Patagonia Backcountry Report: Dropping The “Ridgewalker” Pillows & Hucking “The Grifter” Cliff in Deep Powder Snow Report from September 11, 2023 On Monday, we sauntered out into the backcountry for the afternoon. It was Stormin’ Norman all morning then the clouds started to break up as per forecast. The first thing we did when we got up high was dig a pit in a familiar zone. The results were a bit touchy. We know this zone […] Conditions Report Miles Clark | September 13, 2023 0 Comments
Bariloche, Argentina Report: Are Spread Eagles in Tight Trees A Good Idea? Report from September 11, 2023 On Sunday, the snow in Bariloche, Argentina was hot, crusty, and bad. Everywhere. In my ultra-dramatic human standard of being, I wrote the rest of the season off as hot, funky, and weird. A warm, rainy storm was rolling in that day and the forecast was hot, wet garbage. That night, I kept my eye […] Conditions Report Miles Clark | September 13, 2023 0 Comments
2 Inbounds Avalanches Reported at Las Leñas, ARG, After Atmospheric River Drops 10 Feet of New Snow View this post on Instagram A post shared by ABC Avalanchas (@abcavalanchas) After getting over three feet in 24 hours, the latest storm total at Argentinian ski area Las Leñas has settled at approximately 10 feet of new snow. This is due to an atmospheric river this past week that has slammed the region of the Andes Mountains that Las […] Avalanche SnowBrains | September 12, 2023 0 Comments
Bariloche, Argentina Report: Deranged Winds & Water Skiing Report from September 10, 2023 at Cerro Catedral, Argentina The weather the past week has been challenging in Patagonia… Every single day has had sun and cloud, wind and weird. It’s been very tough to predict what is gonna happen out there and when to be where. Yesterday was a case in point. We saw that there might be good […] Conditions Report Miles Clark | September 10, 2023 0 Comments
Patagonia Backcountry Report: Mini-Mandatory Air in an Exciting New Chute Report from September 3, 2023 Yesterday, we hauled our carcasses into the backcountry for one last sunny day. The previous day (Saturday) held the best snow we’d ever skied in South America… On this day we went for the Sun Chutes which are north-facing but we were confident that due to the cold conditions, they’d still hold soft snow. We […] Conditions Report Miles Clark | September 6, 2023 0 Comments
[PHOTOS] Utah Ski Resorts See 1st Snow of the Season View this post on Instagram A post shared by SnowBrains (@snowbrains) Just as Utah was shaking off the remnants of last season’s snow, a surprising early snowfall has already blanketed the slopes. Snowbird took to social media this morning to share images of the season’s first snow at Hidden Peak, captured by its Summit Webcam perched at 11,000 […] SnowBrains | September 4, 2023 0 Comments
[VIDEO] Fresh Snow Falls Again at Pomerelle Mountain Resort, Idaho On Sunday night/Monday morning Pomerelle Mountain Resort, ID, got its second snow of the 23/24 season. The ski resort, at 8,000 feet in the Albion Mountains, celebrated as the flakes started to drop after also receiving snow two weeks ago on August 22nd. Unfortunately, the dusting was not more than the 0.5 inches required to be classed as accumulating snowfall. […] SnowBrains | September 4, 2023 0 Comments
Patagonia Backcountry Report: Alaska? Nope… Spines, Chutes, & Fingers in Epic Patagonian Snow Report from September 2, 2023 Yesterday, we got out there early and found rained-on snow and some high-density, delicious cream cheese in the trees on a blustery, cloudy day. Today it went full blue. We expected the typical, wind-pressed, dense, “carton” (cardboard) as they call it here. As we climbed up we started noticing sparkling snow (preserved stellar dendrite – […] Conditions Report Miles Clark | September 4, 2023 0 Comments
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