Stoke your adrenalin as you dance with gravity, floating down untracked bowls of fluff, sinking waist-deep into champagne powder. Weave through trees on virgin glades. Hop a chopper and soar into the country’s alpine rooftop, or go backcountry to just the swoosh of your skis or the poof of your snowshoes. Then finish the day rosy-cheeked in a log lodge in front of a crackling fireplace dining local on gourmet cuisine.

Folks think powder snow is for pros only. Not so. Most resorts offer Powder 101 classes for newbies. Here’s a round-up of the best cross-Canada powder:

• Hit the Powder Highway in eastern British Columbia’s Kootenay Rockies, a circuit of epic dry snow that includes Revelstoke, Kicking Horse, Fernie and others.
• Backcountry ski into the first facility to cater to ski-tourists, Alberta’s rustic Skoki Lodge, an alpine retreat in the Rockies.
• Heli-skiing was born in Canada almost half a century ago and since almost all the world’s heli-skiing takes place in British Columbia, get high with the pioneers, Canadian Mountain Holidays, on the Bugaboos and the Monashees.
• Try powder with a French accent, roast-duck dinners and an outdoor Jacuzzi overlooking Quebec’s Chic Choc Mountains on the remote Gaspé Peninsula.
• Go glacier or take a Swiss-style hut-to-hut route with British Columbia’s Selkirk Mountain Experience.
• Snowshoe, telemark or snowboard—all in one day—before doing a face plant into a downy feather bed at one of the early environmental stewards of British Columbia’s backcountry accoms, the luxe Purcell Mountain Lodge.