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Harvey

Dec 24, 2019; 10:56pm

How do you define a powder day?

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This post was updated on Dec 25, 2019; 2:39am.

I skied Greek Peak on Sunday and we schralped untracked snow most of the day, until we quit around 2pm.

Some was foofy, later in the day in the sun it was a bit thick but still very fun.

I didn't give the post a "powder" tag but Im not sure why.

Do you use powder interchangeably with untracked crust free snow or do you have a higher standard?

How do you define pow?

Probably an EC question, but all answers welcome!

"You just need to go at that shit wide open, hang on, and own it." —Camp

Saratogahalfday

Dec 24, 2019; 11:03pm

Re: How do you define a powder day?

Anything over 6 inches, not too heavy, at a mountain (ala Magic) that won't groom most it.

Brownski

Dec 25, 2019; 2:05am

Re: How do you define a powder day?

Saratogahalfday wrote

Anything over 6 inches, not too heavy, at a mountain (ala Magic) that won't groom most it.

That’s about right I think. Needs to be light enough that you sink a little when you slow down too much.

"You want your skis? Go get 'em!" -W. Miller

Harvey

Dec 25, 2019; 2:38am

Re: How do you define a powder day?

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Powder?

"You just need to go at that shit wide open, hang on, and own it." —Camp

raisingarizona

Dec 25, 2019; 3:37am

Re: How do you define a powder day?

There’s powder and then there’s POWDER!

Brownski

Dec 25, 2019; 4:38am

Re: How do you define a powder day?

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It looks nice. If you tell me it’s powdery I’ll believe you... Did it make noises when you turned?

"You want your skis? Go get 'em!" -W. Miller

campgottagopee

Dec 25, 2019; 10:43am

Re: How do you define a powder day?

If it looks like powder and tastes like powder most likely it's powder.

Joneski73

Dec 25, 2019; 10:59am

Re: How do you define a powder day?

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The turns were quiet that day

Ski the snow on the ground, not the date on the calendar. - Glenn Plake

2000yearoldskier

Dec 25, 2019; 2:18pm

Re: How do you define a powder day?

Like Judge Potter Stuart " I may not be able to describe it . but I know it when I ski it.

Peter Minde

Dec 25, 2019; 2:34pm

Re: How do you define a powder day?

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campgottagopee wrote

If it looks like powder and tastes like powder most likely it's powder.

1. What Camp said.

2. For me, powder is fresh corduroy and bombproof classic tracks. So easy to kick, you feel like a superhero. Fresh pow usually too soft to skate on.

-Peter Minde
http://www.oxygenfedsport.com

Harvey

Dec 25, 2019; 4:20pm

Re: How do you define a powder day?

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Harvey wrote

Powder?

Powder?

I realize this is a pretty standard ski forum post.

Here's how I got on to it. Both of the pics above were taken on the same day at Greek Peak, on Sunday. IMO no way is the top shot pow, really fun snow, but not pow. Also IMO the second shot is pow.

Every front page powder day post gets this tag:

https://nyskiblog.com/blog/powder/

I couldn't decide, was Sunday a powder day or not?

"You just need to go at that shit wide open, hang on, and own it." —Camp

Brownski

Dec 25, 2019; 6:22pm

Re: How do you define a powder day?

It’s fungible. I would expect mockery if you put that on certain other forums and claimed it was a POW day but there’s really no firm standard. If you were mostly floating and there was no scraping sound when you turned, that sounds like powder even if it was shallow

"You want your skis? Go get 'em!" -W. Miller