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Better Powder Skiing?

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leninlover
Posts: 560 - Karma: 148
where in the world has the best powder skiing?
May 14 2006 6:10PM
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the_zissou
Posts: 927 - Karma: 193
utah. it says it on their license plates.
May 14 2006 6:11PM
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1440ski
Posts: 2049 - Karma: 1,110
Utah
Greatest snow on earth
May 14 2006 6:23PM
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AKFREERIDE
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everyone knows its Alaska. god i love here.
May 14 2006 6:25PM
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eheath
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Im not gonna lie, ive skied powder in washington, oregon, utah , wyoming, and montana, and montana has by far had the best powder ive skied, ever.
May 14 2006 6:39PM
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skoganskier101
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im gonna say utah has the best pow, but ive only skied in the east and in utah and colorado, but beleive it or not i had an amazing pow day in nc last season, it was pretty cold(15 degrees) and low humidity and it snowed 20 inches and it was really nice light snow.
May 14 2006 7:44PM
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S2daJ
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im gonna say either jacksons hole or somewhere in alaska with a helicopter.
May 14 2006 7:46PM
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Poormansvault
Posts: 427 - Karma: 10
I would also like to quote something from Scratch my back's sig:

"jay is orgasmic. honestly, offer me a bj or jay peak, i'd choose jay."-stowebum

...Nice. Although March 4-5 this year at Stowe was sick, up above treeline snow was found that had blown in to be at least waist deep.
May 14 2006 8:42PM
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chronic_rider
Posts: 208 - Karma: 10
Whitewater BC...give me that kootenay pow
May 14 2006 9:12PM
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jameslovesponies
Posts: 306 - Karma: 8
mountain creek, NJ
May 14 2006 9:14PM
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MrPantyDropper
Posts: 5016 - Karma: 65
I've skied utah when the water content was 3.4%(or so the charts say so)and it was unbelievable. However Japan looks like it has amazing snow as well.
May 14 2006 9:33PM
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coordy12
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j-hole, steamboat, utah, bc, montana
May 14 2006 9:39PM
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duhamelski
Posts: 3842 - Karma: 192
tahoe gets the most snow and has some of the best terrain in the world
May 14 2006 9:45PM
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r.w
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CANAJA!
May 14 2006 9:47PM
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knotbox
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utah, france, hokkaido. they are all dope in thier own ways!!!
May 14 2006 9:57PM
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leninlover
Posts: 560 - Karma: 148
i feel special because everybody is saying utah has the best powder and im from UTAH
May 14 2006 9:58PM
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Daniel.
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Fernie
May 14 2006 9:59PM
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awsomecoolguy
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yup i'm going to say once again utah
May 14 2006 10:00PM
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Gun_It
Posts: 272 - Karma: 10
Every one has great powder, you just have to know what days, and where to go.
Overall, i'm sure utah has awesome powder, but montana kicks it too.
May 14 2006 10:05PM
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navigator
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the best powder comes from the rockies. it is by far the driest and best but it only comes once in a blue moon. over all i would say it does go to the kootneys and montana because it falls more often but you cant beat skiing knee deep pow 3 weeks after the last storm
May 14 2006 10:11PM
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mattster
Posts: 4120 - Karma: 41
I want to check out japan...
May 14 2006 10:25PM
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O-M
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Lech, Austria or st Anton
May 15 2006 8:13AM
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d-loc
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antarctica
May 15 2006 8:44AM
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ski_cartel
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im caught between montana and kicking horse, cause when horse gets a storm its big and beautiful
May 15 2006 10:49AM
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SkierJulie
Posts: 2495 - Karma: 101
little and big cottonwood canyons in beaUTAHful utah.
May 15 2006 11:05AM
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Fulton333
Posts: 130 - Karma: 11
Antarctica is actually a desert it hardly ever snows its just ice. lift lines are huge as well..
May 15 2006 3:04PM
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Gorilla.Steeze
Posts: 2215 - Karma: 43
jea jea. the big 4 resorts up there are the fucking shit
May 15 2006 3:06PM
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bigkstylie
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UT. It has been said that "This is the place".... no truer words ever spoken. My fellow Utahans will get that joke.
May 15 2006 6:26PM
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treesmann
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this depresses me because i live east coast and the one time i went west was utah. no new snow for the week i was there in february
May 15 2006 6:30PM
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t-man152
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Japan has the best powder I have ever seen. its seriously orgasmic

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May 15 2006 6:31PM
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Kajex
Posts: 1069 - Karma: 178
scary part is... there was actually a 1.5 / 2 foot day out here this year.. it was mysteriously gone by the next day tho, i think they purposely scraped it bare
May 15 2006 6:42PM
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mattster
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plus no conniferous trees at all... thats pretty rad
May 15 2006 6:42PM
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skoganskier101
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krasnaya polyana looks like it has some sicknes, so does japan.but there is some amazing powder alta and solitude
May 15 2006 7:13PM
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telestar6
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Tahoe actually doesn't get the most snow. Alta and Snowbird get more snow and it's way drier. But as stated before Japan gets the most snow in the world, on average. Oh yeah and Baker but that snow is super wet.
May 15 2006 7:44PM
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chronic_rider
Posts: 208 - Karma: 10
Kootenays/selkirks, Im tellin ya....why else would there be like 900000 catskiing operations in that area
May 15 2006 11:02PM
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skoganskier101
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i dont know, kirkwood got 850 inches this season, thats more than utah, i think.
May 15 2006 11:04PM
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Aenigma
Posts: 11256 - Karma: 424
He doesn't know what he's talking about, the consistency of montana powder is comaprable to a fat girl's vagina.
May 15 2006 11:16PM
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Dan-Man
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Alaska!! maybe Utah
May 16 2006 11:22AM
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ECgoggletan
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Utah = the promised land
May 16 2006 11:45AM
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telestar6
Posts: 2102 - Karma: 44
Just like Idaho. But when it's good it's as good as anywhere in the country.
May 17 2006 2:01AM
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KeegLove
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YES I AGREE WOOOOHOOOOOO!!
May 17 2006 2:18AM
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skiinscotland
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chamonix for me, but ou have to hike to get the REALLY deep stuff
May 17 2006 10:15AM
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iJib
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Fernie.
May 17 2006 1:15PM
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Kevo
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Utah has some of the lightest fluffiest stuff in the world. Yeah Japan, Alaska, Whistler and Tahoe all get lots of snow, but it is in a maritime weather pattern where the snow is heavy and just not as fluffy pow pow as Utah. Steamboat is supposed to be pretty damn fluffy too.
May 17 2006 1:30PM
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steezin4areason
Posts: 393 - Karma: 20
best pow is utah hands down. now pow is definitely different than big mtn. because jackson hole and alaska are the places for big mtn. but i've skiied the sierras, the chugach, the tetons, the wasatch, and the rockies this year and utah's pow is ... bodacious... yes i said it.
May 17 2006 1:54PM
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ogou0287
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I skied utah, whistler and qc....utah owns it all by far...I went 2 times...and both times it snowed more in 10 days than an entire year at my place on the eastcoast
May 17 2006 8:54PM
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Matty.
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Interior BC.
May 18 2006 1:34AM
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ejoy
Posts: 524 - Karma: 43
Verbier
May 18 2006 1:54PM
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