Mt. Bachelor, OR Limited OPENING Tomorrow Mt. Bachelor ski resort in OR will be opening their terrain park tomorrow. They don’t quite have enough snow to get the entire mountain open just yet, so they’re going to open their terrain park and let people have at it until the day before Turkey Day. They’ll be closed for Thanksgiving DAY, then reopen the day after Thanksgiving for the season. As excited as we are to get […] SnowBrains | November 22, 2013 0 Comments
How a Snowflake Forms: 2 Simple Steps… How a snowflake forms is a very interesting, intricate process that we all know almost nothing about. This lack of snowflake genesis knowledge is a shame considering how important snow is to all of our lives and our lives as skiers and riders especially. Below, I’ve spelled out the most simple steps in the development of a snowflake in the simplest terms possible. The birth of every snowflake starts with a tiny microscopic […] Brains Bevan Waite | November 19, 2013 2 Comments
Mt. Bachelor Final Weekend Video | Powder, Tricks of Cliffs, Pond Skimming, & The Biggest Wall Ride Around Closing weekend at Mt. Bachelor featured over 20 inches of new snow as well as the Sammy Carlson Invitational. Bachelor had a great year ending up with 363” of snow, 186 days of operation, and 98 days of having the Summit open. Not bad for a year that ended up pretty miserable in most everywhere outside of the PNW. Tanner […] Miles Clark | June 20, 2013 3 Comments
Sammy Carlson Invitational @ Mt. Bachelor | Professional Photo Tour & Wrap-Up The 2nd annual Sammy Carlson invitation at Mt. Bachelor this past Sunday was genius in its simplicity. One jump. One wall ride. No podium. No medals. One huge wall-ride = 25-feet tall, 80-feet wide. “The wall was even sicker than last year, even though I didn’t think [creating a better wallride] was possible. This year, with the new PVC coping up […] Miles Clark | May 30, 2013 3 Comments
Pacific Northwest Powder Report | 18” at Bachelor, 12” at Crystal, 13” at Timberline, 4” at Whistler | 10” Forecasted Next 2 Days The best thing about these snow totals is that all these resorts are still open daily (Crystal open Sat, Sun, Mon). The forecast at Mt. Bachelor is for 10 more inches the next 2 days: 18” of new snow and 27F at Mt. Bachelor, OR on May 22nd and they’re open? It’s hard to believe. Bachelor is open everyday until […] SnowBrains | May 23, 2013 5 Comments
Pacific Northwest Sees Cold & Snow Today | 8” @ Crystal Mountain, 7” @ Timberline | They’re Both Still Open This is a true powder alert. The Pacific Northwest has cold and snow right this second. Crystal Mountain will be open this weekend. Mt. Bachelor and Timberline are open daily. If you’re in the PN-Dub, you should be feelin’ a little bit sick tomorrow. Just sick enough to miss work, but still crush it on the hill Crystal Mountain, WA got […] SnowBrains | May 22, 2013 5 Comments
Mt. Bachelor Conditions Report | Snowy, Sunny, Slushy, & Fun | Video & Photo Tour Oregon never ceases to amaze me. And I’m not talking about the luscious forests and rugged volcanoes, no, it’s the diversity of rotten weather on any given day that really stupefies me. One normally associates spring skiing with cloudless skies and beating sun rays composed of nice, mid 50 degree weather slushing up all that previously slippery ice into a […] Bevan Waite | May 20, 2013 4 Comments
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