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Top 15 Resorts With the Best Chance of Catching a Powder Day in North America

Let’s be real: for many serious skiers and snowboarders, the sport is all about riding powder. Whenever the conditions are lining up with a winter weather advisory, it’s time to call in sick or do whatever you can to make it to the mountain. Powder days are sacred and should not be wasted. The definition of a powder day is when the […]

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Avatar photo Brent Thomas | December 28, 2024
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Top 9 Snowiest Ski Resorts in North America [Updated 2024]

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All data was pulled from each resort’s website as of March 2024. It’s no secret that the West is the snowiest region in North America.  Cold fronts come down from the Gulf of Alaska, hit our North-South oriented mountain ranges, and orographic lifting does the rest.  There are 10 ski resorts in the west that average over 500” of snow. […]

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Liam Abbott | March 25, 2024
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Big Snow Dump for Otago Region, New Zealand

  A big storm is arriving in the Otago Region on the evening of July 31, 2023, and hanging around until Wednesday August 2, 2023. The forecasts are showing heavy precipitation and lots of atmospheric pressure across the region with a smaller amount making its way up to the Canterbury region.     Snowforecast.com is predicting a large amount of snow […]

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Nathaniel Lewis | July 31, 2023
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The Best Powder Days on the Ikon Pass

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[Sponsored by Ikon Pass] Serious skiers and riders know the feeling—dropping down into a bottomless supply of pillow-soft powder. Floating over a dreamy field of white for as far as the eye can see. First tracks on deep freshies is a euphoric experience and one that causes powder hounds to crave their next fix. While great snow can happen anywhere, […]

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Avatar photo SnowBrains | March 7, 2019
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February 2019 Makes Top 5 Snowiest Months in Mammoth Mountain, CA History

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[Sponsored by Mammoth Mountain] Mammoth Mountain, California is known for its mega storms and deep snowpack. Mammoth often sees record-breaking snowfall and is no stranger to skiing on the Fourth of July. It’s no surprise the resort currently has the deepest snowpack in the country and most season snowfall to date (606″ total snowfall at the summit and 405″ at […]

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Katy Shipley | March 6, 2019
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33 Powder Days in a Row in Patagonia…

33 powder days in a row… From August 7th to September 8th 2017, we saw 33 powder days in a row in and around Cerro Catedral ski resort in Bariloche, Argentina.  This happens to be the exact window we recommend to people to scoring powder in South America. It was one of the best stretches of powder skiing of my […]

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Miles Clark | September 15, 2017
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Crystal Moutain, WA Conditions Report: The Powder Days Just Won’t Stop

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  A super fun week of rallying perfect cold groomers and hitting stashes of protected deep powder through the trees. My legs just aren’t getting a break! With Chair 6 running and Northway back open there was no shortage of places to go for long steep runs of recirculated light snow. Snow sharks are still lurking out there as the light […]

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Reid Pitman | December 13, 2016
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