First Pow Experiences?

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CabbyArrant

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I lost my soft snow virginity two weeks ago. Despite eating shit repeatedly on narrow full camber park skis I am a changed man. Anybody have any good stories of their first pow experience? I just placed an order for a pair of sky 7 HD's for next time I head west
 
I remember my first experience was in 1996, I was 8 in the east coast. It snowed 20cm of humid snow. I remember crashing early in the day and hurting my leg.

Pow got easier as I grew older
 
Watching people see/ride natural snow(sometimes snow in general) in Africa was fucking awesome.

I was thinking about it this week and thanksgiving in Tahoe. A lot of people that see snow very rarely if ever up sledding on the hills along the roads. Idk got me kinda stoked on snow and winter to see it have such an impact on other people.

I mean fuck, obviously I'm down with the snow, but a lot of people are more about them warmer months. Seeing how special it was to everyone, the energy, was fucking awesome.

In Lesotho during a torch parade called ski burning, we got drunk, burned skis, and tried not to light each other on fire while summoning the snow gods. The times when it started snowing for the first time in weeks midway through, fucking magical. Even seeing snow all the time for most of my life it was great. Can't even imagine seeing it for the first time in that setting.

Also watching friends and coworkers ride up to waist deep pow in spots without ever really riding pow. Made for that super fun but also sometimes hilarious kind of riding seshes.
 
I skied pow for the first time in revelstoke.

Thought I'd ski it like a groomer. Leaned forward, sharp turn, double eject.

I'm better now tho
 
Skied pow for the first time under the chairlift a few years back in my uniform, fo sho ejected..... needless to say I owed patrol a few beers
 
Always get gassed so fast while skiing powder. I think it's because I've never really skied a pair of super fat powder sticks and I have to lean back a bunch.

Got a pair of 184 Deathwishes this year though! Excited to give them a go in some deep stuff when I go out to Utah later this year

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13979968:ButteredToast. said:
Always get gassed so fast while skiing powder. I think it's because I've never really skied a pair of super fat powder sticks and I have to lean back a bunch.

Got a pair of 184 Deathwishes this year though! Excited to give them a go in some deep stuff when I go out to Utah later this year

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Those are dope
 
13980332:ButteredToast. said:
Thanks! I love em. 112 underfoot and 25m turning radius. They like to go fast as hell.
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I have a set of the 190's. They feel like the edges are super detuned, even though they aren't. Do you get that sensation or nah?

Also, if you think those feel like they like to go fast, you should try the Bibbys. They make the Deathwishes feel like kids toys.

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13980371:TubeBro said:
I have a set of the 190's. They feel like the edges are super detuned, even though they aren't. Do you get that sensation or nah?

Also, if you think those feel like they like to go fast, you should try the Bibbys. They make the Deathwishes feel like kids toys.

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Can't say I've felt that detuned sensation. I actually feel like they hold an edge on ice fairly well. Haven't had any true boilerplate icy days to fully test yet though, so maybe when the snow gets hard as shit in Feb I'll feel differently. The only weird sensation I've felt is "why the hell won't these turn?" while still getting used to the big radius.
 
Solitude, early 2000s. There was 3 feet of snow overnight and I was 60 lbs 4.5 feet tall. I got skied into a mound of powder and got stuck in snow up to my neck. Dad had to come pull me out by my scruff. Love you dad
 
Very first day of ever skiing Whistler saw virgin powder behind the Harmony chairlift in Whistler, looked at the mountain layout on the map, and thought how bad can it be? (Skiing fallline under harmony chair takes you pretty far out of resort boundaries into a valley known as singings pass), I'd made the foregone conclusion that there must be a valley trail at the bottom *lucky guess) After getting a few minutes of good pow turns, it plateaued, and I tried trending back towards the resort on skiers 45 angle towards the boundary, after about 2 hours of trekking through waist deep powder I found the fall line again, and got sucked down into some avy shoot fingers which turned about to be a stellar run. No beacon, nobody knew where I was, darkness late afternoon in January setting in) I came out the shoot at the bottom, and followed the valley trail back to the resort.

I showed up at my parents hotel around 6pm I was 18. Good times, learned a few things in the process. Young & Dumb. Over the years I'd revisit different fingers. The first day I skied them they were pretty loaded, and I got away with it.
 
13980628:Craigskis said:
Very first day of ever skiing Whistler saw virgin powder behind the Harmony chairlift in Whistler, looked at the mountain layout on the map, and thought how bad can it be? (Skiing fallline under harmony chair takes you pretty far out of resort boundaries into a valley known as singings pass), I'd made the foregone conclusion that there must be a valley trail at the bottom *lucky guess) After getting a few minutes of good pow turns, it plateaued, and I tried trending back towards the resort on skiers 45 angle towards the boundary, after about 2 hours of trekking through waist deep powder I found the fall line again, and got sucked down into some avy shoot fingers which turned about to be a stellar run. No beacon, nobody knew where I was, darkness late afternoon in January setting in) I came out the shoot at the bottom, and followed the valley trail back to the resort.

I showed up at my parents hotel around 6pm I was 18. Good times, learned a few things in the process. Young & Dumb. Over the years I'd revisit different fingers. The first day I skied them they were pretty loaded, and I got away with it.
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Hol’ up.

you saying you went OB at the bottom of harmony and then followed Fitzsimmons creek back home?

bc lmao that sounds terrible and exhausting
 
Yeah Pretty much,

You can dump in higher up going straight in off Burnt stew Trail for a mediocre blue glade with a sustained pitch. Going in right behind the lift might not be so bad if you trended fallline into the valley it would all depend on which chute you end on & how gnar it gets. The best access point on the right days is around green acres where the old whistler park used to come out.

Rule of thumb if it's dry powder in the valley you can get away with hotlapping these lines, if it starts snowballing it might be a cement mixer of death kind of day.
 
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