British Columbia Backcountry Report: 3,600-Vertical-Foot Powder Run = Our Longest Run of the Year Report From January 19, 2025 We talked Axel, the hut keeper from our BC hut trip in early January, into showing us around the BC backcountry on Sunday. We chose an obscure zone that doesn’t see many tracks. We jogged along in the sun and couldn’t resist doing a mini-lap on the spiney-thinger zone on the way up. The snow […] Conditions Report Miles Clark | January 21, 2025 0 Comments
British Columbia Backcountry Report: Skiing A Classic Zone In Powder & Filtered Sunshine Report from January 18, 2025 On Saturday we decided we needed to ski in the sun. 7ยบF at the car. To be clear, it’s kinda once in a lifetime here right now with clear skis and low avalanche danger in January. This is a rare combination here. We ran into an old friend in the parking lot and changed our […] Conditions Report Miles Clark | January 21, 2025 0 Comments
Loveland Ski Area, CO, Report: Fresh Tracks All Day Report from Saturday, January 18 Loveland Ski Area is one of Colorado’s historic ski areas. It all started in 1936 when a portable rope tow was installed. The following season, in 1937, operations at the ski area began under the name Loveland Ski Tow Company. The ski area consisted of four rope tows until the 1956-57 season when the first […] Conditions Report Luke Guilford | January 20, 2025 0 Comments
Where Will it Be Deep This Week? These are North Americaโs Top 5 Forecasted Resorts for the 10 Days of January 19-28, 2025 Itโs always snowing somewhere, and fresh snow is the essence of skiing and snowboarding. Whether you are chasing the deepest conditions or love seeingย where the snow is piling upย so you can live vicariously through others, this list of resorts will be the deepest over the next week and beyond.ย Arctic air is expected to drop over much of the CONUS, […] Weather Brent Thomas | January 18, 2025 0 Comments
BC Backcountry Hut Trip Report Day #3: “The Bubbles” & “The Dark Side” Report from January 5, 2025 On day #3 of our BC hut trip we had a plan. Ski “The Bubbles” in the sunshine, then drop into “The Dark Side.” “The Bubbles” are fun pillows we can see from the hut that receive photons directly from our closest star. “The Dark Side” is a long, steep, scary, hard-to-find chute feels big […] Conditions Report Miles Clark | January 17, 2025 0 Comments
British Columbia Backcountry Report: 1,000-Vertical-Feet of Pillows, Fear, & Joy Report from January 13, 2025 On Monday Dwanis and I battled out into the British Columbia backcountry. Things started flat and mellow, then quickly escalated into a full-blow BC bushwhack switchback into the steeps… Pillows and steeps. Pillows and steeps and logs. Pillows and steeps and logs and trees. It was rough going. 4 hours later, we poked out into […] Conditions Report Miles Clark | January 16, 2025 1 Comment
Revelstoke, BC, Report: Tree-Bomb Sidecountry Powder With Local Legend JJ Vinet Report from January 16, 2025 Today I bumbled out into the Revelstoke, BC, sidecountry in a snow squall with local legend JJ Vinet. At times it was snowing and blowing hard but it didn’t last. We scooted out to the selected zone and things looked fun. JJ guided me around showed me the goods. Tree-bombs had littered the landscape making […] Conditions Report Miles Clark | January 16, 2025 0 Comments
Revelstoke, BC, Report: Long Groomers, Stellar Sidecountry, and “C’est Magnifique” Burgers Report from January 14, 2025 Yesterday we rolled out to Revelstoke at about 9 am. The Selkirk Sea (low river valley clouds) was kickin’ down low and thin clouds were driftin’ up high creating a classic BC cloud sandwich. We were skiing some glorious groomers inbounds when we saw a big hole developing in the upper cloud layer to the […] Conditions Report Miles Clark | January 15, 2025 0 Comments