I was thinking that the snow seemed a little heavy, what once upon a time I would have called “heavy powder” as opposed to “fluffy powder”. In that “once upon a time” I landed in about 6 feet of fluffy powder, totally different scenario, trails hadn’t been groomed and this was in the trees about a dozen feet off the trail; but it took me…
I was thinking that the snow seemed a little heavy, what once upon a time I would have called “heavy powder” as opposed to “fluffy powder”. In that “once upon a time” I landed in about 6 feet of fluffy powder, totally different scenario, trails hadn’t been groomed and this was in the trees about a dozen feet off the trail; but it took me only a minute to get back up - regular snow skiing...the rescued guy appeared to be really packed in there. Definitely a miracle that the rescuer was prepared and strong, and even saw the guy! Wow.
Yeah, real powder is like skiing on a cloud. You can't even feel your skis making any contact. Makes you feel like you are skiing in slow motion even though you are moving down the mountain quite rapidly.
If only I had ever had the courage to point my skis downhill, I bet I would have more fully appreciated that light powder. I loved what I experienced, though, when the mountain I skied in south-central BC was populated with one t-bar (or something like that, definitely no chair lift), and we skied all day with no lines for about $6/day. Lots of really good times. Lucky me.
I was thinking that the snow seemed a little heavy, what once upon a time I would have called “heavy powder” as opposed to “fluffy powder”. In that “once upon a time” I landed in about 6 feet of fluffy powder, totally different scenario, trails hadn’t been groomed and this was in the trees about a dozen feet off the trail; but it took me only a minute to get back up - regular snow skiing...the rescued guy appeared to be really packed in there. Definitely a miracle that the rescuer was prepared and strong, and even saw the guy! Wow.
Yeah, real powder is like skiing on a cloud. You can't even feel your skis making any contact. Makes you feel like you are skiing in slow motion even though you are moving down the mountain quite rapidly.
If only I had ever had the courage to point my skis downhill, I bet I would have more fully appreciated that light powder. I loved what I experienced, though, when the mountain I skied in south-central BC was populated with one t-bar (or something like that, definitely no chair lift), and we skied all day with no lines for about $6/day. Lots of really good times. Lucky me.