[PHOTOS] Bogus Basin, ID, On Film After a long, smoky summer, Idaho has finally received a break in the temperatures and air quality. While people in other parts of the country may already be thinking about snow and some mountaintops have already received some snow, many mountain bikers in Idaho are getting ready for some much-anticipated fall riding. Here are a few silver halide emulsions from […] Biking Zach Armstrong | October 21, 2024 0 Comments
Reminiscing on Better Winters and Great Turns We’ve heard it a thousand times, and are reminded of it every day, but right now, times are extremely tough. Covid-19 has brought its struggles for everyone and every community worldwide. For the snow community, our resort season was cut unusually short. Spring skiing/boarding is a time of the season that all SnowBrainers look forward to. March and April offer […] Lani Tice | May 17, 2020 1 Comment
NASA Captures Breathtaking New Images of Saturn What. A. Photo. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration recently captured this photo of Saturn showing these mysterious yet captivating fluorescent colors that are a result of auroras at the planet’s north and south poles. NASA said in an Instagram post: “This false-color composite image, constructed from data obtained by our Cassini spacecraft, shows the glow of auroras streaking out […] Brains SnowBrains | April 18, 2020 0 Comments
Large Avalanche Caught On Camera By NASA Satellite Over 20 Years Ago Large powder avalanches can quickly and easily reach speeds of 80mph, and don’t last for very long, so the fact that a NASA satellite managed to capture an image of one in action has been described as ‘a stroke of luck’. On April 17, 1996, satellite Landsat-5 was passing over the Karakoram Mountains, Pakistan, at the exact moment an avalanche […] Avalanche Steven Agar | July 19, 2017 0 Comments
Huldra Fruit | Taming the Tempests in the Lyngen Alps After a rainy start to spring touring in Norway, weather windows were not something to be wasted. Huldra in Norwegian is a seductive forest spirit, who can be both kind and malevolent towards humans. This first update from Norway was a testament to her cruelty, which has turned into gratitude for brief weather windows. Words and Photos […] SnowBrains | April 3, 2014 0 Comments
Crystal Mountain Avalanche Videos | Heli Footage of Debris and Patroller Video During Control Work Following the news that a chairlift had been destroyed by an avalanche in Washington state more pictures and footage have begun to emerge. The clear weather in the days following the avalanche has helped showcase the destructive power of this slide. The chair was a Washington favorite and Crystal Mountain has been flooded with questions about buying a chair from the downed chairlift. Crystal has received so many requests that they have issued a special statement regarding the chairs […] Avalanche SnowBrains | March 12, 2014 4 Comments
NASA: Sierra Nevada Snow Coverage Jan. 2013 VS. Jan. 2014 Even NASA isn’t stoked on California’s snow coverage right now. They just took a photo of the Sierra Nevada mountain range this January versus last January. The difference is shocking… We are having one helluva dry year this year. […] Weather SnowBrains | January 16, 2014 2 Comments
Powder Magazine Video = “Behind the Cover: October 2013” Powder Magazine’s October 2013 issue comes out today. Sean Cochrane is on the cover ripping pow on a snow shed in B.C. To explain how they got the shot on the cover, Powder made this video. Powder is getting very very digital this year and we are diggin’ it. They have a lot to offer and now they are making videos in addition to their photos and words. On the cover of POWDER’s October edition (Volume 42, issue 2), Sean Cochrane scores pow on a snow shed protecting motorists on Rogers Pass, British Columbia. “We were driving to go ski atop the pass, and decided to stop and get this […] SnowBrains | September 17, 2013 3 Comments
Swell Saturdays: 2013 Billabong Pro Tahiti Day 1 & 2 Highlight Videos & Photos The Billabong Pro Tahiti at Teahupo’o is happening right now.  Well, today is actually a down day with waves at only 2-4 foot.  But yesterday conditions were perfect for day 2 of the comp.  The sea was a sheet of glass, there was no wind and the tubes were perfect and overhead. We definitely stayed up way too late watching […] Surf SwellBrains | August 17, 2013 1 Comment
Broken Arrow Powder | Squaw Valley USA The ‘secrets’ of Broken Arrow at Squaw never stop giving.  Are there really any secrets left at Squaw?  Yes.  Yes there are. SnowBrains | May 23, 2013 0 Comments
DANGER Unavoided | Cerro MartÃn, Las Leñas, Argentina Eric Bryant un-avoiding danger on the way to ski Cerro MartÃn in the Las Leñas backcountry in Argentina.  Did you know that Argentina means:  ‘Land of Silver?” SnowBrains | April 19, 2013 0 Comments
Squaw’s World-Famous Cushing Crossing | Re-Cap & Photo Tour words and photos by Ryan Salm Once a season, Squaw Valley’s finest skiers & riders show off their skills by attempting to skim across Lake Cushing. Costumes are worn and onlookers (including me) get soaked. Some cruise with ease, some wipe-out hard and get destroyed and some get about halfway and sink into the chilly waters. It was a […] SnowBrains | April 16, 2013 4 Comments
Mt. Meili, Tibet | Sacred & Unclimbed | 22,113 Feet Tall A Sino-Japanese team once attempted to climb this sacred mountain.  They were never heard from again. This mountain is sacred.  It is said in Tibet, that if it were to be climbed, the gods would anger and destroy the local villages including Yubeng.  Not knowing this, I told a local that I’d like to climb that peak someday. “If you […] SnowBrains | April 11, 2013 0 Comments
Turnagain Arm, Alaska Sunset A fantastic sunset on Turnagain Arm on the way to Girdwood, Alaska in the unreal Alaska spring of 2012. Â People will talk about Spring 2012 as the spring with no clouds in Alaska, which never happens. Â It was clear most everyday for all March and April, making for enormous amounts of days on snow. SnowBrains | April 4, 2013 0 Comments
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