How do you define a powder day?

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!

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

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.

Powder?


Powder?

There’s powder and then there’s POWDER!

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

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

The turns were quiet that day

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

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.

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?

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