Powder skiing is best described in superlatives. Words like deepest, lightest, fluffiest, or perhaps just the simplest descriptor best get thrown around like dice at a craps table. It's a testament to ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. They might not admit it, but there's no denying that skiers were way gnarlier back in the '70s and '80s, especially when it came ...

Sometimes, even proficient powder skiers have trouble when the snow piles up higher than 10-12 inches, or when it is heavier than Vail’s typical champagne fluff.This is partly due to equipment. Those ...

POWDER, as its name implies, is about skiing, hence the catchphrase: The Skier’s Magazine. That distinction was less concrete and more nominal in the past, though. The diversions from skiing range ...

A skier flies through the fresh powder on Copper Mountain's Endeavor run Tuesday, Dec. 23, 2014. The Summit County resort had 12 inches new snow Tuesday morning and 33 inches over the past three days.