What is the deepest pow you have skied in?

[Beartrap]

20"of powder at Loveland, CO in 1999 from The Ridge.
24"of powder at Winter Park, CO in 1999 Parsenn Bowl
20" of powder at Killington in 2001 on Snowdon Mtn

I still cannot ski it now, nor back then, but I still have fun and that's all that counts....

 

[roark]

mid thigh Sierra cement on skis with a 67 waist. Next time I'll be better prepared.

 

[koreshot]

What's powder? Is that when there is lots of new fresh snow thats loose and fluffy?

I have seen people in movies skiing through that stuff, but I didn't realize normal people did it too. I don't get it. Is it more fun than skiing on groomed trails?

 

[andyzee]

What's powder? Is that when there is lots of new fresh snow thats loose and fluffy?

I have seen people in movies skiing through that stuff, but I didn't realize normal people did it too. I don't get it. Is it more fun than skiing on groomed trails?

Nah

 

[RIDEr]

I have a tie... both of them being in whiteout conditions with a knee high POW week. (Kitzbulhel, Austria Feb\Mar 2004 & St Moritz, Switzerland Jan\Fed 2005)... That was a fun flashback... now bring on the snow !!!

 

[from_the_NEK]

AHM Wrote:
For those who have caught epic Jay days, you know exactly what I mean.

There are really too many epic Jay days to count.
I was there on the huge powder dump in March 2001. I believe it was back-to-back 30 inch days. That was my first year really skiing and I was still trying to learn powder. I want a weekend like that again I went through the ungroomed park and jumped into the pipe. There was so much snow I crashed and ended up litterally swimming around searching for my skies for 20 minutes.
Last year's 26 incher on March 4th was really good too. The "hike to" terrain due to closed lifts was amazing.

I've had several really good days at Burke. However, Burke lives more by the consistent 10 inch snowfall than the big dumpers. The nice thing is, that 10 inches will last tree days until the next one. :wink:

I had a really good day at Copper 2 years ago. only about 20 inches but I had never skied above treeline with that much pow before. Great time!

 

[pepperdawg]

Deepest - Chest high at Squaw a few years back (2001?) - Even though I was inbounds and it had been bombed, I was so scared it was gonna slide....

Most Memorable - only 12-14" at Wolf Creek (CO) - Lightest fluff I have ever ridden... under bluebird skies midweek....uuuugh...good stuff

Also a few memorable days at Snowbird...and a nice day or two back in the bowls at Vail....

East Coast - had a nice knee deep day at Smuggs a couple of years ago...

mmmm....good thoughts....

 

[kickstand]

March 12-13, 2005, 20-24" at Attitash. By far my best days in powder. Haven't had too many of them, but I felt like this was the first time things really clicked in regard to what to do in deeper stuff.

My buddy talks about a trip he had to Austria in 1999, I think it was. He's about 5'10", maybe a bit taller, and he always describes it as "nipple-deep". Says you had to ski stuff that was at least 40-degrees to even begin moving in that stuff. Can't even imagine that.

 

[dmc]

I've been in the "white room" a bunch of times..

 

[Big Game]

October 27, 2005. Killington. Hiked up for however deep it was. 30" at the top? Not real light and fluffy.

 

[Tin Woodsman]

Loveland - March 2003

The so-called "Storm of the Century" on the Front Range. 86" fell at Loveland in the space of 3-4 days. Chest deep, if you could get moving fast enough. Good times. Yeah, good times.

http://list.uvm.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0303C&L=SKIVT-L&P=R6142&I=-3&X=75424273EC977F4C8F&Y=

 

[andyzee]

I've been in the "white room" a bunch of times..

Black curtains?

 

[Geoff]

I've had two Chile trips where they got 8 to 10 feet of snow at Valle Nevado. One was in August 2001. The other was in August 2005. Even with 95mm-waist Volkl heli-skiing boards, it was waist deep.

The winter of 1999, I had a number of bottomless mid-thigh days. Looking back at my journal, the epic ones were: January 22 at Steamboat. February 8 at Deer Valley. March 3 at Blackcomb. April 1 at The Canyons.

I did a cat skiing trip at Monashee Powder Adventures in December 1999 where every run was waist-deep untracked.

My one heli-skiing experience in New Zealand in September 2000 was only a foot or so of untracked.

I've had many big powder days at Killington but I never really count them among my epic days since the place tracks out so quickly. The best New England powder day I can remember was one where we drove down to lowly Mt Snow for a storm where Killington only got 6-10". It's only intermediate terrain but Mt Snow doesn't track out quickly since their customers don't ski powder. At Killington, you're bottoming out on ice bumps by 10:00.

 

[nhski]

White Room?

 

[56fish]

Pit deep = 46" on me. Pit deep on skis at Kirkwood in 1980 (after weeklong dump - deep snow all over the area) Pit deep on a Fish at Jay nearly every March since 2000 (after any 12"-36" dump accompanied by mega-winds - drifted deep in the trees.)

 

[JimG.]

Park City, UT over the Christmas/New Year's holiday in 1982. Don't remember exact dates.

We were there for 2 weeks; when we arrived in SLC, it was raining. When we got to PCMR, it had just turned over to snow, but the slopes were all green, no accumulation at all. I remember thinking about how I could get out of the 2 week reservation and go somewhere else.

When I woke up the next morning there were 3 feet on the ground and it was still snowing. It was good we were at a resort with relatively mellow pitch...places like Alta and Snowbird were shut down due to avalanche danger. Got to ski the first day in constantly refreshed pow.

And it never stopped snowing. In the 12 days we were skiing it snowed 14 feet! One evening it was snowing so hard I got lost outside my condo...total whiteout. I will probably never experience that much snow all at once ever again.

 

[from_the_NEK]

And it never stopped snowing. In the 12 days we were skiing it snowed 14 feet! One evening it was snowing so hard I got lost outside my condo...total whiteout.

Holy S*$^)$%

The heck with powder days... I need a powder WEEK like that. :blink:

 

[bvibert]

Holy S*$^)$%

The heck with powder days... I need a powder WEEK like that. :blink:

No kidding!

 

[from_the_NEK]

This isn't from te True "White Room" on Big Jay but I think it is a good example of how to inhale powder

 

[JimG.]

Holy S*$^)$%

The heck with powder days... I need a powder WEEK like that. :blink:

It was my first trip to UT...and I wasn't a great powder skier when I arrived.

After those 12 days I could ski powder backwards with my eyes closed.