What is Champagne Powder?
If you ski in Colorado, you’ll hear other resorts talking about Champagne Powder, but they’re just posers. Only Routt County has true champagne powder snow, and you’ll only ski it in Steamboat.
Champagne Powder is drier and fluffier than regular snow. Where it takes 12″ of regular snow to make an inch of water, it takes 30″ of champagne powder to make an inch of water. The technical definition for Steamboat’s Champagne powder is “heaven on Earth” or “pure bliss”.
Some days we get “wild snow”, which is even drier and fluffier than usual. When the water content is less than 4%, that’s wild snow. (Most champagne powder averages 4%-11% water content, and the cement that falls in the Sierras and the East is at least 11%.)
This week, it SNOWED!
Check out Steamboat Resort’s web cam for a view of the new snow before it melts.
(Don’t worry….there will be more.)
For true weather afficionados, check out the information and data collected at theStorm Peak Lab. Also visit the webcam on top of Storm Peak.
Posted: October 23rd, 2008 under Ski Stuff.
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