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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

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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

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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

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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

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VIDEO: Beartooth Highway — “America’s Most Beautiful Roadway”

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SnowBrains | April 18, 2020

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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 […]

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Sydney Stephens | July 12, 2019

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VIDEO: Crews Encounter 18 Foot Tall Drifts While Clearing The Beartooth Highway In Montana

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WeatherBrains | April 24, 2019

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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 […]