Mt. Bachelor, OR = 15″ Overnight + 4-Foot Base + 4 Lift Opens + 78″ This Season… Mt. Bachelor, OR has had nothing but snow in their forecast the past 10 days. The next 7 days are forecast to be nothing but snow as well. They got 15″ of snow overnight last night, they’ve had 26″ of snow in the past 7 days, they have a 4-foot base, they’ve gotten 78″ of snow already this season, and they have 4 lifts open today. Not bad. Bachelor has gotten so much early snow that they were able to open 3 days earlier than scheduled this season on November 23rd, 2014 with one chairlift open. Today, they will be opening 4 chairlifts […] SnowBrains | November 29, 2014 1 Comment
Nothing But Snow in the Forecast for Mt. Bachelor, OR | Opening 3 Days Early on Monday Mt. Bachelor ski resort in Oregon has nothing but snow in its forecast for the next 7 days going right through its opening day on Monday, November 24th, 2014. There’s sure to be some solid skiing and riding at Bachelor during their opening week. Bachelor has gotten 21″ of snow in the past 7 days and 40″ of snow this season so far. They have […] Weather SnowBrains | November 21, 2014 1 Comment
2014/15 Oregon Ski Resort Opening Dates: Oregon is the land of copious snowfalls, seemingly endless ski seasons, and amazing tree skiing. It’s a volcano-land whose peaks inspire as the scrape the sky. Mt. Bachelor is a freeride paradise, Mt. Hood is open 10 months a year, and Mt. Ashland is the steepest ski resort per acerage in the USA. It doesn’t hurt that Bend, Oregon (Mt. Bachelor’s town) has the highest brewery per capita in the USA as well. Beer is good. Locally brewed beer is even better. […] Industry News SnowBrains | November 3, 2014 0 Comments
Gerry Lopez Big Wave Challenge @ Mt. Bachelor, OR This Saturday: Mt. Bachelor ski resort in Bend, OR is hosting their 4th annual Gerry Lopez Big Wave Challenge. Just in case you didn’t know, Gerry Lopez is also known as Mr. Pipeline. Yeah, he’s the guy that first mastered the nastiest, most gorgeous barrel wave in the world. He’s also been a potent innovator in the surf industry as far as surfboard design, style, and attitude is concerned. You can think of him as […] SnowBrains | April 24, 2014 1 Comment
21″ of Snow Forecasted for Mt. Bachelor, OR Mt. Bachelor ski resort is forecasted to receive 21″ of snow between now and Wednesday. Bachelor has had a heckuva year this year. Bachelor is one of the spring skiing capitals of North America and one of the reasons they are is because of their late season dumps. Bachelor has gotten 363″ of snow this year. They have a 145″ base at mid mountain and a 100″ base at the base of the mountain. Put 21″ of fresh snow on top of that and you’re gonna have a good time. Bachelor also has one of the top 5 chairlifts in the Pacific Northwest, […] Weather SnowBrains | April 21, 2014 0 Comments
Top 10 North American Snow Totals This Past Week: There were some ridiculous snow totals in North America last week. We feel that it’s very necessary to report and celebrate these silly snow totals. It’s been a rough year for so many locales and now it’s time to party. Mt. Bachelor got nuked on. Tahoe went from zero to hero. Colorado went off. Washington is getting into it now. We know we likely missed someone in here (wolf creeks’ website has been down). Let us know who we missed […] Weather SnowBrains | February 12, 2014 6 Comments
Mt. Bachelor, OR Gets 44″ of New Snow From Latest Storm Mt. Bachelor ski resort in Oregon just got hammered by a major winter storm. The storm came in last Wednesday and left 44″ of new snow before it left last night. The weather was intense at Bachelor resulting in snapped trees, closed roads, high winds, and some unreal skiing and riding. […] Weather SnowBrains | January 13, 2014 0 Comments
Mt. Bachelor Conditions Report 12/19/13 Photo & Video Upon arriving to Mt. Bachelor at 9:30am, it seemed like the day would be a partly cloudy and beautiful day with glimpses of Broken Top and the Three Sisters through the wispy clouds. An hour into skiing, however, the weather turned for the worse socking the mountain into a blistery white out. The white out was only affecting the skiing […] Conditions Report Bevan Waite | December 22, 2013 1 Comment
7th Annual Dirksen Derby @ Mt. Bachelor, OR It’s only mid December and one of the best snowboarding events of the season has come and gone, the Dirksen Derby. Hosted by Mt Bachelor in Bend Oregon, the Dirksen Derby was created by snowboarding pro Josh Dirksen to help raise money for Tyler Eklund. Tyler became paralyzed in a snowboarding accident in 2007 while practicing for a competition. The Derby raises thousands of dollars and has become a rally call to get Tyler back on the mountain with a little helps from some friends. Now in its 7th season the Derby has grown to be the biggest yet and needed to cap registration at 500 riders. […] SnowBrains | December 17, 2013 0 Comments
Mt. Bachelor OPENS Tomorrow Mt. Bachelor ski resort in Central Oregon will be opening for the 2013/14 winter season tomorrow, November 29th, 2013. They had a limited opening this week with one terrain park open but tomorrow they’ll bust out the big guns. Ski lifts Pine Marten, Skyliner, Sunrise, & Sunrise Accelerator will be open starting tomorrow. We’ve spent the last couple weeks moving snow from the parking lots and placing it in stategic areas around the mountain. Thanks to the hard-work of our Mountain Operations department, we are pleased to announced that the Pine Marten, Skyliner, Sunrise and Sunshine Accelerator lifts will open […] SnowBrains | November 28, 2013 0 Comments
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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