 Poster: A snowHead
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How deep was the deepest powder you ever skied?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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I'm never sure when deep snow becomes powder in the truest sense. I'd hazard at thigh-deep perhaps. Certainly knee deep anyway.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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I've skied powder that seems bottomless - no idea how you'd measure the actual depth.
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>70cms (apprantly), but sank no deeper than much over the knee
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I once skied powder in Col de Tende that was so deep you couldn't feel the base and you had to sort of swim turn in it. I fell, lost a ski and found it came up to my waist! Very bizarre experience for european skiers!!
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I've done the men's downhill at Lake Louise with powder up to my thighs... granted I am only 5'4"! 
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What does it matter? These days, on fat skis, you'll only ever notice the top 20cm or so.
Just for the record, I had a couple of pitches in Les Gets last year (March I think) where it was about 70-80cm or so (measured with ski pole). The wind had just deposited it quite nicely... I don't think I've skied anything any deeper than that (shame). And yes, I would hav remembered!
conor, I wasn't aware depth had any part in the definition of "powder"?
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St Anton Jan 2005, it was minus 25 Deg C the powder was very light (Champagne Powder).
Sank down to between waist and chest.
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Whistler, Ealry march 2006 - pushed my 115cm ski pole all the way into the snow. Deepest I ever felt it was mid thigh, descending the bowl to skiiers right of Flute Nose, but I couldn;t feel the bottom so it may have been deeper.
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Thigh high powder on steep pitches takes some nerve when you sink into it. Only two examples; in LP last year and skiing down into Cervinia from Zermatt into a bowl which I've never found again. And I've been in knee high cement which you could see melting... Impossible to ski that IMV
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Wear The Fox Hat, That would be Snowbird 2006 then 
Not really their usual extra fine powder, so I'm told, but it was deep and powdery in my opinion.
Those poles are 130's (cut down a little) and they didn't touch the bottom even when I pushed the handles below the level of the snow. The day before spyderjon and I were having swimming lessons in Mineral Basin after we fell off our skis very close to each other. We were easily waist deep, it took me ages to reach my ski which was only about six feet above me.
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You know it makes sense.
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If you fall how do you stand up?. How do you put a ski back on?
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FTS, with extreme difficulty...unless you can find a passing snowman to stand on! If the ski comes off (and don't have a tracer on it), you could be there for hours trying to find it.
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Poster: A snowHead
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Frosty the Snowman, with difficulty, some bindings are better than others when clipping back up after a fall in powder, IMO Looks are the easiest.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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David@traxvax, I shalln't venture into deep as I am not blessed with good Looks.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Frosty the Snowman, get yourself some Rossis then - for people without Looks, but all the same!
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| Frosty the Snowman wrote: |
| If you fall how do you stand up?. How do you put a ski back on? |
Cross your ski poles and hold them with one hand where they cross in the centre. Use the poles as a base to push yourself up - it works a lot better than you would think.
Put the tail of the ski in the snow so the the ski is ca half way between 45 Deg & vertical. Make sure your bindings and boots are as free from snow as possible. Put your toe in the binding toe piece then push your heel sharply into the heel piece of the binding. If you are successful the boot will click into the binding.
Repeat with other boot & ski.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Frosty the Snowman, much better to have good luck than Looks!
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OK here is another question: What size fats would I need to float in powder (125kg Butt Naked)
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Frosty the Snowman, depends on how fast you're going to be moving, if you go faster you float more.
If you're a tinner like me you'll be going fairly slowly, so need a bit of girth. I'm 85kg and have gone for 89mm after being advised not to go fatter for my first fat ski. I'd guess a wee bit fatter for you, but a fair bit longer too. I'm on 178cm.
Don't go bollock naked either, the snow rolls up yer leg a bit you know. 
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marc gledhill, Would 3 skis help? 
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Frosty the Snowman, the only answer in a snowboard......on each foot
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Elizabeth B, K2 Pontoons are pretty close to snowboards, only with a bit of shape to them...
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You know it makes sense.
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DB, I know it's the correct way to do it, but I was having a right old time getting it to work earlier this year.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Frosty the Snowman,
Sounds like you fancy it then..have to see if we can get you some at the EOSB.
P.S don't confuse Powder with Off-piste. IMO a snowplough will get you through powder sometimes, but off-piste can be any kind of junk..and a whole different ball game. I know plenty of good skiers who don't go anywhere near that sort of stuff...!!
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Poster: A snowHead
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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"conor, I wasn't aware depth had any part in the definition of "powder"?"
David Murdoch, bad wording on my part  I wa strying to say that I have skied deep snow that I have referred to as powder, but in retrospect was literally deep snow. When I think of powder, I think of extremely light and dry snow that is so easy to turn in you don't need to worry about keeping the skis afloat. But that's just me.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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conor, I agree - the deepest snow i have skied certainly wasn't powder - fresh but heavy snow which was a55 deep at the top of the Grands Montets. You could point your skis straight down the fall line on a pitch next to the Point de Vue run (a reasonably steep black run for those who don't know it) and not start moving unless you jumped forward a few times. I have also found myself that deep in rotten snow, which was extremely unpleasant. Almost impossible to ski, and I did not want to be there at all because it felt like it could slide 
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Thigh deep (80cm ish) & light in Engelberg last year and again in certain spots Tahoe this year.
In slightly heavier snow I have barely made it down a US alleged single black diamond straightlining.
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