Your Perfect Ski/Board Day

[billski]

Mine:

Waking to find an unforecasted 10+ inches of pow, Tooling along in my nice warm toasty car, passing hundreds of snowbound vehicles, seeing most SUVs in the median, arriving at the resort to find the parking lot nearly empty and all the lifts turning.



What's yours?

 

[mister moose]

Waking to find an unforecasted 10+ inches of pow, Tooling along in my nice warm toasty car, passing hundreds of snowbound vehicles, seeing most SUVs in the median, arriving at the resort to find the parking lot nearly empty and all the lifts turning.

Keep dreaming. This is a real perfect day, and they usually are stumbled upon:

Pipe Dream

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

Waking up slopeside..a solid 2 hours before the lifts open...caffeine, weed and bacon for breakfast..waiting for first chair 30 minutes early..watching as the line builds up behind me. Racking up the vert..really doesn't matter if it's powder or bumps or groomers..just lots of runs..early lunch in an empty on mountain lodge..back out for more..then drink beer..get safe and join some snow bunnys and cougars in the hot-tub..followed by a gourmet dinner and then flipping a coin to see which snow bunny I take back to casa de GrilledSteeze..pretty much the way everyday at Jackson Hole is except the slopeside part and snow bunnys as the town is a sausage fest..

 

[billski]

Keep dreaming. This is a real perfect day, and they usually are stumbled upon:

Pipe Dream

It has happened three times in 30 year. Them are the odds, unless you live slopeside...

 

[Warp Daddy]

Eastern Pow dump over the tops of the boots or better left ungroomed .Making first or early tracks in the champagne hero snow with a brilliant sunshine and uncrowded slopes -------------- We ,,have had this experience a few times last season @ Titus -----------------------------awesome --priceless ---memory making,spirit lifting .fountain of youth that can charge the batteries for a looooooong time

 

[deadheadskier]

Stowe, 24 inches of blower on top of a deep base. Still dumping all morning, 89 is closed.
Snow finally stops at 1 PM after 5 hours of having the place just to those fortunate enough to be there. Afternoon sunshine, but still in the mid 20's not allowing the snow to get manky.

I've had several days like above when I lived in town and I wouldn't trade it for being anywhere else. Mansfield on a good day is as good as it gets for me.

 

[dmc]

Day II Kashmir...
A mile of thigh deep Pow.. at a nice angle...

 

[bigbog]

Love the big-Kahuna snowstorms where in its early stages I can get going early to either the Loaf or up north-with skins and have the second half of the storm just obliterating traffic(to Sugarloaf) to keep the crowd to a minimum....(*If I'm heading up north...I do need traction to return though).The snow....never letting up...love to ski in snowstorms.

 

[eastcoastpowderhound]

nipple deep pow at snowbird...jackson...or whistler...that would be pretty perfect.

 

[wa-loaf]

Snowed in in Little Cottonwood Canyon with the access road closed.

 

[riverc0il]

Mid-week surprise foot and a half of fresh that was completely unforecasted slams into Cannon. The storm drops an icy mess in the I-95, I-495, Route 101 beltway causing everyone south of Concord to either be late to the party or deem travel too hazardous to venture north. The foot and a half of fresh falls on an above average base and all lines are in play. Better yet, the storm keeps going for refills and fresh lines throughout the day without fear or worry of competition so it is nice and relaxed. Hit all my favorite and go from open to close and grab a Cannon Ale in the pub after milking last chair in a top to bottom 2100' vertical freenzy.



I have not quite experienced anything like that but I have come pretty close scoring a surprise foot and a half dump at Cannon mid-week style. Thigh deep blow ins of 2+ foot untracked down a four foot wide 35+ degree chute for 1000 vert is DAMN COOL!!!

 

[billski]

Day II Kashmir...
A mile of thigh deep Pow.. at a nice angle...

Ya know dmc, life is never gonna be the same for you after Kashmir! A trip of a lifetime; I just hope you don't end up viewing every powder day in a capitalist country as a letdown! I'm jealous, though I'm fortunate to have other non-powder TOAL's with great memories.

 

[mondeo]

Bluebird Saturday after a 2' storm. Powder in the morning, powder bumps with friends in the afternoon.

 

[BackLoafRiver]

Mine:

Monster storm in Maine. Snow day so, no school. 2' + by 8:00 and it keeps dumping well into the afternoon. Roads up to Sugarloaf empty. Only 10 other people on the hill.

Had at least one day like this and it happened to be last season. Here's to hoping 2009 - 2010 season has several of these in store for me

 

[Geoff]

My perfect day includes bottomless untracked powder, sunshine, and a helicopter. I've had some of those. Lift-serviced just doesn't compare unless you're doing the sidecountry. Heli-skiing, you're not in the frenzy since you're the only ones tracking it out.

With lift-serviced, untracked powder is very fleeting unless you're somewhere very remote. (Termas de Chillan, for example) I've done ski days at Snowbird with an instructor where we got to go up the tram an hour early and cut the tram line all day. Even with the LCC road closed until 11:00, you're bushwhacking at the far looker's right in the trees by 2:00 to find untracked snow. I have vivid memories of trading elbow shots with the powder Nazis. I actually enjoy powder days at places like Deer Valley better since you don't deal with those A-holes.

 

[dmc]

Ya know dmc, life is never gonna be the same for you after Kashmir! A trip of a lifetime; I just hope you don't end up viewing every powder day in a capitalist country as a letdown! I'm jealous, though I'm fortunate to have other non-powder TOAL's with great memories.

I'll find something as crazy or go back someday... I don't believe in trips of a lifetime... I just go...

And Kashmir is capitalist.. It's India... Kinda...

 

[ski220]

St. Valentines Day 2007 @ Stowe, or St. Patricks Day 2007 @ Stowe or that mid week 38" @ Mad River, or that 100" in Utah, or the days up on Teton Pass 2008, or Vail 1974 -75 or Whistler or Val d'Isere or Crestted Butte or ......... So many BIG powder days.

 

[bigbog]

..addendum...

Guess I forgot important stuff to keep crowd off the mountain:

...By some mysterious quirk of fate...all doors and windows to CVA bldgs have been frozen shut. Geography, Mathematics, English..and all foreign language classes to be continued non-stop today 6am-9pm. Yeah, that'd take care of the monsters...LOL.
$.01

 

[x10003q]

Any day I am skiing is the perfect ski day.

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

Any day I am skiing is the perfect ski day.

winner winner chicken dinner..