Two Days at Powder Mountain
Photos Andrew Miller
Video Mark Dangler
Day One: Pow Wow at Pow MowWords Andrew Miller
Powder Mountain…. Where to start… Well Utah has been getting totally pounded on resulting in some of the best conditions all season. After having five or six straight epic pow days in a row the storming let up for a bit. I figured it would be the best time to rally up some troops after the next storm and head up one hour north of Salt Lake to the infamous Powder Mountain in quest of all the stories I had heard to be true.
The Rossi entourage were the first to come to mind since these dudes all have the right powder over urban mindset that so often confuses so many Salt Lake shredders. Pouch sealed the deal with tickets and a condo providing Dark Mangler and myself two days two capture as much pow and action as we could handle as well as for the crew to ride.
Day one started grey and early as we all meet up in the parking lot excited as Pow Mow had been closed the day before not to mention over two plus feet had fallen in the past two days. It was going to be light, deep and uncrowned and I thought to myself there is no better crew to be with on a day like this. The troop consisted of Rossi Tm Pouch, Neil Provo and his brother Ian. Nick Russell, Zach Seibert and last but no Lil-est Alex Sherman. That is a pretty good start…. Might as well let the photos take over and finish the story.
- Neil Provo
- Zach Seibert
- Nick Russell
- Ian Provo
- Lil-est aka Alex Sherman
- Pouch - Rossi TM
- Paradise... nothing short of the name.
- Pouch punching in for the morning.
- Neil Provo Barackin a switch frontside poper
- Seibert sending it off the first zone off the day
- Scoping lines for next run.
- Nick getting Barak'd to max sending it past the last pillow.
- That set the tone for the day!
- Lil-est smoking a few pow nugglets.
- Neil's bro Ian found some of the best lines both days. Here boosting a pillow popper
- Yea it was powy
- Neil suffered from alittle upside down syndrome. I managed to capture one of his episodes.
- This photos doesn't need a caption. Nicks face says it all.
- Powder Country time.
- The pack heading for some fresh meat.
- Pouch still on the clock.
- Nick and Seibert with POW off
- Nothing better than riding in the trees with your homies.
- Seibert dick deep in the fluff.
- Cat boarding was put on hold for today so we decided to hike up there anyways.
- Russell Crowe reaping the benefits of a five minute hip right off the cat track.
- Sherminator pulling through right as the sun was peaking through clouds.
- This was the view directly to the right of the photo above. Amazing view of the great Salt Lake, Ogden and an alien teliport on the right.
- 6:00pm Rossi crew still stoked!
- Unwiding after a long day. Thanks again to Pouch for TM'ing the fuck out of the Lasagna and salad.
- This was the view from our pad. We wanted to go back out but had no energy left to shred.
Day Two: Bright and Bluebird
Words Mark Dangler
It’s pretty damn easy to get out the door and ride when you are steps away from the mountain and this is good because had it been much harder work we might have been delayed seeing as how tired everyone was from our 9am-6pm board-a-thon the day prior. We woke up on day two and walked out to a bluebird day. If yesterday was as good as it was, we couldn’t even start to fathom what today might hold.
Back off of Paradise Lift and Powder Country there were a few zones we thought would still be good in the morning. Well, it turns out there were many good zones still left even on day two. It seems for some reason people at Powder Mountain don’t know you can go off the few groomed runs. Ehh, well, I mean…that’s right, you can’t! So for all of you people at powder mountain thinking about venturing off of that courderoy, stay on the groomed runs because boarding powder is just no fun, especially getting fresh turns two days after a storm!
Really though, this seems to be the way things work at Pow Mow, there is plenty of untracked. So after getting some great snow off of the lifts we headed up to Lightning Ridge for a few runs of cat boarding. While the sun had baked out some of the snow by the later portion of the afternoon it was mostly the same story in these spots of the mountain; Lots of powder left. At least we all know now, Powder Mountain isn’t practicing false advertising with their namesake.
- Rise and Shine Pow Mow.
- Very curcial team safelty meeting before the day's activies begin.
- Nothing like walking out the door.. steps away from the mountain.
- Paradise day two. Still very fresh as you can see.
- No better way to start your day off than a nice run down Powder Country.
- POV of Nick with a slow wide turn.
- You can pretty much shred everything you can see on the drive up to the mountain. This shuttle rolls by the road stop every 15min to take you back to the resort.
- After that good of a warm up it was a unanimous decision to head over to Lighting Ridge.
- Russell testing out the new Rossi J dub magna traction stick.
- Cat boarding time.
- $12.00 dollar cat rides... how can you say no?
- Powder mountain has a very interesting layout. Lightning Ridge takes you to the highest terrain on the whole mountain.
- On such an epic day like this there was a bit of a wait. Watching as the Cat takes a load up.
- Just enough time to catch a power nap. Still exhausted from the day before.
- Loading er up
- Loading er in
- Let the ride begin.
- Neil in deep thought of his next line.
- Lil-est unloading
- If you live in Utah I highly suggest come and trying the Pow Mow cat skiing for yourself. Guarantee you will not be disappointed.
- Drop zone. James peak in the background.
- The crew scoping what lines to hit first.
- Neil, Pouch and Seibert ready to drop.
- Seibert dipping into a fresh little chute.
- Neil saw this after he dropped and hiked back up to send this nose.
- Target located. Pouch pointing his line out.
- Cha brah I heard it was doulbe over head at Pow Mow today. Pouch getting barreled.
- Seibert ollie to fresh.
- Lil-est hucking the dumpa.
- Nick releasing some energy.
- A little perspective shot on the zone we just rode down.
- If two full days were enough the guys still have engery for a little mini shred to end it all.
- World class shapers perfecting the master piece.
- Nick training for next years Artic Challenge.
- Lil-est blocking it.
- Russell taking you out with a soggy lip stiff arm. Now go watch the video!!