Banff Sunshine Open for Summer Two-Week Skiing Period It’s June, but you can still ski in Canada. Thanks to one of the snowiest winters in the resort’s history, Banff Sunshine in Alberta, Canada, has reopened its slopes for summer skiing. From June 20 to July 5, guests can enjoy summer laps on the resort’s leftover snowpack, with access to select terrain and an opportunity to combine skiing with […] Industry News Quinn Brophy | June 22, 2026 1 Comment
Timberline Lodge, OR, Report: Wide Open Glorious Snowfield on a Long Holiday Weekend Report for Friday, June 19, 2026 I’m lucky to live in Oregon, close to Timberline Lodge, which is one of the few places in North America to offer summer skiing. I hadn’t been on the snow since I went heli skiing in Alaska in mid-April. It felt so good to make turns again. Related: Points North Heli-Skiing, AK, Report: Bucket List […] Conditions Report Brent Glogau | June 20, 2026 1 Comment
Banff Sunshine, AB, Records Second Snowiest Season on Record, Plans for Summer Skiing When winter died across much of North America, it thrived in the Canadian Rockies. Banff Sunshine officially recorded its second snowiest season on record. 404 inches (1,025 centimeters) of snow fell on the resort during the 2025-26 season, pounding its average snowfall of 242 inches (614 centimeters). The resort closed on May 18, but thanks to the record-breaking year, it will […] Industry News Quinn Brophy | May 26, 2026 0 Comments
Banff Sunshine, AB, to Reopen for Summer Skiing After Record Snowfall Just when most ski resorts are shutting things down for the season, Banff Sunshine, Alberta, is getting ready to fire things back up before it has even wrapped up its regular ski season. Thanks to a massive winter in the Canadian Rockies, the resort has announced it will reopen for summer skiing and snowboarding from June 20 through July 5, […] Industry News Brent Glogau | May 6, 2026 0 Comments
Timberline Lodge, OR, Report: Soft Joyous June Turns Report from June 6, 2025 I hadn’t been skiing in over a month and a half. With our summer schedule filling up quickly, I knew I had to make a trip up to Timberline Lodge sooner rather than later. It turns out that early June is a great time to go, as there is plenty of snow and the busyness […] Conditions Report Brent Glogau | June 6, 2025 0 Comments
Summer-Only Ski Resort in Japan Opens 2025 Season with Record Snow Depth While most ski resorts across the Northern Hemisphere are winding down operations, Gassan, Japan, has just started its season last month. Tsukiyama Ski Area at Mount Gassan opened for its 2025 ski season on Friday, April 11, offering one of the world’s rare opportunities to ski in summer. Located in the town of Nishikawa in central Yamagata Prefecture on Japan’s […] Industry News Julia Schneemann | May 3, 2025 0 Comments
Cerro Chapelco, Argentina, Report: Summer Skiing in the Tahoe of South America Report from Monday September 16, 2024 Skiing Cerro Chapelco is located three hours from San Carlos de Bariloche Airport. Only 25 minutes from San Martin de los Andes, it is a gem of a hidden ski town. The town is located in a valley surrounded by the snow-capped northern Patagonian mountains directly on Lago Lácar. The drive from Bariloche called […] Conditions Report Brett Ploss | September 17, 2024 1 Comment
America’s Sole Summer-Only Ski Resort, Beartooth Basin, WY/MT, Pushes Opening Back to This Saturday America’s only summer-only ski resort, Beartooth Basin, WY/MT, will open this Saturday, May 27, 2023. The ski area is located at the border of Wyoming and Montana at almost 11,000ft (3,322m) and is not accessible by car in the winter due to snow accumulations on Beartooth Highway, which can be as high as 26ft in snow drifts. The Beartooth Highway […] Industry News SnowBrains | May 26, 2023 1 Comment
Bariloche, Argentina Backcountry Report: Our 1st Bluebird Powder Day of the Season! Report from August 9, 2022 Yesterday was our 1st bluebird powder day of the season. It was only our 5th day of the season here… That happened quick! Honestly, it can be damn hard to find a blue pow day here – the weather is just so rough here. We took full freakin’ advantage and were out into the backcountry […] Conditions Report Miles Clark | August 9, 2022 4 Comments
Skier On First Date Requires Rescue After a Nasty Fall In “The Great One” Summer skiing is awesome but not without its hazards. The Gallatin County Sheriffs Office is reporting that a 23-year-old female (while on a first date) fell and required rescue while attempting to ski The Great One north of Bozeman, Montana on Wednesday evening at about 9:30 pm. The Great One is an aesthetic north-facing couloir that often holds snow late […] Crash Mike Lavery | August 9, 2019 0 Comments
