snowburn Posted January 28, 2023 Report Share Posted January 28, 2023 First day for this season this year was at a little gem of a mountain Lost Trail MT. Second day opener with 14" fresh on a untouched run with a base of 41". So deep, nose of pow board got buried and I went arse over tea kettle. Took me 10 minutes to pack enough snow under my hands and board to get stood up again. Skier buddy 20 yards from me did the same thing. A lot of work but so much fun. Today at Bridger Bowl we had 18" of pow with 22" on the ridge with more tonight. What a day! What's your deepest powder day? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jcar Posted January 28, 2023 Report Share Posted January 28, 2023 (edited) Thigh deep pow at the first Montucky Clear Cut at Turner Mtn. It was nuts! First time riding that type of snow and by far the deepest. Edited January 28, 2023 by Jcar 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowburn Posted January 28, 2023 Author Report Share Posted January 28, 2023 14 minutes ago, Jcar said: Thigh deep pow at the first Montucky Clear Cut at Turner Mtn. It was nuts! First time riding that type of snow and by far the deepest. was it the infamous year 2018? I heard it was awesome! I would love to ride that fall line mtn. with deep pow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Odd Job Posted January 28, 2023 Report Share Posted January 28, 2023 Wolf Creek 2022. 2 days of near waist or waist high refills; even right off the lift at 4pm. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowburn Posted January 28, 2023 Author Report Share Posted January 28, 2023 1 minute ago, Odd Job said: Wolf Creek 2022. 2 days of near waist or waist high refills; even right off the lift at 4pm. I remember one day a couple of years ago it snowed so hard by the time we got back to the top of the lift our tracks had filled in. Talk about endless powder runs! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inkaholic Posted January 28, 2023 Report Share Posted January 28, 2023 MCC 2019 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowburn Posted January 28, 2023 Author Report Share Posted January 28, 2023 2 minutes ago, inkaholic said: MCC 2019 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
big mario Posted January 28, 2023 Report Share Posted January 28, 2023 Hip deep mcc#1, one day at lovey in '07 or '08, I missed my turn for the lift I wanted, and came to a full stop. I pulled the release on my back foot, stepped down, and promptly sat on the tail of my board. Ended up having to lay on my stick and paddle out 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigwavedave Posted January 28, 2023 Report Share Posted January 28, 2023 ditto: MCC waist deep in the trees on the 2nd or 3rd day? Mid thigh high at Aspen once, a day before SES. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowburn Posted January 28, 2023 Author Report Share Posted January 28, 2023 gotta love that big pow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ibrussell Posted January 28, 2023 Report Share Posted January 28, 2023 Skied deeper( 30" of blower pow at Atla but it was so light I was hitting icy moguls under had to find what was groomed day before) But as it gets deeper you can't find anything steep enough. but MCC was best four days in a row 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowburn Posted January 28, 2023 Author Report Share Posted January 28, 2023 glad this snow was heavy. covered the hard icy pack Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
st_lupo Posted January 28, 2023 Report Share Posted January 28, 2023 Had one day at Loveland a looking time ago with nearly a meter of fresh snow (and no wind!). We wound up practicing flips into a big pile of floof, until it got packed down enough that we started getting bloody noses when we screwed up. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corey Posted January 28, 2023 Report Share Posted January 28, 2023 I had an epic day at Snowmass, maybe 2 days after SES 2017. Airport was shut down so I couldn't get home, so I went riding. Jim Callen showed me the secret spots and coached me into stuff I never thought I could do. Rode the poma lift at the top most of the day. When the liftie said last run I was genuinely shocked. I was having so much fun it felt like 12:30 or something. Then that first MCC. The legends are true. Someone said they got more powder than any heli trip they'd been on. Truly humbling riding with amazing riders that so freely shared tips to help this prairie guy learn more. I started riding pow with a tow rope behind a snowmobile in the late 80s. Very different dynamics, but some of the basics cross over. There's no need for speed control... You do what you gotta do when there aren't mountains where you live! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philw Posted January 28, 2023 Report Share Posted January 28, 2023 about 75cm overnight. It's unridable when you get that much though - you can't ride the steeper stuff as everything's sliding, and the flatter stuff... you can't penetrate. I have had many days following a skier-laid single-file track down the steepest safe thing... it isn't very much fun. You know you're in the good stuff when you have to time your breathing with the turns. My first ever heli trip in 1989 had that on the first run: I was screwed. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dredman Posted January 28, 2023 Report Share Posted January 28, 2023 2019 MCC Tuesday and Wednesday. 18-24 on Tuesday and 18-24 on Wednesday. Top to bottom fall line powder turns all day long, with the coolest people on the planet. Hoping for a repeat of that one of these years! