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What is powder realy like?

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fuckgoof
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I live on the east coast so ive never realy rode powder. Can someone tell me what it is realy like to ride powder and if it is realy that special
Sep 22 2013 4:55PM
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Casey
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Its like a warm apple pie
Sep 22 2013 5:21PM
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Big.Bird
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Its like a warm apple pie
Sep 22 2013 5:23PM
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Lou.
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It's a weird floaty happy comforting feeling that rushes over you like getting a hug from someone you know or love. Or peeing yourself.
Sep 22 2013 5:32PM
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robotdna
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Hmmm...let's see.

It's almost like flying, yet, you feel slight resistance under your planks as you glide. You lean your knees and your skis just glide right around. It's super soft and can be either dry and fluffy or wet and clumpy.

I'm sure you've skied off-piste before, right? Think new snow, but much much more of it.


Hard to really explain. :/
Sep 22 2013 5:36PM
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Jibberino
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As far as I understand, there is lots of powder to be had on the east coast?
Sep 22 2013 5:38PM
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theschneidler
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it's like bags of sand
Sep 22 2013 5:39PM
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jaypeakskier
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No theres not theres a place called to jay peak i had close to 20 pow days last year. averges 350 inches a year. You definetly wont get any pow here beleve me. (350 is more than vail)
Sep 22 2013 5:41PM
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ILLinoisance
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I always thought everyone knew that skiing powder is just like floating on a cloud in heaven, high on meth, while getting blown by a group of angels.
Sep 22 2013 6:13PM
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Bagina
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It's like popping bubble wrap while cuddling yorkshire terriers.
Sep 22 2013 6:24PM
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FUUUCK
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Like moon gravity
Sep 22 2013 6:53PM
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griz_lee
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it sucks.... dont ever come and ride any of the precious powder that cover up all our rails and groomers....
Sep 22 2013 6:58PM
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.Roockley.
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it's a bit of a headrush, makes you feel like a rock star

also if you've been drinking you feel sober-er


Sep 22 2013 7:09PM
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slickrick_shreds
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It's like losing your virginity but it lasts longer
Sep 22 2013 7:20PM
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Download-My-Apps
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Well, lets just say the first time will be awkward. You will be clumbsy and unsure of what to do. Don't let the movies fool you of what its really like. Don't expects these long untouched lines, or pillows to explode. In fact you might be done in 20 seconds, and be a little embarrassed. But the more you ski it the better you get, and the more fun you have. And slowly you will find yourself thinking about it more and more. Remember when you start skiing powder regularly, you and your partners need to use protection, I'm talking helmets, backprotectors, beacons, probes and shovels.
Sep 22 2013 7:22PM
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Alex.B
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pretty expensive and I don't really like to support the cartels.
Sep 22 2013 7:37PM
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louie.mirags
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East coast gets powder. It is the living in nc that is the problem.
Sep 22 2013 7:41PM
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ESB
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This thread gets two thumbs up from me.



Powder: It turns all your bad feelings into good feelings.
Sep 22 2013 7:51PM
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LeEonbar
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watch the first few minutes of MSP's Claim, after the extended intro... that pretty much sums it up
Sep 22 2013 7:57PM
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Balto
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In WA It's wet, heavy, and unforgiving at times. You need to keep your speed up or you will get buried up to your chest and have to dig out. But it's amazing in every way, you can ski the ENTIRE mountain (steeps/cliffs/what ever at high speeds, making deep hard turns that throw up a huge cloud and blind everyone around you.
Sep 22 2013 7:58PM
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last_tango
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Sep 22 2013 8:01PM
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fuckgoof
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I live in North Carolina dud, there is none to be had. But my mtn has the best manmade snow around
Sep 22 2013 10:35PM
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fuckgoof
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Dude your my hero
Sep 22 2013 10:38PM
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californiagrown
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its not so much skiing with the bottom of your skis on a 2D surface, but with the whole ski in a 3D surface. To turn its very floaty, surfy and abstract, where as on groomers it is very precise, sharp, and powerful.


