I think some of you don't fully get the philosophy of the dry powder and I think this is a good time to explain it to you. I had a close friend die a couple years ago, he was a great x-sports kind of guy, adopting a lot of crazy things before they started to become well known and normal, like kite surfing.
He died jumping into the ocean during record surges in California, sure he could ebb and go with the flow and the ocean wouldn't hurt him. Well, he knew it might (hurt him that is), and this time it decided to smash him against the rocks and kill him.
I understood that he would want to go this way because the pull of nature had that affect on him, he had to be out there on and in the water, feeling the flow of the forces of nature, the ocean current, the wind, the wind as pressed into action by a wave front. He lived to feel nature's motion that closely. To die that way, also fitting, if sad.
What does this have to do with dry powder? A lot!
Some people literally live for dry powder, check it out:
I know people that would KILL for powder that dry! It's all about the snow, man! You might say to yourself, "oh, dry powder isn't that important"... fine, go ski at your low-altitude-snow-machine "resort" and if all you want is a warm alcoholic drink half-way up the slopes (try the hot cider) then fine. But if you are a genuine extreme mountain junkie, you know the difference.
I myself have not skied for like, 15 years, so this is me in the powder, wondering:
"Senator, does your powder really have to be that dry."
"Yes, Skippy [that's my dog name -py], it does"
- quote from famous Senator.