattening, but don’t let that fool you — there’s a crisis in the south of the state. Because it’s officially on sovereign territory of the Navajo Nation on the southern border of San Juan County in Utah, cases on Native American reservations often don’t get included in the State Health […] SnowBrains | May 22, 2020 0 Comments
Mono County, CA: Short-Term Rentals Restricted Under ‘Stay-At-Home-Order,’ More Places Following Suit The governor of California recently put the state on lockdown, issuing a ‘stay-at-home-order,’ in an attempt to prevent the spread of COVID-19. As a result, the Mono County Public Health Officer has issued an order limiting the use of all short-term rentals to specific purposes consistent with the governor’s order. RELATED: California Governor Orders State’s 40-Million Residents to ‘Stay at […] SnowBrains | March 26, 2020 0 Comments
Miles of Utah Mountain Biking Trails Saved from Oil and Gas Companies The sale of several parcels of land near Moab, UT that included up to two-thirds of the popular Slickrock mountain biking trail has been reversed by the BLM, sparing the pristine area from oil and gas companies who were looking to drill there. The Salt Lake Tribune reports that the Bureau of Land Management decided against selling the land to oil […] Biking Martin Kuprianowicz | February 24, 2020 0 Comments
Iconic Moab, UT Trails Considered for Oil and Gas Drilling The Slickrock Trail is one of mountain biking’s most iconic rides and a Moab, Utah classic — but it might not be for long. Under a recent Bureau of Land Management proposal, the area could open to oil and gas drilling. The trail sits within one of seven parcels the agency is proposing opening to energy extraction, two of which […] SnowBrains | January 30, 2020 11 Comments
VIDEO: The FIFTY Ep. 17 – Skiing Mt. Tukuhnikivatz, UT with 2 Native American Skiers [arve url="https://youtu.be/ZBokg-bzY_s"] SnowBrains | October 31, 2019 Likes Tweets 0 Comments
Trip Report: Climbing in Indian Creek, UT Adventure Summary: crack climbing, desert camping, citations, scuba diving, and canned tamales. The two best state highways in Utah are highways 210 and 211. They are coincidentally numbered one right after the other even though they are located on two different sides of the state. Highway 210 is the road that runs through Little Cottonwood Canyon, home to righteous ski […] Trip Report Martin Kuprianowicz | October 16, 2019 0 Comments
Bear Bites 13-Year-Old Boy On Face While Sleeping at Campground in Utah Utah wildlife officials are reporting that a bear bit a 13-year-old boy on the face while he was sleeping at a campground near Moab, Utah on Friday night. The boy was injured on his left cheek and left ear and was taken to the hospital. “Early this morning, a bear entered a Moab-area campground — the Dewey Bridge Campground — […] Industry News SnowBrains | August 12, 2019 2 Comments
Can’t Decide Whether to Mountain Bike or Ski on Your Next Trip? Do Both! The evo Collective sent pro snowboarder Josh Dirksen and pro mountain biker Adam Craig down to Moab to prove that you don’t have to choose. The Utah spring had plenty of snow up top and tacky trails beckoning below, so why not bike and board in the same day? Josh and Adam couldn’t argue with that, and bit into “A […] Biking Spencer Miller | June 20, 2017 0 Comments
High Desert During No-Snow November Is the lack of snow really getting you down? OK, we’ll just pretend it’s the lack of snow. And the unseasonably warm temperatures. There’s only one cure for that in November, a generally bleh month in North America: Moab and the surrounding area. Moab is great, but it’s usually really crowded – like, Beijing crowded. They can expect 100,000 people on a big […] Climbing Sergei Poljak | November 15, 2016 0 Comments
VIDEO: RedBull Chain Reaction | Moab, UT Need your daily dose of awesome? Check out this flick produced by RedBull that displays 8 different disciplines of flight in one relatively uncut clip around the Moab area. This pretty much seems to be the pinnacle of the “amount of fun you could have in one afternoon with some buddies”. Imagine calling a few of your friends […] Keenan Grady | May 17, 2016 0 Comments
VIDEO: 1,640-Foot, World Record Slackline – “Across The Sky” Wow. Just wow. This just doesn’t look real and it just happened 3 days ago… “On November 15, 2015 Théo Sanson walked nearly 500 meters on a slackline rigged from The Rectory to Castleton Tower in Castle Valley, Utah – likely a new world record. Rigging the line is perhaps as significant a feat as walking it.” – Camp 4 […] SnowBrains | November 19, 2015 0 Comments
BASE Jump Cliff Strike | **Warning Graphic Video** On November 24th, 2013 this BASE jumper Thayer Healy threw himself from a cliff at Potash Road near Moab, Utah and his parachute opened 180 degrees the wrong direction sending him straight into a cliff. In slow motion, you can see that Thayer grabbed at his steering lines right away and initially missed. By the time he got a hold of the steering lines, it was too late. Of course, his trajectory sent him […] SnowBrains | December 4, 2013 6 Comments
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