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Pow Days... greatest moment?

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passthesteezplz
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dank pow days. its what we live for. whats ure greatest pow sesh

Sep 23 2009 5:59PM
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RudyGarmisch
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Hope on the Slopes this past year at Stevens Pass... after nearly 24 hours of near continuous skiing (brief 5 hour nap) I get up and bypass the lift lines to ski even more deep pow that was falling over the last day and night nonstop. Get in line for the backside chair before all the weekenders and slay open, deep, untracked fields with some of my best friends.

This was the car when we got back to it, beaten, exhausted and happy:

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Sep 23 2009 6:06PM
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fillup
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With my cousin, we dropped this line that was pretty open but with some trees. It was bumpy with perfect sized cliffs. Busted down that shit, hitting cliffs sometimes not even knowing it. Bouncing thru the pow and coughing on snow. It was the best run.
Sep 23 2009 6:09PM
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Oreos
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my threads. i like reading these sort of stories.
Sep 23 2009 6:16PM
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DrStrangelove
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when i was a liftie last year and used to take service ride on pow days in the morning on my days off like an hour before the lifts would open in vail

got to get our session started early, gradually pushing back, so we were always 2 steps ahead of the crowds...it's like having a private mountain until like 1 or 2pm

definitely doing that a lot this year
Sep 23 2009 6:19PM
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wesley.
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skiing in snow past my waist like 3 years ago.....

god i love being short
Sep 23 2009 6:23PM
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skiminnesota
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getting a txt message from my dad saying it was dumping in Utah. get home from college, throw all my stuff together, 45min later leaving for the airport. getting to SLC at 12am. the next day skiing knee + deep pow. mid april. i wrecked myself pretty bad (tomahawked a couple times) and my brother lawn darted into the snow up to his boots. it was awesome. 
Sep 23 2009 6:39PM
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garrets
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living on the east coast i dont get much powder... but the best pow day ever was in stowe when there was 2 feet of powder and me and my friend hit all the glades best day of skiing ever
Sep 23 2009 6:43PM
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mak
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hitting some nice tree runs last year in shin-deep snow, ontario's finest
Sep 23 2009 6:44PM
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s.miller
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Getting a call from Ethan, AKA NS's Kamikaze at about 10:30pm on nights that we didnt plan on skiing and hauling ass to Mt. Hood Ski Bowl for last chair on upper bowl.  The best night-cap a skier could ask for on those lazy midweek nights
Sep 23 2009 6:51PM
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Karma_Police
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Jackson Hole 2 years ago spring break 14 12 16 18 12 in five nights best skiing ever, snowboarder I was with couldn't even get up after a hike we did, I am 6' 3" and it was waist deep in some places, stupid absolutely stupid awesome.
Sep 23 2009 6:51PM
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Uncle.Badness
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Only pow day Ive ever had tried my first fronts. Didnt land em but it was so sick that it didnt matter.
Sep 23 2009 6:55PM
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crunkasfuck
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WHen its DEEP!!
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Sep 23 2009 6:56PM
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*Johnny
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why we don't have some sick pow day in the east ?!
Sep 23 2009 7:03PM
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buddychaps
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Alpental doesn't get alot of snow, but when it dumps, shot six is thee best place to get deep snow besides the backcountry
Sep 23 2009 7:03PM
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dr_phil
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Last winter in Whistler, we got some fresh tracks tickets for what was one of the only big dumps of January. Epic tree runs in Blackcomb and Whis.

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in late february, waist deep at Jay Peak, skiing the ridge was sooo MONEY. (but don't go to Jay Peak, it's always icy)
Sep 23 2009 7:04PM
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abc8tr8we98g
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i think it was 3 years ago at monarch, just dumping like crazy...skied knee to waste deep all day, would go up the lift and our tracks would already be gone from the previous run...my face was sore after that from smiling the whole time...i just couldnt help it
Sep 23 2009 7:12PM
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holyDINOSAURS
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Tranny Finding is the most fun thing ever when its deep. scope a zone to make sure there isnt anything TOO gnar in your landing, then jump blind off whatever at weird angles and try to land perfectly in transition
Sep 23 2009 7:34PM
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s.miller
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Sep 23 2009 7:46PM
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Lanceasaurus
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When me and P-fo went to the unexplored by the average joe trees right off the lift and you spend from the top to bottom of the mountain slaying turns through trees about 3ft apart at best. One day we got like 12 inches and 6 inches or some shit perfect amount of pow for face shots. We killer lines all the way down on untouched pow face shot after face shot and got some sick stump kickers!!! Oh and those bent over trees that are high enough to pop over, it felt so sick! We got like 8 runs through that shit till we moved on to get some more untouched pow... Trust me if you skied at White Pass you would know that 8 runs is alot to get untouched every run. Had to be the sickets pow day I had all season. Pretty much my whole life.
Sep 23 2009 7:53PM
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SkierX
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This past Decmber, eith ther 22nd or the 23rd.

It had snowed about 40 inches in the past week here at Killington.

I remember the first run, coming down the first pitch which was windblown to hardpack. I made a few turns, then hit this massive wall of snow and just flew over my tips, face first into super soft powder.

That day was so awesome.

See my profile for photos.
Sep 23 2009 8:00PM
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J-Neal
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It was dumping in ontario for about 16 hours straight, starting late friday night and it was still dumping on saturday morning. I got up early for work,  - I work at Dagmar in Ontario where a powder day is fairly unknown, I got to work super early and the snow was up to my knees.  All my buddies who I work with were there early too, all super stoked because we never see days like this in Ontario. We all got first tracks and had a ton of fun, skied pow for a few hours before we had to teach our first lesson of the  day.  

Definately a day to go down in Dagmar History.

Sep 23 2009 10:52PM
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p-fo
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last pow day of the year last year at WP. skied epic pow on the way to park!
Sep 23 2009 10:56PM
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Contender
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Hope we get some sweet pow this year in ON.  I was in Collingwood at that time too :).  Had so much fun on the glades and groomers.
Sep 23 2009 10:57PM
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