There isn't an answer for sloppy seconds where someone has already put in the traverse/ outtrack are sometimes better
They're when you ski under the snowgun blast.
With those Navigator 85’s on, this was you? -I did break trail in 3 feet of snow on a horizontal/slightly uphill traverse for about a hundred feet to get 2 good turns in an untracked nook that I saw.
Pretty much.With those Navigator 85’s on, this was you? -
....I’m not sure why “No friends on a powder day” is so accepted, and then people complain about how uncivilized everyone acts.
Powder doesn’t equal license to be an Ahole. ....
I love powder but I don't chase it. I ski where I ski and when I ski and if I'm lucky enough to have the powder be there then excellent.
But the best days are the unexpected ones, when they arrive with no advance warning or when it suddenly starts dumping while I'm there.
The only other approach that works well here in the east is to drive up to a smaller area WHILE it is snowing. Folks will be hunkering down, buying out bread and milk at the supermarkets, and generally waiting for bad weather to end. If you don't mind driving in snowstorms, you can sometimes get epic, deserted days.