Towards the end of our Crested Butte stop, the call from Headquarters came in. Proceed immediately up Little Cottonwood Canyon for our participation in Powder Week. Powder Week consists of all the editors and publishers of POWDER gathering with ski company industry folk to ride on all of next year's super skis. It is a gear head's dream come true and with a whopping 65 inches of total snowfall on the way we had no idea how good it was going to get.

We made it up the canyon into Alta just in time for the first big storm. Saturday was good and Sunday was epic with the canyon road closed and everybody interlodged until 9am. A few Wildcat laps yielded chokingly deep untracked snow. When the storm broke Monday morning, some 32 inches had fallen.

Bright sun and blue skies was the hole of opportunity the boys at POWDER were looking for and Gabe was fortunate enough to accompany them on the chopper Monday morning. Stoke was high as the copter lifted off and buzzed the Cirque at Snowbird. Reality soon set in as the guides were leery of unleashing the crew on all that fresh. With a bomber snowpack, only the freshly fallen snow was at risk of moving. That day, the freshly fallen was a few feet. The crew didn't hit as steep of terrain as they would've liked, but they enjoyed surfin' the Wasatch deep all the same.

The sun lasted just long enough for us to have our scheduled stop at Alta and our afternoon party at the Alta Peruvian Lodge. The likes of Matt Collins, Chris Mineci, Jeremy Nobis, and Will Burks were on hand to mingle with partygoers and help raise money for Wasatch Backcountry Rescue. Salomon skis, North Face packs, and Smith goggles and glasses were awarded to lucky raffle participants supporting the cause. Everybody went home stoked and happy and during the night the storm clouds rolled back in to unleash another thirty something inches on us.

It was difficult to leave when the time came, but a high-pressure system was moving in and the great north was calling the PTTP Tour to the road again. Supernatural British Columbia here we come!