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Best powder day you ever had

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Ski-hobo
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When was it, and what made it so good

Personally, I ski at a mountain where the snow is either deep and heavy, or its either really light and only a few inches. But the best day I ever had was at Mount Bachelor, the snow has over a foot and a half, Im not sure of the amount, but it was a great day
Feb 10 2003 6:58PM
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Caden
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sadly about 6 inches or so on the side of tremblant... through trees it was fun... the fact that i spent 20 minutes+ hiking to it and finding only 6 inches of pow was dissapointing, but it was still frickin fun.




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Feb 10 2003 7:10PM
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TAK
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Feb 10 2003 9:02PM
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Pipe_Munky
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one day last season. it was around new years and southern ontario got dumped on. the snow wasn't groomable but since there was so much of it they asked us instructors to ski it out and pack everything down. we ended up building a kicker with a nice pow landing and sessioned it for the rest of the day. pow was just over knee deep and it was irresistable. sure i almost got fired for building a jump and hitting it without a helmet but it was well worth it!




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Feb 10 2003 9:09PM
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Dkr
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my self and Chris mulldoon and dave pauls too....on the way back from rossland after the stomp games in idaho. Mid after noon about 3-4 we pulled over and muldoon and I hikled this 400 foot face about 35 degree pitch and skied the lightest fluff I have ever touched. waste/chest deep when standing in it, and so light you sunk right to the base below. MUldoon and I skied this once and it was so deep on video I was not seen...i hardly poped out even as I transfered wait through the turns. Muldoon being taller got some of the sickest shots ove seen. kneck deep the hole way...twas aesome
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Feb 10 2003 9:17PM
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jibs
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oh this is a depressing topic..

last season, you know, when it actually snowed, we had 30 bottomless pow days in a row in fernie...i'd get up at 8:20, check the snow report, if there was less then 20cms of fresh, i'd go back to bed and ride a soft park in the afternoon. Best run was frist tracks on polar peak at fernie, ripped the whole thing in less then 10 turns, and i had to stop halfway because i couldn't see and every time i opened my mouth to breath it would pack with snow.



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Feb 10 2003 9:18PM
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cams
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i would say the beginning of these season on a closed run at tremblant.. it's pretty sad that my best powderday was knee high.. but hey, this is the east coast, w00t


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Feb 10 2003 9:21PM
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pag
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2 weeks ago in ski chantecler I went in the 'woods' and I got sbout 3 feet of powder. Was really fun!
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Feb 10 2003 9:26PM
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DFT1080
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the day after christmas day. we got like 1 1/2 ft. it was sick, to bad i didnt have mty pocket rockets then.

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Feb 10 2003 9:36PM
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jholer2
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on the first day of christmas break jackson got chest deep powder and it was the best day i've ever had
Feb 10 2003 9:37PM
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pag
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wow I would like to have powder like this...
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Feb 10 2003 9:41PM
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skodeo7
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1.) Solitude, UT - Feb 2001 - Chest Deep Pow, untracked all day.

2.) Mad River Glen, VT - March 2001 - Waist deep pow on the east. Once again, untracked all day long.

Surprisingly enough I had a dope ass pow day at stratton. Haha yep, stratton, January 3rd, 2003 - We found sick glades and rode them all day. I found a 200 ft chute that was about 20 feet wide, about 40 degrees steep. Waist Deep Untracked.
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Feb 10 2003 9:43PM
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Ski-hobo
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yeah, this is kinda depresing, people from Utah or Colorado are gonna run it in your faces
Feb 10 2003 9:54PM
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killswitch
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on a ski trip with my school last year to fortress. on the saturday the conditions sucked. ice everywhere. we we're saying all we needed was a few inches for the next day to be deacent. anyways, we stayed the night at the base the hill while it snowed two feet overnight. our group had the hostel to ourselves. the next morning me and my friend got first chair up to knee deep pow all over. to add to that, the road to the hill was snowed in and closed so our group had the mountain to ourselves along with some patrollers for the morning. three words: it fucking ruled.
Feb 11 2003 1:20AM
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UpDawg
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January 1st, 2003, Vail, Colorado! The snow was so deep in the back bowls that it just billowed right over my head...i could hardly see at all...it dumped all day, so much snow, SOOOOO MUCH SNOW! cliff landings were so soft, hell, you couldnt tell when you were in the air and in the snow, everything just floated, and to top it off...it was the first powder day for my new SETH PISTOLS! i've never had so much fun in my life...it was intense.
Feb 11 2003 3:35AM
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Jailbait
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feb 2003....smugglers notch, vermont..it was amazing...
Feb 11 2003 3:46PM
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Dfresh
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ottawa = no powder, most maybe 6 inches at some palce like trembs or vermont somewhere

