August 20, 2018 By Matt Hansen

The Powder Union–consisting of 20 men and 13 women–skied bell to bell for four days. They plundered powder in tight trees and chutes, toured out of bounds, and used proper avalanche protocol to descend consequential lines. They crushed bumps in gullies and bombed hot laps on the oldest race hill in Western Canada.

The clouds rolled in, the snow came down in waves, and visibility all but vanished. With fresh snow falling all week long at Red Mountain, British Columbia, the skiing in any direction was as good as you could ask for. But while deciding our options atop Grey Mountain–one of three forested peaks that make up the 4,200 acres of intricate, steep terrain at Red–we lucked out with local beta.

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