Text by West Coast Editor Steve Casimiro
I personally don’t know anything about poaching powder or ducking a ski area rope without authorization and experiencing the sweet transcendence of five-percent eiderdown snow, which is rumored to transform your life so that all you think about is skiing deep untracked, even at the beginning of May when the sun is shining and the birds are chirping. But I’ve overheard that some people do. One story I’ve heard was about a Viking, or, since Norwegians pronounce “v” as “w," to be culturally more accurate, a "Wiking."

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