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Feb 11 2003 3:50PM
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jakes
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january 2 at whistler this year.... skied powder into a floating 3 off of this natural jump off a five foot cliff into perfectly spaced trees with waist deep pow
Feb 11 2003 8:57PM
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gsqueen
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over the last week. it was so sweet 3-5 feet and we got another foot like every day it was so sweet. but the best was like sunday i skied the whole front side all day fresh tracks on all the best shit. then monday skied the whole backside and and it was like a whole new powderday with pow up to my chest. IT was dirty!
Feb 11 2003 11:57PM
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Ds91260
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one day we found these runs, they were unopened with 3-4 ft on each, and they were long ass runs, so we duck the ropes, smoke some grass, and make some lines
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Feb 12 2003 12:02AM
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PurpleSkier
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it snowed like 3ft, then drifted in the park, and the inruns were groomed out by the park coordinators, and i was the first to hit any tables, it was so deep that you got stuck hitting them

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Feb 12 2003 12:04AM
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PhattTim
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Probably my best day was skiing a new chute or line every run of the day in chest deep powder with a couple rad mates, that was a sick sick day.

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Feb 12 2003 12:26AM
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mfpukala11
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solitude, UT - feb 2000. the two previous days i had skied at alta and snowbird, without any fresh. wake up to cloudy skies, drive to solitude, and they had 8 inches of fresh :). me, being from the east, never skied powder like that so i was in heaven :)
Feb 12 2003 8:46PM
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lineskier10
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ya this weekend at stowe was sick, it snowed so much and we went back into the woods behind the gondola and we ripped it up in the trees where noone else had gone through the deepest powder ive ever been in, which isnt much but it was still sick
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Feb 12 2003 9:01PM
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ECFS-Attitash
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alta, waist deep, march 2002

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Feb 13 2003 12:26AM
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rocketboy
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what is powder
Feb 13 2003 11:28AM
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asapCferg
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found this thread so i didn't have to repost

but today was a really nice powder day. i got first tracks on a glade and it was so nice. Bunch of people were up so there was plenty of people to ski with, just over all a good day
Feb 28 2010 8:53PM
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KiDCuDi
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im guessing you were at sr. i was there too, today was really fucking nice. probably one of the best days all season
Feb 28 2010 8:55PM
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DutchhGutss
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Moment Tahoe's nice night session of skiing when a storm was hitting, my first night out on them it was a couple feet of pow just ridding all the closed trails at night, but you could still see so dope!
Feb 28 2010 8:59PM
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steezmoe*
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smugglers noch like 4 years ago on valentines day we got 4 feet of powder
Feb 28 2010 9:03PM
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skijunkiedtm
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Aspen bowl when this thread was first made.
Feb 28 2010 9:04PM
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Zoro
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it wasnt even really a powder day but there was some untouched stuff in the trees.  i was out at vail and i hucked one of the cliffs in northwoods into a foot of powder(my first cliff).  oh yeah and i claimed the hell out of it.  i went back to try a cliff under the lift at northwoods and i caught an edge coming off of it and bailed like crazy.  it was so fun and i got back up like nothing happened.  i dont know why but i just love falling into powder.
Feb 28 2010 9:08PM
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Logey.
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last year mid march at alta

The previouse couple days it snowed at least 80 inches of snow and they opened a keyhole to snowbird. It was untracked, chest deep powder and i that was my best skiing/powder experience ever.

Feb 28 2010 9:12PM
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Scott0_robot0
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well i live up the canyon at brighton just past the gates, and it snowed like 4 or so feet the day and night before so they closed the canyon (luckily i live above the gates)  well anyways me and my other friends who live up here went up to eh mountain and rode all day while l=only some of the lifties were able to make it up we were the only people on the mountain until around 11 best day ever got first tracks on almost everything.
Feb 28 2010 9:16PM
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GayWolf420
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ive had a couple. most of them were at PC (I know, PC is not known for pow), it was a really snowy day, not a good day  to ski park but whatever, we went up McConkeys lift and skied some trees that barley no one had skied. there was atleast 3ft of untouched pow. it was dope. Another day was we hiked up Jupiter Peak and skied some untouched lines. it was soo sick
Feb 28 2010 9:16PM
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Steeze_Cake
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I live in the East, so i like ice :)
Feb 28 2010 9:19PM
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teleTay
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Dec 30 or 31, 2010