Its pretty life changing.
Sep 22 2013 10:40PM
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Peachbutt
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I ski on the east coast and have had pow days. I can count them on one hand, but I've had them. Tremblant got a few memorable feet last year when I was up there.

To answer your question, it was like sex for my virgin legs. I didn't really know what I was doing, but I knew I liked it.
Sep 22 2013 10:40PM
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fuckgoof
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Indeed My friend, and yes I have seen some vids of pow in vermont
Sep 22 2013 10:41PM
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rylee.the.jedi
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Let's see what's powder like? Powder is the closest thing to complete bliss. When your gliding down a fresh pow run everything is right. You expierence flying practically without having to smoke a lot of drugs. Plus where I live you get float by magical snow creatures called snow ghosts!
Sep 22 2013 10:43PM
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Deforestation
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If u live in the east go to this mountain called Jay Peak in northern Vermont. They get powder that rivals any west mountains. Also, they have some great glades nd backcountry.
Sep 22 2013 10:57PM
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terraclot
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It's worth devoting your life to
Sep 22 2013 11:06PM
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freeballer
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Don't ever ski powder.  You will immediately quit school, quit your job, quit your girlfriend, quit your wife, quit your mistress, quit bathing, quit brushing your teeth, quit doing anything remotely productive in life and you will die a very poor old man with no family or loved ones.  You will move to the ends of the earth for pow pow and will have nothing to show for it.  You will rack up more medical bills than ever thought imagined.  But you will be rad for a small moment in time.
Sep 22 2013 11:28PM
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Z-Juice
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don't need to say anything more, anything else.
Sep 22 2013 11:41PM
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deleted5
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when you squeeze it, it feels like a bag of sand.
Sep 22 2013 11:42PM
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ChasingFlakes
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completely unexplained to the non participant
Sep 23 2013 12:47AM
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LoathesRaisins
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Well, I suck at skiing. So cold, tiring, falling down, getting up, finding your ski, ski a few feet, face plant, get up, face plant and so on and so forth. Takes some practice I guess.
Sep 23 2013 12:54AM
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Holte
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It's like skiing bulletproof ice except its soft and 3 dimensional.
Sep 23 2013 1:52AM
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GANDALF
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just watch this. Dads RIPPING pow. Embedding is disabled so here's the link:

Sep 23 2013 2:23AM
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ThaLorax
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that mad me both smile and miss west coast skiing at the same time.
Sep 23 2013 2:36AM
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ThaLorax
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thats not true. its literally the same as vail.
Sep 23 2013 2:39AM
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steezyclezy
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it feels like your quads are on fire
Sep 23 2013 3:15AM
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CJ_S
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I see what you did there
Sep 23 2013 7:00AM
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bret
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It just feels like you can do whatever you want
Sep 23 2013 7:26AM
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HiImCharlie
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Sep 23 2013 11:04AM
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WVskiing
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Click for larger image like this lol
Sep 23 2013 11:44AM
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ny300z
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im from NY so after i rode powder the first time out west it made me realize its like a whole new thing. One is like ice skating and one is like floating. Skiing the east is fun, skiing powder is the best shit in the world by a fuckin mile
Sep 23 2013 12:20PM
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E__
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Are you a virgin?


It's the best thing in the world, making new tracks no human being has touched through the most magnificent substance, just floating and slashing spraying it in your face. It's amazing man, move hot of there if have any passion for skiing.
Sep 23 2013 12:35PM
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andrewfilthaut
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listen to a random piece of commentary from a warren miller film. should sum it up

Sep 23 2013 1:48PM
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Erikgorn
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You feel like a slice of butter melting on top of a big ole pile of flap jacks... ya
Sep 23 2013 2:49PM
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Top_Gun
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40 year old virgin?
Sep 23 2013 3:18PM
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SSchepkowski
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like peeing in someones moms butt
Sep 23 2013 5:58PM
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SSchepkowski
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like peeing in someones moms butt
Sep 23 2013 5:58PM
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250r
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and vail by no means gets a lot of snow compared to other places on the west coast
Sep 23 2013 6:13PM
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