VIDEO: Camera Catches 18-Wheeler Narrowly Escaping Death on Runaway Ramp You know those long, steep, runway-strip-looking pieces of road that you always drive past on mountainous highways with signs before them that read, “runaway ramp?” Seldom do you ever see them actually used, and you often wonder if they are really a necessary installment to the state highway system. Well, here, a runaway ramp in Colorado really proved its necessity […] SnowBrains | October 15, 2021 174 Comments
Don’t Veer for Deer | October, November, December Worst Months for Animal Collisions After a harrowing encounter with a deer in southeastern Pennsylvania this fall, Chrissi Rhodes Villa has a simple message for you: “Please be careful on the roads and watch for deer.” In an instant, a deer bounded into the road and collided with their car, one of nearly 2 million crashes with animals every year. “We weren’t going fast. It just […] SnowBrains | November 6, 2020 0 Comments
Loose Gravel Causes Highway Incident in Idaho: Wile E. Coyote, That You? Loose gravel above a highway in Idaho resulted in a large landslide that left a section of road covered with huge boulders and scary-looking jagged rocks that blocked auto travel. Related: Remembering the Tallest Known Mega-Tsunami That Destroyed a Bay in Alaska The culprit? It’s still to be determined by local authorities, however, the crime scene does look like something […] SnowBrains | July 24, 2020 0 Comments
Glacier Natl. Park, MT: Road Crews Working Hard To Plough Road Buried 15 FEET Deep Glacier National Park in Montana just released an image of a plow driver working to clear a park road of snow on Tuesday. Parts of the road are buried upwards of 15 feet deep from this winter! The park said on their Facebook page: “The crew is making it’s way up the road. This photo is from yesterday, about 1.5 […] SnowBrains | April 25, 2020 0 Comments
VIDEO: Beartooth Highway — “America’s Most Beautiful Roadway” [arve url="https://youtu.be/78HnNT689ac"] SnowBrains | April 18, 2020 Likes Tweets 0 Comments
Snowboard Van Life: An Epic, Mountain Roadtrip The rock climbing community is often accredited for revolutionizing and popularizing the full-time pursuit of an outdoor sport by converting a van into a portable living space and gear room that can be taken to any new project. Inhabitants of their van as dedicated climbers are (respectfully) dubbed as ‘dirtbags.’ Jaden Munro has transferred the vanlife lifestyle to the […] Trip Report Sydney Stephens | July 12, 2019 0 Comments
VIDEO: Crews Encounter 18 Foot Tall Drifts While Clearing The Beartooth Highway In Montana [arve url="https://youtu.be/IT9NIcYvV88"] WeatherBrains | April 24, 2019 0 Likes 3 Tweets 0 Comments
Tales From The Road: To Kill a Coyote for Powder… (written February 3rd, 2019 in Couer d’Alene, Idaho) Sanity? When there’s powder around? No thank you. Apparently, I prefer running around like a lunatic. Running, chasing, rolling in powder like a blind hog. When it all goes to plan, I bath in bliss. When it goes wrong, I can have blood on my hands. Yesterday, I was standing at a helipad on […] Featured Article Miles Clark | February 3, 2019 1 Comment
Gear of the Show Winners: Outdoor Retailer 2019 With today being the last day of the Outdoor Retailer Snow Show, we wanted to cite products that rose to the top of Gear of the Show, as posted by OutsideOnline. These could all serve as good V-day gifts for your outdoorsy significant other. Or your outdoorsy significant self. G3 Findr Skis These new skis priced at $919 will be […] Gear Sydney Stephens | February 2, 2019 0 Comments
VIDEO: Road Clearing In Norway Is Next Level [arve url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpzG7jyPjk8"] Chris Wallner | May 9, 2017 172 Likes 4 Tweets 0 Comments
Silverton, CO Avalanche Injures 2 Backcountry Skiers & Buries Highway 15-Feet Deep A skier triggered avalanche on Red Pass near Silverton, Colorado injured two skiers and covered the highway, US 550 on February 13th. The avalanche triggered was a large wet slab that buried the road in 12-15 FEET of avalanche debris. The skiers who were caught in the slide sustained minor injuries, but luckily there were no deaths. The slide was […] Avalanche Keenan Grady | February 17, 2016 1 Comment
9,624-Foot Sonora Pass, CA is OPEN | Earliest Opening in a Decade | Tioga Pass is OPEN to Pass from the East 9,624-foot Sonora Pass (first crossed in 1852) on California highway 108 crosses the Sierra Nevada in an impressive place. Impressive, because its highest point is right in the middle of fantastic ski terrain. The pass just opened and while that’s a […] Weather Miles Clark | April 25, 2013 13 Comments
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