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Kirk Posted January 28, 2023 Report Share Posted January 28, 2023 The year was 2002 and we got 58" overnight. The avy control was a huge task and in the end they couldn't open that day. The next night we got 10" on top of the 58" and they opened. You needed a big long stick and you needed to go as fast as possible to make sure you didn't bog on shallow slopes. It was fun but 18" is better than 60"+. dave 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b0ardski Posted January 28, 2023 Report Share Posted January 28, 2023 (edited) Inaugural MCC was epic. If it wasn't that steep the grocer would've bogged down and gotten stuck! photo via Softbootsurfer from the lift I have had deeper days at Alpental and Schwietzer (in previous decades) that were snorkel worthy, had to keep you mouth closed and poke your face out the snow wave coming of your chest to breathe and to see the next turn. The whiteroom is not a myth. Edited January 28, 2023 by b0ardski 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Stevens Posted January 28, 2023 Report Share Posted January 28, 2023 (edited) 2 hours ago, philw said: about 75cm overnight. It's unridable when you get that much though - you can't ride the steeper stuff as everything's sliding, and the flatter stuff... you can't penetrate. I have had many days following a skier-laid single-file track down the steepest safe thing... it isn't very much fun. You know you're in the good stuff when you have to time your breathing with the turns. My first ever heli trip in 1989 had that on the first run: I was screwed. This. Anything over 40 cms of (all but the lightest) snow and you have no power in turns, plus the steep terrain is a no-go. Edited January 28, 2023 by Rob Stevens Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barryj Posted January 28, 2023 Report Share Posted January 28, 2023 Plenty of calf deep days, numerous knee deep days, a handful of thigh deep days and only a couple of waist deep days and 1 Day Over My Head!....all here in Tahoe basin. I won't go if it's over knee deep any more! If you go down or run out of speed in the flats for any reason you are in for a serious workout....if not a life threatening experience! The Over My Head experience was earlier this season, night riding at Boreal after we had had 9ft of snow in 18 days. It was great waist deep riding ...until I decided to go up for one more last! run and I misread a contour in the night lights and actually just fell/sat back and totally submerged into the white room! I was in shock how far I submerged just by being tossed off to the side on a contour! I shot my hand straight up and barely could reach the surface. Thank god I could reach my TD3 SW SI release levers at the top of my boots! I'd still be there if I had to bend over and unstrap/unbuckle with traditional bindings! As I was not on the main runs and off on the fringe of the night lights And Riding Alone they wouldn't have found me until months later in the thaw of 2023! Needless to say I clawed/dug my way to the surface but it was bottomless. I had to hold on to my board like the edge of the pool and mantle up on top of it to get out. Then swim/paddle out surfboard style to get back to the tracked runs to get back up on the board..........all of that was/is a Herculean effort not to repeat! DEEP Pow lessons: You can't fall! Don't ride the pow alone!! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
softbootsurfer Posted January 28, 2023 Report Share Posted January 28, 2023 76 mt.Hayden Heli tour 125.00 3 runs then forest service shut it down 78 1st cat tour up at Lenado, almost taken out by Avalanche no tours after that! 82 1st Highlands bowl helicopter tour then Bowl opened to public All these were Bottomless Light Fluff on very steep pitches, nothing beats that plus over 50 years and countless Pow runs here on all 4 mountains That 1st MCC was special also and of course, The Avalanche that happened in the Bowl the day after that first Helicopter tour in 82, I was actually looking at my tracks from our house on Red Mt. at 7 in the morning, I watched this entire event go down and called Mt. Rescue, which saved Lous Life... https://www.wildsnow.com/avalanches/avalanche-highland-bowl-dawson-1982/ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keenan Posted January 28, 2023 Report Share Posted January 28, 2023 Washington state record: Most snow in 24 hours: 65″ at Crystal Mountain on 24 February 1994. It was too deep. That night it snowed another 18". We had to roll down the windows and climb out when we got there because the doors wouldn't budge. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dhamann Posted January 28, 2023 Report Share Posted January 28, 2023 7 hours ago, David Kirk said: The year was 2002 i was in the bozone from '01-'06 and i think it was the '02 year i remember choking in the whiteroom for the first time at BB. a snorkel for the cold smoke is real. pretty sure it was early in the season too and worried about hitting something below as it was waist deep and even deeper when you made a turn. literally could not see and difficult to get any speed. i concur the 18" vs 60". western challenges. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bentnail Posted January 30, 2023 Report Share Posted January 30, 2023 I had a 31 inch day yesterday at red lodge yesterday. As good as 2019 MCC. Cheers see y’all soon 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kneel Posted January 30, 2023 Report Share Posted January 30, 2023 MCC 1. Damn, that was stupid fun. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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