As one New Zealander put it: "You can party every night, but there are only so many powder days."

No work on a powder day.

Feb. 18, 1994, had been a powder day in the backcountry near Heavenly, Calif.

When it's a powder day, get up to the top of this lift first thing and head for the Piste des Bosses black run.

Skier - On a powder day, the place you want to be is Kachina Ridge.

On a powder day, that pace can triple, bringing 40,000 visits in a day, Aspen officials said.

At first glance, it was a perfect powder day.

Of course, sled users and opponents alike point out that hybrid skiing isn't all magazine-cover powder days.

That's why we have a saying here that 'there are no friends on a powder day.'

If it's a powder day, that's what you do instead of gates.