The Winter of All Winters | The ’98-’99 Season at Mt. Baker, WA If you love snow, especially skiing or riding it, and have made looking at reports your morning ritual to go along with that nasty coffee habit—you may know about the large quantities that appear at Mt. Baker Ski Area most mornings. Especially during the 1998-1999 season, its 1,140″ snowfall was nothing short of legendary and recorded as a world record. […] Mitchell Milbauer | June 9, 2022 6 Comments
The Top 9 Most Annoying Things About Skiing and Snowboarding According to Our Readers We all love skiing and riding. The mountains. Nature. But that still doesn’t stop us from getting annoyed from time to time. We’re mortal. So we asked our readers what they felt the most annoying things about skiing/snowboarding were, and the answers they gave us were pretty hilarious. Here are the top nine reader-submitted answers as to what bugs people […] Laughs SnowBrains | June 3, 2022 6 Comments
Mammoth, CA Report: Splendiferous Skiing w/ Surfer Steve in June! Report from June 1 & 2, 2022 It’s June. It’s June and Mammoth is still skiing splendiferously! I was blown away by how good it skied today and yesterday. It didn’t hurt that we got about 4 or 5 hard freezes in a row. Skiing in a T-shirt and shorts? Not exactly this May and June. It’s often been cool […] Conditions Report Miles Clark | June 2, 2022 0 Comments
Mary Jane, CO Report: 16 Inches for Closing Day Report From Saturday, May 21, 2022, at Mary Jane, CO The season ended with a bang at Mary Jane this weekend after a May storm dumped over a foot across Colorado and 16 inches at the Jane. Only a couple of Colorado ski areas were still turning lifts, with Mary Jane among them, and its closing day happened to be an […] Conditions Report Aunika Skogen | May 23, 2022 0 Comments
Mammoth, CA Report: Bluebird Powder Day in May at 7:30am Report from May 11, 2022 We awoke today to a bluebird powder day. It felt weird to wake up at 6am for it… But the mountain opens at 7:30am right now! We were in line right at 7:30am when it opened and we went straight to wait for Chair 23. We could tell that the snow generally wasn’t gonna be […] Conditions Report Miles Clark | May 12, 2022 3 Comments
The 9 Most Expensive Daily Lift Tickets in the USA Last Season A daily lift ticket exceeded $200 at ten ski areas during peak season last year, with one resort charging $249. Two hundred and forty-nine bucks! Last season, only the top three exceeded $200. A psychological barrier has been passed. Related: Dissecting the $200+ Lift Ticket Skiing isn’t a cheap sport, but it is something we all love to do—and most of the […] Industry News SnowBrains | May 10, 2022 30 Comments
40-Feet of Snow Fell in 5-Days in Lebanon in 2012 Lebanon got forty FEET of snow in five days in February 2012. 480″. More than 90% of US ski resorts get in a whole season. Related: The Top Snowfall Events in Recorded History: That officially qualifies as a lot of snow in a short period. View this post on Instagram A post shared by SnowBrains (@snowbrains) Lebanon comes from the […] Industry News SnowBrains | May 9, 2022 2 Comments
Tioga Pass, CA Report: Solstice Couloir + Banana Chute = 1 Concussion, 1 Dislocated Shoulder, 2 Heinous Chutes Report from May 3, 2022 Today was wild… I skied the worst snow I’ve ever skied on Tioga Pass. One of our crew aired onto rocks in the parking lot, got a concussion, and dislocated his shoulder. We had to take him to the hospital. I pulled a 1cm long sea urchin spine from the Maldives out of my foot […] Conditions Report Miles Clark | May 4, 2022 4 Comments
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