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Skis Are Older Than the Wheel | NPR Story

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What came first: the ski or the wheel? According to a recent NPR story, it was the ski. We’ve previously reported on the origins of skiing and how skiing is about 9,000 years old and from Scandinavia. This article proposes that skiing is 10,000 years old and from China. The birthplace of skis is under debate, but the ski is believed to be even older than […]

Avatar photo SnowBrains | September 5, 2020
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Robb Gaffney Responds to Squaw CEO’s Tough Talk on NPR Against Creating Town of Olympic Valley

Andy Wirth has come out strongly against the incorporation of Olympic (Squaw) Valley in an NPR interview saying that: “there are so many mistruths and mischaracterizations being made that we had to step up.” “They are suggesting that they can improve services. They have yet to even prove that they can sustain existing services. In fact, we […]

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WATCH: Plow Vs. TV Reporter (You’ll Be Surprised Who Wins) | NPR Story…

Local TV reporters tend to get themselves into hairy situations when it comes to weather stories. This morning, a reporter for Fox 29 in Philadelphia was covering the snowfall. He was in the middle of a stand-up on a rural road in Woodstown, N.J., when all of a sudden a group of plow trucks came […]

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Friday Fun: “Loser Keeps Bieber” Billboard | USA vs. Canada Olympic Hockey Game

You gotta love that someone made this sign and actually posted it. You gotta love even more that NPR covered this. This sign was put up by a shipping company named Command Transport in Skokie, Illinois. Sure, a chance to play in Sunday’s gold medal game is at stake when the men’s hockey teams from the U.S. and Canada face off […]

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Avatar photo SnowBrains | February 21, 2014
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Avalanche Airbag Backpacks Go Mainstream | NPR Story:

Avalanche airbag backpacks are becoming more and more popular in the USA. So much so, that National Public Radio (NPR) felt the need to cover them this week. Avalanche airbags are becoming more of must in the backcountry. Bruce Tremper, director of the Utah Avalanche Center, has stated: “My best guess is that avalanche airbag packs will probably save a little more than half of those who would have otherwise have died in an avalanche.” – Bruce Tremper, Utah Avalanche Center Airbags probably save half of those who would otherwise have died in an avalanche? That should be […]

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Avatar photo SnowBrains | February 19, 2014
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NASA: Pollution, Not Rising Temperatures, May Have Melted Alpine Glaciers

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory recently finished a study that shows that Europe’s glaciers may have begun their rapid melting in the 1860s due to soot from the industrial revolution.  It’s thought by NASA that this soot absorbed sunlight and greatly accelerated the melting of Europe’s glacier system. “If you look back through the 1600s and 1700s, the glaciers were big […]

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Avatar photo SnowBrains | September 4, 2013
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NPR Story: Are the 2014 Winter Olympics Hurting the Beach Town of Sochi, Russia?

This NPR story sheds light on what exactly is happening to Sochi, Russia as they prepare for the 2014 Winter Olympic Games.  Sochi isn’t what we think.  It’s not a ski resort town.  It’s a beach resort town (luckily they’ve stored 450,000 cubic meters of snow for 2014) on the Black Sea that is getting a winter make over for […]

Avatar photo SnowBrains | June 12, 2013
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