8 Ski Resorts OPEN in North America This Weekend: If you’re hardcore enough, you could ski a ski resort 7 days a week for the next 3 months at Timberline, OR… If you started skiing in October or November and you skied daily until September 4th, that’d be around 275 days of skiing this season – which is totally doable this winter… You’d really only have September and October off […] Industry News SnowBrains | June 9, 2017 1 Comment
VIDEO: They’re Already Skiing on Mt. Rainier, WA Yep, they’re already skiing up on 14,411-foot Mt. Rainier in Washington state. This video shows a guy skiing down from Camp Muir (10,000-feet) to Paradise (5,400-feet) and the snow up top looks great.Oregon and Washington got hit hard with snow with some places getting […] SnowBrains | September 7, 2015 1 Comment
Chuting for Kiwi Spring Slayage @ The Remarkables, NZ September 8th – 12th, 2013 Oh September…the perfect time to sleep on a plane and wake up in New Zealand! Its hard not to love the South Island of New Zealand. Good coffee, friendly people, crystal clear lakes, stunning vistas and of course, the Remarkables. You see, not only does this ski field cater to families but it has some seriously addicting ‘hike to’ terrain […] Casey Cane | September 19, 2013 0 Comments
Idaho Chute Skiing & Rope Swinging Conditions Report Video | July 7th “Bloomington Lake is one of Southeast Idaho’s best kept secrets featuring summer snow, a rope swing, cliff jumping and great fishing. Located 45 minutes west of Paris, Idaho via dirt road, it was only a short two hour trip from our hometown of Pocatello, Idaho. This video features the antics of Bo Ferro, Sander Hadley and Matt Tsakrios.” – Sander […] SnowBrains | July 11, 2013 1 Comment
Skiing Mt. Blackmore, MT on Summer Solstice & Super Moon | Photo Tour I woke up at 10:36am, June 22nd. Shit, missed my 10 o’clock meeting. After a few cups of coffee and a few phone calls, I get Matt Paris, Bozemanite and local ripper on the line. “SUPER MOON DUDE! LETS GO SHRED BLACKMORE!” Guest Author | June 25, 2013 3 Comments
“Summering in the Sultry Sierra” | Carson Pass, CA Conditions Report June 15th It’s that time of year again in Northern California…hiking, snow skiing, boating & jet skiing! Unknown to what we would find on a back to back low snow year, the objective was clear…to climb and ski around the Carson Pass area off of Round Top Peak (Moon Crescent zone @ 10,381 ft), and to climb and ski as many lines as possible around the Sisters Peaks (10,153 ft).[…] Casey Cane | June 21, 2013 4 Comments
Jackson Hole Conditions Report | “Once is Enough” on June 5th | Video & Photo Tour the skiing starts at 2:00 words, photos, & video by Matt Lombardo Myself and my friend Tom Ashley had been looking at this line from town for a week or so and decided to go and check it out on June 5th. We are both ski instructors at JH and passionate skiers. We rode the tram up with our touring […] SnowBrains | June 10, 2013 11 Comments
Beartooth Basin Video & June 5th Photos: Pig Races, In Bounds, & Outta Bounds Video Description: “We camped at Rock Creek Campground which is the main spot where ski bums camp when shredding the Beartooths. It is about 20 miles from Red Lodge, MT and is at the base of the mountains as you start heading up the pass. A “tent arena” was formed and the shed bums from Bozeman had an outdoor palace […] SnowBrains | June 6, 2013 5 Comments
Beartooth Basin, MT/WY Conditions Report: 2-4 Feet of New Snow & Zero Crowds (editor’s note: Beartooth Basin in MT/WY is open daily from 9am – 3pm. They accept cash or checks only. This is the coolest summer skiing going) words & photos by Justin Modroo, Beartooth Basin co-owner *June 3rd Update* 2-4 feet of snow this past week has helped out by adding base and buffing out the lines. We are still building our park […] SnowBrains | June 4, 2013 3 Comments
A Summer-Only Ski Resort in Montana? Beartooth Basin Will OPEN on May 26th… This is definitely one of the coolest, most core ski areas we’ve ever heard of. It’s a ski area made by skiers & riders, for skiers & riders. Not many of these left out there folks. These guys aren’t selling real estate, damaging huge swaths of natural land, nor trying to get rich in the process. They’re here because they […] SnowBrains | May 23, 2013 18 Comments
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