Powder. It’s basically the best kind of snow to ride, unless you’re from Finland – in which case you’re welcome to your ice… The recurring wet dream of snowboarders from Sheffield to St Anton is to ride as much as you can fill your greedy gobs with it, yet with successively shit winters the old cherry cherry has become all the more scarce. While prayer, virgin sacrifice and developing methods of cloud seeding have an outside chance of working, there are some more reliable tips to ensure that you get the best chance of scoring the goods…
1. Load the dice

Tip the odds in your favour by actually being in the right mountains at the right time of year. Ok, that’s sounds like shit advice but hear us out… If you look at making your trip at the classic, mid-winter times of between January and March you statistically have a better chance of coinciding your stay with the arrival of a major snow storm.
But the wise powderphile will get deeper by looking at the historical records of different areas to see if there are any patterns to when snowfall there is highest. Then, of course, you also can look at heading to areas that have a long tradition of high, regular winter precipitation – save your coin and head to Japan would be the first option that springs to mind – and we helpfully luckily pulled together a list of other places that tend to receive an embarrassment of riches in the powder department. Just blame science or chemtrails if you get there and it’s dry, though. Don’t shoot the messenger…
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