Or they ride powder because it's a feeling you can't get anywhere else! For me it's the freedom and the challenge it offers me that trail riding didn't. Learning to carve,sidehill,climb and using those skills to cut some technical lines through a tree covered hill. Not seeing another sled all day except at the parking lot and eating a PB&J at 10000 ft in the middle of a forest of snow ghosts rocks! A place where your only limitation is yourself where going "off trail" is encouraged not discouraged and getting "lost" is fun! I agree with breeze one trip out west and you will be ruined! Short tracks will start to look funny, backpacks with shovel handles sticking out of them will look normal and $1000 worth of ride gear that breaths will suddenly make sense!
8 days till Colorado can't hardly sleep at night now!