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Loveland Ski Area, CO, Report: Best Day of the Season After a 50″ Week-Long Storm

Deep and empty slopes off Lift 8. Photo Credit: SnowBrains

Report from Friday, February 21, 2025 Loveland Ski Area sits atop the Continental Divide in the heart of Colorado’s Rocky Mountains. It also happens to be located in the heart of a week-long storm that has dropped 50″ of snow since last Saturday. The recent snowfall has absolutely boosted the ski area’s base, and I was lucky to get a […]

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Luke Guilford | February 23, 2025
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Where Will it Be Deep This Week? These are North America’s Top 5 Forecasted Resorts for the 10 Days of December 22 – 31, 2024

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It’s always snowing somewhere, and fresh snow is the essence of skiing and snowboarding. Whether you are chasing the deepest conditions or love seeing where the snow is piling up so you can live vicariously through others, this list of resorts will be the deepest over the next week and beyond.  Related: SnowBrains PNW Forecast: Massive Christmas Storm Cycle Will […]

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Avatar photo Brent Thomas | December 21, 2024
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Too Much Snow Delays Opening of Ski Portillo, Chile

The storms are adding up at Ski Portillo. Photo Credit: Outside+

Winter is charging full speed ahead in Chile. Ski Portillo has received over 224 inches of snowfall this season, smashing its 200-inch average seasonal snowfall. Originally set to open June 20, the ski area has since moved the opening day to June 29 as a winter storm moved in on the Andes this week. Related:Ski Season is Just Around the […]

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Luke Guilford | June 27, 2024
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The Legend of ‘The Powder Buoy’: Can it Really Predict Big Winter Storms?

NOAA Buoy Station 51101 AKA Powder Buoy. Photo Credit: NOAA

The Powder Buoy is a story of how a financial planner created a cult following over a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) weather buoy floating in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. The story begins in 2004 when Michael Ruzek, a skier and financial planner living in Park City, Utah, was chatting with one of his clients, Hank Manninen. […]

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Luke Guilford | March 18, 2024
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Winter Park, CO, Report: An Order of Pow and Slush

Eyeing out a line in the Eagle Wind terrain. Photo Credit: SnowBrains

Report from April 15-16th, 2023 This past weekend, I got some spring riding in and saw almost everything April can deliver. Conditions included a variety of dust on crust, fluffy pow, and spring slush. Related: Winter Park Resort, CO, to Keep Mary Jane Open for as Long as Possible – SnowBrains Saturday, April 15th, Winter Park received around 6″ of […]

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Luke Guilford | April 18, 2023
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Seven Springs Resort, PA Report: This Past Weekend Will be a Tough Act to Follow!

Report from Friday, February 7 SnowBrains and friends started trickling into Seven Springs Mountain Resort early in the day Friday, February 7, 2020, where we soon learned that ULLR was delivering a nice little weekend package of what ended up being 8-10 inches of the buttery white stuff!  Falling victim to the dreaded office job, I realized I was running […]

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Chad Walker | February 11, 2020
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Conditions Report: Rope Drops and Heavy Snow All-Day Long at Arapahoe Basin, CO

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With well-above average snowfall for most of the state, the 2018/2019 ski season in Colorado has gone off with a bang! The snowpacks in several regions have exceeded what most are familiar with considering it’s not even December. Word got out that a one-two combo of storms would descend on the state over the holiday weekend, with targets on the […]

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Jon Roubik | November 24, 2018
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Alyeska, AK Conditions Report: Pow to the People!

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Christmas came early for Alyeska faithful. Improving viz and continuously falling snows put the capital ‘G’ in Great Land skiing. From sun-up to sun-down, light, consistent accumulation blanketed Mount Alyeska from top to bottom. Everthing is skiing clean, super fun, and way deeper than currently posted snow totals! Thanks to an incoming precip. forecast, and tireless snowmaking, Alyeska Resort looks […]

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Paulie | December 19, 2017
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