VIDEO: Meet Caroline Gliech, Professional Ski Mountaineer Professional Big Mountain and Powder Skier Stand Up Paddle, whitewater and racing Sports and Lifestyle Model Freelance Designer – Graphics, Fashion and Hand made beanies Actor, Host and Announcer Writer and Photographer Marketing Consultant Student – recently graduated Magna Cum Laude with a Bachelor’s of Science in Anthropology from the University of Utah. Always learning with future plans to attend business school SnowBrains | September 4, 2015 0 Comments
VIDEO: Powder Skiing BIG Mountain Terrain in Canada Yesterday! This is pretty sick. This guy took advantage of the new snow in Banff, Canada last week and sent Collier Peak. Here is his story of skiing these peak via PerpetualSki.ca: Well, after last week’s adventures a storm came in. I was skeptical, but it ended up dumping a good load of cold snow to quite low in the rockies. It’s smoky like crazy here, so it’s […] Conditions Report SnowBrains | August 25, 2015 1 Comment
The Kickstep Project: Must Watch Video Series What is a week of stable skiing and blue skies like for a steep skier in Alaska? Find out by watching this video series The Kickstep Project created by alaskan videographer/photographer and rad skier Greg Stafford. This series features a bunch of hearty alaskan backcountry skiers who got after it during that week of blue skies. the project was filmed […] Climbing Scott Rich | February 23, 2015 0 Comments
Skiing at Over 17,000-Feet in Argentina: The Super Canaleta As the season came to a close in Las Leñas Argentina, Dorian Densmore, Alejo Sanchez and I decided we wanted to explore and ski something new. Here is what we got up to. Video (by Dorian) and trip report are below. Enjoy. If you’ve ever spent time in Mendoza, you’ve probably noticed some rather large, snow covered peaks not far from the city. This is the Cordon del Plata. We’ve all eyed runs from the city and dreamed about skiing up there, and decided it was finally time to do something about it. The highest peak and most enticing ski line seen from Mendoza is Cerro Plata (19,574ft), which towers more than 17,000 vertical feet above […] Climbing Lee Lyon | October 13, 2014 8 Comments
2 Ski Mountaineers Killed in Avalanche on Shisha Pangma This past Tuesday an avalanche claimed the lives of two Dynafit sponsored athletes who were attempting to climb two 8,000-meter peaks in one week via the “Dynafit Double 8” project. Sebastian Haag and Andrea Zambaldi were hit by an avalanche on Tibet’s Shisha Pangma (8,027m/26,335ft) while climbing at 25,918-feet, only 400-feet below the summit. The avalanche dragged them 2,000-vertical-feet […] Avalanche SnowBrains | September 25, 2014 1 Comment
High Altitude Skiing in Mexico Holly Walker, a friend and fellow ski mountaineer, approached me this summer with the idea of skiing in Mexico. I immediately said: “That is the stupidest idea I’ve ever heard… When do we leave?” So in November I found myself in Mexico with a huge ski bag and a harebrained scheme to ski the 3rd highest peak in North America, Pico De Orizaba. Most people looked at me quizzically when I explained this plan to them…”you can ski in Mexico?”. The answer is yes!…sort of. […] SnowBrains | December 31, 2013 6 Comments
Wrangelled – Alaska Ski Mountaineering Movie The Wrangell-St. Elias National Park in Alaska is bigger than Switzerland and has 3 mountain ranges: the Chugach, […] Miles Clark | September 17, 2013 5 Comments
Ski Mountaineering in Mongolia | “Camels Are Never Cold” movie trailer When we think of Mongolia, we think of high plains, wild asses, camels, yurts, nomads, & yak butter tea. We don’t think of mountains, glaciers, snow, and skiing. Unbeknownst to us, all of these things exist. Mongolia has mountains, plenty of snow, and epic skiing. Ski mountaineering seems to have reached every zone of Earth in recent years but we’ve […] Movie Trailer SnowBrains | July 3, 2013 3 Comments
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