This winter, Schaefer and O’Brien came up to Jackson for a weekend of insanely deep powder skiing, giving me a chance to put the new 112mm-underfoot Meraki powder skis to the test. Here’s what I found ...

Thigh-deep in powder ... I can ski much better in Hokkaido.” Hokkaido is surrounded by water, which fuels the weather systems that produce the consistent dry powder it is world-renowned for.

POWDER was first released in the early 1970s. Over the decades, the magazine has chronicled the fitful and fantastical evolution of skiing. Deep Tracks brings you digitized copies of our previous ...