[Dave L]

hopping does suck but I dont see skiing as easier to learn and certainly cant see why you cant snowboard in powder.

From what I have seen you can learn to snowplow and "ski" fairly early on, but the road to being a solid intermediate is a long road. On the opposite side Snowboarding sucks the first day or 2 but the progression to running blue runs etc is fairly quick.

As far as powder goes flotation rules and a wider base will give you that.

I have been Snowboarding for 17 years, skied for 2, always incontrol and always trying to improve.