Bellingham, WA, Mountain Rescue Recovers Stranded Snowboarder in Backcountry Near Mount Baker Bellingham Mountain Rescue, a prominent rescue group out of the Whatcom Country Area of Washington State, had their hands full at the start of the new year with a rescue of a backcountry snowboarder who had fallen into a drainage area in the Swift Creek Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest. This area is specifically dangerous in the Mount Baker wilderness due […] Backcountry Anders Henrikson | January 24, 2025 0 Comments
British Columbia Backcountry Report: Eating Sh$% Trying To Ski Invisible Pillows in Canada Report from January 20, 2025 On Monday we couldn’t decide what to do. I’d gone backcountry skiing 15 of the past 19 days and was simply exhausted. We decided to go for the same pillows I’d skied on January 12. It took 4 hours to get to them and we had a few options and none of them looked right. […] Conditions Report Miles Clark | January 23, 2025 0 Comments
British Columbia Backcountry Report: Skiing Powder On A Gorgeous BC Nose, Triggering a Micro-Avalanche, Surfing A Wind-Lip , & Jumping in Donger-Land Report from January 22, 2025 Yesterday we needed to ski in the sun. 7ºF as we left the car (for the 5th backcountry day in a row). Even though it’s been uniquely sunny this month in BC, it’s still tough to actually ski in the sun due to the low snow angle and small amount of skiable terrain that actually […] Backcountry Miles Clark | January 23, 2025 0 Comments
[VIDEO] Papsura | Peak of Evil | Patagonia Films Tucked deep in the Indian Himalaya is a 21,165-foot behemoth called the Peak of Evil, the face is split by a line so perfect and massive it pushed the skills of even the most renowned ski mountaineers. Papsura: Peak of Evil follows professional snowboarders Nick Russell and Jerry Mark from California’s Sierra Nevada to this remote corner of the world’s […] Backcountry SnowBrains | January 23, 2025 0 Comments
Revelstoke, BC, Report: One 5,620-Vertical-Foot Fun-as-Hell Groomer Ski Run Report from January 21, 2025 I was beckoned by the ridiculously long runs of Revelstoke, BC, Yesterday. It was snowing lightly and coldly when I arrived. Not much in this world beats a 5,620-vertical-foot crisp-as-hell groomer. I rode the 2 gondolas to the upper mountain and slid down to the Stoke chair. I exited the top of the chair with […] Conditions Report Miles Clark | January 22, 2025 1 Comment
British Columbia Backcountry Report: 3,600-Vertical-Foot Powder Run = Our Longest Run of the Year Report From January 19, 2025 We talked Axel, the hut keeper from our BC hut trip in early January, into showing us around the BC backcountry on Sunday. We chose an obscure zone that doesn’t see many tracks. We jogged along in the sun and couldn’t resist doing a mini-lap on the spiney-thinger zone on the way up. The snow […] Conditions Report Miles Clark | January 21, 2025 0 Comments
British Columbia Backcountry Report: Skiing A Classic Zone In Powder & Filtered Sunshine Report from January 18, 2025 On Saturday we decided we needed to ski in the sun. 7ºF at the car. To be clear, it’s kinda once in a lifetime here right now with clear skis and low avalanche danger in January. This is a rare combination here. We ran into an old friend in the parking lot and changed our […] Conditions Report Miles Clark | January 21, 2025 0 Comments
[VIDEO] ‘Octopus’ – Splitboarding 8 Couloirs in 24 Hours in Chamonix with Nick Russell and Pica Herry Jones Pro Team rider Julien ‘Pica’ Herry finds a unique Chamonix adventure in “Octopus,” a film that follows Pica and friends (Laurent Bibollet, Nick Russell, and Manu Gross) as they climb and ride eight couloirs in a single push. With a passion for linking up terrain in creative ways, the crew goes dawn-to-dark on the Aiguille de la Glière, riding […] Backcountry SnowBrains | January 21, 2025 0 Comments
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