Alta, UT at least waist deep first tracks of the whole season in Supreme Bowl...messed up my bases hardcore but it was worth it



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Feb 28 2010 9:20PM
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Jib-Ninja
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April 2009 - Powder Mountain, Utah - Waist deep, the visibility wasnt the best because it was still coming down but it was one of the best days of my life. the first time i really got any powder higher than my knees and people on the lift were just stoked on how much i was killing it. I wish i could put that day on replay for the rest of my life.
Feb 28 2010 9:24PM
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skiminnesota
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Jan 2009 Alta Utah. knee deep only :(
Feb 28 2010 9:29PM
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Logey.
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Steep slope

decently wide skis to float on top

lean back

Feb 28 2010 9:33PM
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jblaski
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Middle of January this year. At Snowbird. Had a buddy come down from Grand Targhee. It was during that big storm that buried Tahoe too. Rode thigh deep most of the day. And then we decided to hike a bit. Made our way over to some runs that hadn't been opened yet. (to the left of the tram. It was the last run of the day, and it was waist to chest deep. I was choking on snow and it was one long face shot top to bottom. Unfortunately, that was day 4 of 5 this season. THANKS ECONOMY!
Feb 28 2010 9:34PM
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skithesprings
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you just kind of bounce and float around, it's really impossible to describe. you just have to experience it for yourself. good light deep snow can be plowed and splashed through where as heavier pow needs to be surfed around on, almost on top of it.

speaking of pow days, I have 12 days of 12+ inches this year. this weekend was 29 inches on Saturday and another 8-10 for today. east coast is killin it this year.
Feb 28 2010 9:39PM
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yojimbo
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had a good one today for the east coast. knee deep to midthigh in places. had some good ones out west a couple weeks ago too. best to date was probably snowbird last febuary. first time skiing waist deep powdersnow ever. (only time to date) mad fun.
Feb 28 2010 9:47PM
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whis.skier
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3 days ago on whistler
Feb 28 2010 9:56PM
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b-ladd
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Two days come to mind. One preseason at Alta, hiked up and skied super light fluffy pow down a steep face, probably around thigh deep, and so worth the hike. The other day that comes to mind was a couple weeks ago at Park City. Laps off of Pioneer Ridge, nipple deep, it was ill.
Feb 28 2010 10:10PM
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Willard
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2 years ago me and my buddy, first tracks down a wide open field couldn't see where i was going the entire time. Great way to start off the day.
Feb 28 2010 10:13PM
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soulskier
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4-19-08
last day of the trip on the glacier at blackcomb, the blowhole i believe
Feb 28 2010 10:16PM
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Mr_W00
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last year at Alpine Meadows. sencond strait day of waist deep pow. two friends and i were hiking to hit some untracked and halfway down some dude in a red jacket started yelling at us to stop, so thinking it was patrol we did. nope is way jonny mosley shooting for warren miller and we were about to snake his line. the guy is a complete tool! he didnt even thank us for stopping! but... it was epic fluffy stuff and it was an epic day
Feb 28 2010 10:40PM
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erichkuss
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Today actually. I usually ski park but me and my friend got bored and went tree skiing it was about a foot and awesome, and all with invaders
Feb 28 2010 10:43PM
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SgtSteamy
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2008 - My senior year.

This was the big year. My front lawn had maybe 5 feet of snow out front. I can't remember ever getting more snow than that year. It was a Saturday, in February, and I had slept in. It had snowed Wednesday through Friday night. Cursing myself for missing out on an epic day, I got out of bed and called my buddies. We got to Snowbasin around 10 AM and were on the John Paul Quad. We had noticed the John Paul [whole right side of the mountain] had not tracks. They were still controlling it. I noticed 4 snow patrolmen ahead of us on the lift and I suggested we follow them.

They got off John Paul and headed right to the Tram's lift. We hopped on the tram with them while everyone else evaded the tram line for guaranteed pow below. While we were on the tram the patrolmen mentioned they had been given the OK to open up John Paul/ No Name Peak. We followed them and were the first down No Name.

I remember not being able to breathe down most of the run. Blue bird conditions. Top to Bottom first tracks.

I don't think I'll ever experience anything like that again.

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Feb 28 2010 10:49PM
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klayer_9
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It was around mid December 2009 got 2-3 feet of powder at Alta. It was awesome because it was the first day I skied my new Maestros. I had never skied a rockered ski before and it was so epic. Just floated through the pow, getting face shots and dropping cliffs.
Feb 28 2010 10:57PM
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