What’s the deepest powder you’ve skied in

MitchWAndrew

MitchWAndrew

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i skied Alta last year and got a 28-30 inch powder day and man it was so much powder I didn’t know what to do and it just kept dumping throughout the day I never touched anything but snow that day what’s your best powder day you have skied
 
13923692:The.Fish said:
Man i thought a 9 inch day was fun...
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I actually prefer a 10-15 inch day because when your so deep you can hardly move it gets super tiring where as in a smaller powder day your free to move and blow powder and go fast
 
2 years ago in Japan at Hakuba47 dumped like 3 feet and it honestly felt like a dream, waist deep and I'm sure it got even deeper cause it snowed all day but I was absolutely beat by like 1:00 if not earlier
 
I remember being around 14 and skiing breck thinking I was the sickest on the mtn with my soul 7s and it snowed 24" and that was the day I think I began to love skiing. Fun stuff haha
 
Snowbird this year. Went to bed at 11, no snow yet. Wake at 5:45, its snowed 18 inches. Check again when I'm leaving my house with the gf at the time. It has now snowed 22 inches as of 6:23. Get to canyon mouth, wait from 7 to 8 and another 3 inches accumulates on the truck in front of us. Driving up little cottonwood that day was scary as fuck because there was a good 4-6 inches of snow on the road and it was single lane going up in some places. Saw cars sliding off left and right. Make it to snowbird at 8:55, expecting massive lines. The parking lot is fucking empty. Girlfriend wasn't a great skier at that point and wants to go into the lodge to put on gear and hand warmers.

Take a lap on gadzoom and ski the trees under the lift in waist deep pow, I'm 6'5 by the way, so this was truly remarkable. Ski some with gf. We're going in for lunch soon and I see patrol about to open tigertail. Know exactly where I'm headed and tell gf I'll meet her at mid gad. Traverse out where no one has been before but the best kept secret of snowbird awaits, pearly gates. Vid related. I am the first tracks on this thing in the lightest fluffiest powder I've ever skied. It's as steep as the cirque and beautiful fall line. Every turn is full shackville and just coming out of my turns I'm up to my chest because of the steepness. Have to breath whenever I'm out of the white room and hold my breath otherwise. It's just pure utter powder flying ecstasy. Get to the bottom, quads are burning, completely covered in snow in all my exposed orifices. Quite possibly was the best run of my life, and absolutely of the season. Maybe someday I'll get one better, but that run was skiing I had only dreamed of back east. Thank god I live here now.

 
About 3 feet at Lookout Pass on the the MT/ID border a year and a half ago. It wasn't that steep of a mountain but there were all these random untouched patches in plain sight that were heaven to go carve and slash around in.
 
26 inches at alta last april. I was on a pair of rental soul 7's because i sold my kartels before this trip and i absolutely could not ski it. Deepest snow ive ever skied + the steepest mountain i've ever skied did not mix well for the first time. I think i took 4 runs that day before altitude sickness set in. I felt like the most worthless excuse of a skier. But being the good friend i am i let my friends i was with enjoy their day while i chugged water in the lodge trying to feel normal again. Powder skiing is not as easy as it looks.
 
topic:MitchWAndrew said:
i skied Alta last year and got a 28-30 inch powder day and man it was so much powder I didn’t know what to do and it just kept dumping throughout the day I never touched anything but snow that day what’s your best powder day you have skied
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Waist/Chest deep. Skipped school and it was just dumping!! Also all the snow was blowing over the cornace so each run where you skied was just getting refilled each time. Next day was kinda a bummer cuz the snow got kinda dense :((
 
April 3,2010. Aspen highlands.

Snowed like 18” by sunset day before and was 30” by morning and still snowing all day.

So deep.
 
No idea how deep it was, but deeper than anything i've been in before. Gonna say somewhere between 2-3 feet at whitefish this season
 
When I was like 14, Bridger Bowl got 100" in 3 days, mountain opened up 2 days after the storm, the snow was very, very deep. Too deep actually. After the first 500ft of vert or so, you had to start making your way to the main track, because you'd get stuck in the snow going down hill, no joke. I got stuck a few times (riding 1080s lmao) and was up to my shoulders, it was terrifying at first. Even skiing that much snow with pow ski and much more experience (i was fucking 14) would still be pretty difficult and not as good as say waist deep, which is ideal depth IMO.
 
There is no such thing as too deep, only too flat

13924933:eheath said:
When I was like 14, Bridger Bowl got 100" in 3 days, mountain opened up 2 days after the storm, the snow was very, very deep. Too deep actually. After the first 500ft of vert or so, you had to start making your way to the main track, because you'd get stuck in the snow going down hill, no joke. I got stuck a few times (riding 1080s lmao) and was up to my shoulders, it was terrifying at first. Even skiing that much snow with pow ski and much more experience (i was fucking 14) would still be pretty difficult and not as good as say waist deep, which is ideal depth IMO.
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6.5 feet in to days.

I had a blower 3.5 to 4' day of better snow though that might as well have been bottomless. No crowds, blower just cranking over your head bouncing down the slope.
 
Dec 29, 2014, at Snowbird on the far end of the Cirque, I always forget the name of the shot. It was like a 35"-40" day in some spots. Balls-deep turns all the way down and was in complete shock with my good buddy at the bottom of our run. Will never forget the looks on our faces, lol. We've been living in Utah almost our whole lives and never experienced skiing like that on the backside of the range in Park City. Was enough to convert us to cottonwood canyon skier tribe. That whole spring was nutty, too. Every pow day in the spring was country club riding. Creamy turns all for yourself.

Our above-average year of 2016/17 was stupid good, and there were so many good days that its overwhleming and hard to narrow down the best ones. Deepest days were a slack-country day at the canyons with friends after a huge system, and then in March when I fucked up stuff with a girl I was dating. A nice deep late-march day and skied that same run off of the cirque. Very deep and therapuetic.
 
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