Powder snowboarding is what a lot of people in the snowboard word may call "soul boardin",

for good reason. Powder snowboarding, unlike park and all mountain, is done on untouched snow.

This snow is left as it fell, so there are no groomers or anything like that going and packing

down the snow. When you ride down untouched soft snow like this, you get a floating feeling,

it begins to feel closer to riding a surf board because of this. This feeling is what draws people

into riding powder. The feeling of weightlessness and the feeling of freedom when riding powder

the what these kinds of snowboarders chase. Because of the density of our trees and the lack of

snow we get on the east coast, there is much less opportunity to ride powder here than on the

west coast. Occasionally on a snow day you gan get some decent powder turns at a resort,

but unless you are familliar with the woods at the resort you are riding at, or you manage to be

the only person there, everything will end up getting tracked out. Meaning that the soft blanketed

snow that was dropped by Mother Nature has now been ridden through and packed down,

and rutted out, making it bumpy and hard to turn. The only way to avoid this is to have knowledge

of areas in the mountains of New England that you can either hike or splitboard up, and ride

back down. These areas see almost no traffic depending on its location, but these are the places

that rely souly on natural snowfall to cover up all the rocks and other debris that lies under the

snowpack. If you want to exclusively ride powder, you are stuck splitboarding or hiking up natural

areas to "earn your turns".