Music Mondays | Grace Potter and the Nocturnals {It’s Monday, and that means it’s time for Music for your Monday’s, a new weekly feature here on Snowbrains where we bring you a band or artist that we think deserves a spot on your skiing, riding, biking, whatever playlist.} This week we bring you Grace Potter and the Nocturnals, whom you East Coasters may already be familiar with, but […] Jesse Cassidy | June 3, 2013 2 Comments
Music Mondays | Daft Punk {It’s Monday, and that means it’s time for Music for your Monday’s, a new weekly feature here on Snowbrains where we bring you a band or artist that we think deserves a spot on your skiing, riding, biking, whatever playlist.} This week we bring you Daft Punk based on a suggestion by reader Tydel. Daft Punk has been pushing the […] Jesse Cassidy | May 27, 2013 3 Comments
Music Mondays | AWOLNATION It’s Monday, and that means it’s time for Music for your Monday’s, a new weekly feature here on Snowbrains where we bring you a band or artist that we think deserves a spot on your skiing, riding, biking, whatever playlist. For the first post we bring you AWOLNATION, a band that many of you may know because of its popular […] Jesse Cassidy | May 20, 2013 5 Comments
Would You Ski in China? Lets ask the question: “would you ski China?” While not known for its terrain, or its snow, and overshadowed by the amazing skiing in Japan, why would you even consider taking a ski trip to China? The same reason you would go to Iran, or Antarctica to ski – for the adventure. China, a country of 1.3 billion people, has over the […] Jesse Cassidy | May 16, 2013 9 Comments
Skiing Within the Borders of North Korea l Possible but not Recommended… Recently North Korea has been the subject of much international attention with the country’s new leader Kim Jong-Un threatening to attack South Korea and its allies which include the United States. With all the saber rattling by this small Asian country on the northern end of the Korean Peninsula, many are curious to look inside this very isolated nation. While photographs that come out […] Jesse Cassidy | April 26, 2013 9 Comments
Greg Lindey’s 100 Daffy’s @ Last Weeks Skinny Ski-a-Thon | Video Last week we brought you a full write up on the High Fives Skinny Ski-a-Thon here at Squaw Valley California http://staging.snowbrains.com/highfives-skinny-ski-a-thon/ What we missed however (shame on us) is the fact that Squaw’s own Greg Lindsey broke his record for the most Daffy’s in one day with 100 last Monday. That’s a lot of Daffy’s in one day, on skinny skis, in less than […] Jesse Cassidy | April 8, 2013 1 Comment
Judge Temporarily Blocks Development at Homewood Ski Resort, CA With so much attention focused on Squaw and KSL’s planned village development, another Tahoe ski resort development has been largely overlooked. Homewood Mountain Resort on Tahoe’s West Shore has been experiencing its own “renaissance” plans the last two years as owners JMA have pushed forward proposals to build a village complete with and ice skating rink, slopeside condos, and even an amphitheater. While […] Featured Article Jesse Cassidy | April 7, 2013 5 Comments
Dual Snowboards | Great Innovation or Greatest? In an age where every snow sport company is striving to create the next breakthrough innovation, one company may have just trumped the rest.That company is Dual Snowboards, a new niche market snowboard company that hopes to capitalize in a increasingly unexciting single plank industry. The idea is simple, imagine having two mini snowboards strapped to your feet instead of one, it’s basically the snowboarding equivalent of ski […] Jesse Cassidy | April 3, 2013 4 Comments
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