Nine Reasons Riding Powder Sucks
Cole Karow, somewhere at Lost Trail Powder Mountain in Montana.
First of all, sike! Riding powder does not suck at all. It’s pretty much the best way you could spend a day snowboarding or otherwise. But since we’re stuck on the snowless East Coast while our friends are gloating over getting shacked as fuck on social media, we need some reminders of why it’s not totally the end of the world to miss out. If you’re in a similar boat, read on for our list of the minor inconveniences and annoyances that come along with riding powder.
1. You could die. This is a very real factor in the powder game. Whether an avalanche or a tree well- low visibility, high stoke and variable conditions can have dire consequences. Be careful out there, friends.
2. Shoveling sucks. If the trails are buried that means your car is probably buried too. Even worse, you may have to dig yourself a path just to get to it. Fuck that noise.
3. It’s Exhausting. No matter what sweet pow board you’ve got or how good of shape you’re in, riding pow requires effort and strength. And how will you get anything else done in a day when you have exerted every last bit of energy lapping pillow lines!?
4. You have to get up early. If you want best stuff, you gotta get there when the lifts start to spin. We firmly believe getting up early should be reserved for farmers and school children, and is not part of any activity considered “fun.”
5. You may have to hike. Inevitably “the goods” are not lift accessed. And your friends will probably be like “oh come on, it’s not that far and it’ll be sick” and pretty soon you’ll be trudging through waist deep snow in search of some line you don’t even really care about riding. And then you’ll have even less energy to boot!
6. Aggro pow hounds. You know the guy. He has his schedule set so he can drop everything at the rumor of 6 inches or more. His Gortex is still shiny and he’s liable to poke your eye out with his pow shape because he’s frothing so heard he just can’t control himself in the lift line. Yeah, fuck that guy.
7. Your friends will ditch you. Well, only if you suck, so disregard this one if you’re remotely fun to ride with.
8. You get wet/cold. All your shit is now soaking wet and if you lazily leave it in a pile in the trunk of your car you will not only have mold/odor issues, but your next day trying to ride is a total bust. You’re way too lazy for that nonsense.
9. It makes your face hurt. Even if you don’t have a beard to get frozen into an ice mass, your cheeks ache seriously at the end of the day. Pain from pleasure? Uhg, fuck that.
I’d chop my wiener off just to ride powder now
Do it! I hear it’s easier to get sponsored as a girl…
at least some resorts on the east coast are open… my hill is still not open.
pow hounds rule, #3..what else would you want to do besides lap powder like its a chore to get on with the next thing
you forgot about all the sneaky rocks, stumps, logs etc.
one reason it is bad is that is causes an addiction much like heroin, I spent 4 years in Utah chasing it and no matter how much you get it always leaves you wanting more, though it is a healthy physical addiction the financial outcome are very much the same
Fuck ya bro!
Fuck powder, everyone needs to stop wasting they time and really appreciate the simplicity of caring down the fall line and not across it.
Until then powder shouldn’t even be a fucking option.
1. It slows you down
2. You get buried
3. You get stuck
4. It makes driving hard
lol, not in the Pacific Northwest. And you also only get wet riding pow in the Pacific Northwest. Utah, Colorado, anywhere that it doesn’t rain regularly on hill, the snows too dry.
#4 and #6 go together if it were not for all the dickhead aggro powder guys up there fucking 1 hour before the lifts open no one would have to get up early
for if not for time, there would be no early, no aggression, no sticks battering broken hollowed logs that once held them
POW-SUCKS because anybody can rip it 6 to 76 yr olds … park / urban is progression …
POWSUCKS every boarder skier can ride pow so it goes fast …THE future of pow riding is who has the biggest wallet $$$$$$$$$$ cat / helli
Haha, you suck dude. If your shitting on people for what they like to ride maybe you should focus on yourself and letting people have fun doing what they prefer… lmao
GO HAVE FUN . FOR ME / POW SUCKS …. I HAVE MORE FUN IN PARK …. THATS JUST ME … IF U WANT POW SPEND $3K GO TO BALDFACE AND GET MORE POW THAN YOU WILL ALL YR AT YOUR LOCAL RESORT ..3K IS TO MUCH FOR ME …SO 4 ME…POWSUCKS
POW SUCKS —-because everybody loves it …everybody can do it …RESORTS get tracked in 1 hour …I don’t want to go home so I do other things on a snowboard other than pow ….pow DOSE KINA SUCK ….
SCREW U—-JAKE IS MY BRO AND WE GET ALL THE POW .. SO STAY IN THE PARK
When some asshole tries to follow your line in the trees and just powder plows it down hill.
pow is for rich dudes in helicopters … resort riders get the scraps at best … times have changed .pow is in big demand —-fun + super easy …….
THANK you Lib-tec for gateway parks ..thank you Burton for big time rail contests…kids cant afford new gear …no way can they afford to get pow on sleds / cats / helli ….. urban is the future . pow is getting scarce with climate change anyway..powsucks hard …
SO if 3000 people show up at 8:55 for the pow-day tram that’s better than if 3000 people show up between 7:45 —- 8:55 ….. ? pow is overcrowded cuz its soo fun + soooo easy everybody is on it ….go get a split–board or get super rich
HAAAAAA even the non resort backcountry gets hammered in no time at all in Jackson and Utah cottonwoods …. powsucks
every kook on planet earth is ripping pow at the resorts ……get a splitboard or LEARN HOW TO RIDE PARK …..HAAAAAAA
POW DOSNT SUCK pow rules …old outa shape kooks can fall all day and not get to banged up ….low impact / low skill
WHAT A STRANGE BARRAGE OF COMMENTS.
POWDER sucks cuz Snowbird gets tracked out in 15 min. …not 16 …..15 ! and driving home at 9:15 am seems like a waste of a $89 lift ticket
POW is for dousche-boys that say.. “don’t tell anybody” !!!! “my line” “don’t follow me ass hole”—pow sucks
POW is for small dicks that say ” haa I got it first ” all tracked out ..hehe
pow sucks because conforming isn’t col.
spelling cool isn’t cool either.
F.U.—POW dosnt suck if your RICH ….snowboarding is a rich mans game now ..SON
I can think of 200 reasons POWDER SUCKS ….the 200 people in line in front of me ..and its 7:49 WTF ?
HERES REASON #10 —WAY TO CROWDED … FUN FOR 10 MIN THEN ITS TRACKED
WANT POW CHEEP WEEKS AFTER DUMP ….WWW.POWDERMOUNTAIN.COM
TEXANS like pow .. nuf-said
Man, where I am, at one of the most blown-up resorts in the world, there is usually pow many days after a storm. How are you guys looking for your powder? D’ya just stand at the bottom and look up?
EVERY one from BOSTON to LA can ride POW~!!
pow is overated……………….
pow is way to easy
POWSUCKS—-pow is for NEWBS—-TOURISTS + SENIORS ..get it togeather
pow is for gapers with a $800 BURTON jacket and a monster truck ….PU SUCKS
pow sooooo sucks ..to easy
POW SUCKS
pow WONT FLOAT MY 187 RAD AIR TANKER … POW SUCKS ….GONA GO BIGGER
I get shrinkage when I ride pow …..sucks !
POW is for people that cant ride park…. pow = 4 epic days / yr ….park = 100 epic days / yr
HOW many pow snowboarders dose it take to screw in a light bulb—10 .. 1 to screw it in and 9 to say [ NICE TURNS ] POW SUCKS …..
POW-SUCKS —-to easy ………..
dear MR DICK ON TOAST … YOU SUCK … POW IS ALL I CAN DO….