Powder Mountain, UT, Report: Paradise Awaits Report From Martin Luther King Jr. Day, 2024 The smell of sweet, sweet freedom lofted in the snow-sparkled breeze in Powder Mountain’s parking lot yesterday morning when we got there around 10:30. It was a mix of autobus diesel, stinky liners in the back of our car, and fresh, crisp mountain air. Powder Mountain didn’t open at all on Sunday […] Conditions Report Martin Kuprianowicz | January 17, 2024 0 Comments
Beaver Mountain, UT, Report: All I Want For Christmas is to Ski The Beav Report from Saturday, December 23, 2023 There’s only one thing better than skiing. It’s going skiing with friends and family. We gathered the fam this Christmas weekend and took a trip north from Salt Lake to Beaver Mountain. The uniquely east-facing mountain is located about 45 minutes away from Logan, Utah, in the Northern Wasatch Mountains—about a 2-2.5 hour drive […] Conditions Report Martin Kuprianowicz | December 24, 2023 1 Comment
Snowbasin, UT, Announces Opening of its New Lift and Expanded Patio Christmas is coming early to Snowbasin with a new lift and more openings. Snowbasin’s highly awaited newest lift, DeMoisy Express, is set to open for the first time on Tuesday, December 19. This new addition will follow in the footsteps of Becker, which opened today, December 13, and Porcupine and John Paul, set to open on Friday, December 15 for the […] Industry News SnowBrains | December 13, 2023 0 Comments
Powder Mountain, UT, Owner Reed Hastings Reveals $20M in Changes and Semi-Private Model Coming to Ski Area Next Summer Powder Mountain’s owner Reed Hastings announced some major changes to its lift infrastructure and organizational vision today. In a letter attached below, Hasting outlines all of the exciting upgrades coming to the Utah resort as a result of a $20 million investment next summer, including the shift to a semi-private model where parts of the mountain will be accessible only […] Industry News SnowBrains | December 12, 2023 0 Comments
Brian Head Resort, UT, Opens More Terrain Brian Head Resort, Utah, announced today, December 7, 2023, that the resort has started spinning the Giant Steps Lift. The high-speed lift, also known as Lift 2, Â provides top to bottom skiing on the upper Sunburst and Lower Double Aught trails. The opening of the Giant Steps lift was possible thanks to natural snowfalls as well as recent upgrades of […] Industry News SnowBrains | December 7, 2023 0 Comments
Deer Valley, UT, Opens for Skiing this Saturday, December 2 Deer Valley, Utah, will open for skiing this Saturday, December 2, 2023. It looks to be a fun opening weekend with the weather forecast calling for a high of 17 degrees and a blizzard bringing fresh snow. Free refills anyone? With season total snowfall sitting at 30 inches, Deer Valley has a good base even before this new storm rolls […] Industry News Jeremy Thom | November 30, 2023 0 Comments
Come Celebrate Miles Clark’s 300th Ski Day This Year With Champagne at Solitude, UT, This Saturday, Dec. 2 Mile Clark’s mother was a stubborn gal. She passed away last winter from her fourth battle with cancer. She went out in a raging storm that knocked out the power. To honor his mother’s stubbornness, Miles decided that the most stubborn thing he could do was try and ski 300 days within a year. Well, this Saturday, December 2, will […] Industry News SnowBrains | November 29, 2023 0 Comments
Letter From The Editor: Myths, Fallacies, and the Usefulness of Social Media in the Backcountry I took my role as Editor with SnowBrains four years ago, when I was a young college kid at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. I wanted to ski every day and find a way to make a living from writing, and by some cosmic chance I landed an internship with SnowBrains. Not long after that, I was […] Backcountry Martin Kuprianowicz | November 29, 2023 0 Comments