Steamboat Ski Resort in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. has a trademark on "Champagne Powder" (Murray Foubister via Wikimedia). (CN) — There is nothing like riding a good powder day in the Rocky ...

Backcountry skiing has deep roots in southwest Colorado’s San Juan Mountains, where the swiftest path to powder glory leads out of a place called Purgatory. Boarding a flight that coincides with a ...

My friends and I were stranded in Purgatory and couldn’t be happier. Fat, fluffy snowflakes dumped from the sky and showed no signs of stopping. The storm was so intense the roads leading to Purgatory ...

Powder skiing, like healing crystals and the defensive line of the 1977 Minnesota Vikings, incites normally rational types to dreamy, highly metaphysical praise. Witness extreme-skiing diva Kristen ...