Have you ever lost a ski in powder??

One time that happened to me. It was funny looking back on it. I was sitting there digging in the powder with my friend for about 45 mins, and hte funny thing is there wasn't even a lot of powder. Well anyways, some random lady comes up and mentions something about the physics of a ski in powder, puts her hand like 10 feet away from where i crashed, and about a minute later she found my ski. It traveled about 10 feet under the snow without coming to the surface, and she found it in a minute. Crazy shit
 
my dad almost did back in the day, he told me in happened somewhere in colorado, waist high powder, i wish i could expernce atleast knee high powder!
 
I was skiing a bowl at night at Stevens Pass after a huge snowfall, which was then followed by below 10 degree temps and huge gusts of wind. The top layer of the pow pretty much had frozen over, and was crusty as hell. As long as you stayed on top or under it, it was great skiing.

Anyways, I'm riding 1080's, so I'm mostly punching through it. I aired off of a small windlip, and when I came back down through the layer, my right ski punched through first, throwing me off balance. I tumbled for about 30 feet with one ski. Looking back up, I saw the holes of my impact being filled in with snowy gusts of wind.

Hiking back up deep snow with a crusty layer on top is god awful, but I finally made it back up. Ski is nowhere. Searching around, I find that theres a lot of light powder filling the hole where I landed, from all the gusts of snow. I feel around, and nothing. After 5 minutes of searching, I feel a line of snow that's lighter than the rest. I follow it with my hands blindly, and after two feet of this 'tube' i hit the tail of my ski. The ski had somehow planed under the snow for a good 5 feet, bringing it to rest completely out of my tracks by a foot, covered by untouched snow. Soooooo lucky...

I moved to skiing trees for the rest of the night after that.
 
this season some kid was looking under the chairlift for his ski for like 10 runs. there was ski patrol and everything with like a 50 foot long pole.

there wasn't even powder...it was just old untouched stuff
 
my dad almost lost his once.. but it was like 7 inches of new snow and about 14 inches of man made snow hahahaah (western n.y) he looked for awhile and finally found it
 
i lost one in Ut on a pow day. i don't even remember why i fell, it wasn't anything rediculous. but i couldn't find it for like 20 min. it almost sucked really bad
 
i tragically lost my 06 k2 public enemy like the 7th time i used them at mammoth on a 4 ft heavy deep powder day...

searched for two hours but it was no use after tomahawking and coming up and realizing you have a search diameter of like 100 ft....

ski patrol didnt find it when it melted and thus i had to use my shit skis for the rest of the year, and buy new pubs this year.
 
I lost one in Alta on a powder day. Got fearful that someone was going to come over the same lip and stomp me so I skied down on one ski - patrol radioed up and they found it with a metal detector in just a few minutes.
 
yea that happened a couple years ago, had to wait until spring when the snow melted to get it back
 
i have never been in powder that is deeper than my ski.... actually that is a lie. last season we had an epic pow day where we got a record crushing dump of almost 10, yes 10, whole cm. astonishing i know.
 
i lost a ski in pow once was searching for like an hour couldnt find it so rode my big brothers skis for the rest of the season, at the end of the season the snow melted and found it again :)
 
I was skiing burke, VT which is an insane mountain and we had just got like 6 inches of fresh. we were on lews leap and were in the woods next to the trail. I spot this small ( prob 6-7 ft. ) cliff where if you didnt land just right you would hit a tree. So my friend hits it and double ejects and drills the tree but his ski is lost in lilke the softest pow. We found one but It took like 45 minute to find the other using the pole technique. where you make a grid with your pole.
 
yep...ive done it twice...luckily the first time was with a rental ski, but i ended up finding it anyway...but the second time was another story...shit!
 
my friends bro did in on a bc jump we built like first hit. we had to track out the entire landing trying to find it and never did. such a waste
 
I lost my ski for awhile under Jersey Cream in Whistler. I dropped a small cliff about 2/3rds of the way down and my ski got caught in the pow. I climbed up to look for it and couldn't find it. 5 of my friends and I spent 45 minutes looking for it with no luck. This was during the spring of 2005 when they got the snowfall record so it was deep all the time. So when I went up a week later with a metal detector (took me that long to rent one) it took us another 30 minutes to finally find it. It was buried at least 4 feet down. I got lucky.
 
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