4 Days on The Snake River with Tributary Whitewater At over 8,000 feet at its deepest point, Hells Canyon along the Oregon and Idaho border is the deepest gorge in North America. The Snake River cuts through the epic canyon that was formed by violent tectonic plate collisions, underwater volcanoes, and immense lava flows. Within the canyon contains some of North America’s oldest anthropology discoveries, hundreds of human artifacts […] Raft Luke Guilford | March 10, 2025 0 Comments
Exploring Whitewater Ski Resort: The Heart of British Columbia’s Deep Powder Report from Sunday February 9, 2025 We arrived at Whitewater Ski Resort in the heart of British Columbia’s Selkirk Mountains, just outside the vibrant town of Nelson. Known for its deep snow, laid-back atmosphere, and world-class backcountry access, Whitewater has earned a reputation as a powder-seeker’s paradise. Our host for the day was Ross Lake, a longtime local and mountain […] Conditions Report Brett Ploss | February 14, 2025 0 Comments
Top 9 Snowiest Ski Resorts in North America [Updated 2024] All data was pulled from each resort’s website as of March 2024. It’s no secret that the West is the snowiest region in North America. Cold fronts come down from the Gulf of Alaska, hit our North-South oriented mountain ranges, and orographic lifting does the rest. There are 10 ski resorts in the west that average over 500” of snow. […] Brains Liam Abbott | March 25, 2024 0 Comments
Tributary Whitewater – Find Your Adventure on Oregon’s Rogue and Snake Rivers Tributary Whitewater In 1978, Tributary Whitewater Tours was founded by Dan Buckley when he began guiding whitewater rafting trips in California. For many years they have been sending trips down the American River, Truckee River, North Yuba River, Lower Klamath River, and the East Fork Carson River, all while spreading the excitement, wonder, and natural beauty that the rivers bring. […] Featured Article Luke Guilford | October 2, 2023 1 Comment
Truckee River is Open for Guided Whitewater Rafting TRUCKEE, Calif. (June 5, 2023) – Historic winter snowfall is providing fantastic and steady river flows for the Truckee River, near Lake Tahoe, allowing Tributary Whitewater to run guided rafting trips on the highly sought-after Verdi section. Once the high water subsides, expected around early July, rafters can enjoy the traditional Boca run. Truckee River rafting began in May, is […] Riverbrains | June 5, 2023 0 Comments
Top 10 Small Ski Resorts in North America for Powder Hounds Putting together a “best of” list can seem rather arbitrary and so wildly subjective rendering the list almost meaningless. To stave off the naysayers, making the cut on this VIP inventory was restricted to those Small Ski Resorts that met all of the following criteria: copious amounts of deep, blower-light powder (300+ inches minimum), maximum of seven real-deal lifts (moving […] Robin Azer | July 6, 2022 20 Comments
Whitewater Ski Resort, BC, Announces Brand New Chairlift | 160+ Acres Of New Terrain Will Be Opened Whitewater Ski Resort, BC, is pleased to announce a new quad chairlift that will run to the top of Silver King Ridge from the main base area. The new chairlift will be a brand-new, fixed-grip quad from Leitner Poma and is scheduled to be spinning for the 2023/2024 winter season. “We are incredibly excited to announce the new quad chairlift […] Industry News SnowBrains | March 21, 2022 1 Comment
British Columbia & Alberta 2020-2021 Season Closing Dates It’s that time of year – as the warm temperatures begin to roll in, it is also that time when we need to unfortunately say goodbye to skiing for the summer months. For some resorts in western Canada, that may only be a week away, and for others you may still have two months of skiing to get in. Whatever […] Industry News Liam Abbott | March 29, 2021 3 Comments
Insights From a Raft Guide What’s the difference between a catfish and a raft guide? One has whiskers and smells bad; the other one’s a fish. This is one of those jokes that doesn’t tend to stray too far from the truth– raft guides are dirty, sun-burnt, mildly hungover, and definitely don’t get paid enough. But you’ll be entrusting them with your life as they […] Raft Spencer Cox | July 29, 2020 0 Comments
Colorado Rafting Season Starts Amidst COVID-19 “All any of us can do is to look at what the health orders are and see if that is something you want to go with or not. If you decide it is not a good idea to go out based on the health order, then don’t. If you look at the health order and say time to go out […] Raft Ryan Flynn | June 25, 2020 0 Comments
Whitewater, BC Report: Cliff Hucks, Snow Ghosts, and Slack Lines! Report from Monday, March 9, 2020 We’ve been at Whitewater Ski Resort in British Columbia for three days now and every run we’ve taken since we got here has been a powder lap. I shit you not. The storm finally cleared yesterday afternoon gifting Whitewater with a 15 inch storm total. Today was absolutely gorgeous. Blower pow and bluebird. What […] Conditions Report Martin Kuprianowicz | March 10, 2020 1 Comment
2 Men Killed in Tree Wells in Separate Incidents at British Columbia Resorts Two people died in tree wells at two separate British Columbia ski resorts over the weekend, as more snowsports accidents lead to fatalities in a tragic weekend. The first happened just after noon on Friday at Whitewater Ski Resort, near Nelson. A passing skier discovered the snowboarder in a tree well in an out of bounds area. They immediately started […] Industry News SnowBrains | January 21, 2020 0 Comments
Canada Ski Area Opening Dates For The 2018/2019 Season. Skiing in Canada is always a good time. The scenery is gorgeous, the people are friendly, and of course, the exchange rate makes things extra affordable! Canada is also on top of their game when it comes to announcing opening dates. Some plan to be spinning lifts in just over a month. That’s awesome! Projected Opening Dates Canada Mt. Norquay: 11/2 Lake Louise: […] Industry News Mike Lavery | October 10, 2018 0 Comments
Top 7 Resorts for The Best Freeride Terrain in Canada (Sponsored By: Kicking Horse Mountain Resort) Designed by Mother Nautre, freeride terrain is the freedom to go big – down rugged ungroomed steeps, chock-full of cliffs, crevices, and chutes. Those who seek it share a passion for adventure and an insatiable desire to stomp epic lines. There is no shortage of get-after it terrain in the Great White North, but some […] Featured Article Robin Azer | November 8, 2017 0 Comments
The Best Ski Resorts on The Powder Highway The Powder Highway is nothing less than a powder junkie’s utopia. This 680-mile road meanders through the interior of British Columbia’s Kootenay Rockies, offering up a wealth of diverse terrain covered in legendary, ultra deep powder. The eight Alpine ski resorts along this famed highway are accessible, yet still remote enough, to keep the lift lines short, fresh tracks a […] Robin Azer | October 19, 2017 4 Comments
VIDEO: Kayaking Sierra Whitewater During One Of The Wettest Winters On Record [iframe id=”https://www.facebook.com/plugins/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FSierraSouthPaddleSports%2Fvideos%2F1373367166059965%2F&show_text=0&width=560″] The Lower Kern is pumping!! Evan Moore just got back from Chile and took no time to paddle the Cataracts of the Kern at 4400cfs. Recent storms have left the rivers flowing at incredible rates for this time of year. Snow in the mountains and rain in the valley has been the perfect combination for some incredible whitewater […] Chris Wallner | March 1, 2017 0 Comments
Whitewater BC, Conditions Report: Stop 3 on the Powder highway tour After a great couple of days skiing at Red Mountain we made the short 1 hour drive to Nelson excited to ski Whitewater. There hasn’t been much snow in the last two weeks but this didn’t matter as what we found was good old fun steep tree skiing, amazing food and beautiful dry packed powder. We spent the morning lapping the […] Conditions Report Tom Gellie | January 31, 2017 2 Comments
Powder in Canada – Revelstoke Stoked with over 100 Inches and Counting The snow is falling in the Great White North and western Canada is the beneficiary. It remains predominately pre-season for most resorts, but Revelstoke has taken an impressive early lead with over 100 inches of snow already on the ground. Kicking Horse (71 in) Whitewater (64 in) and Sun Peaks (47 in) round out the next highest accumulations in western Canada. Whistler […] Robin Azer | November 7, 2016 0 Comments
Whitewater Rafting, Flyfishing & General Debauchery | Klamath River, CA Trip Report The Klamath River runs from Klamath Falls Oregon down through Northern California with its outlet into the Pacific by Klamath, California. It offers some of the best whitewater on the west coast, along with some good fishing. A few weeks ago I took a lil trip up there with my friends Blake and Ryan, where we met […] Raft Jesse Cassidy | April 15, 2015 0 Comments
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