Best snow in the world? and why?

Japan & Utah hands down for powder. It’s amazing

Having been to Japan, Canada, CO-USA, & CA-USA, all of them had pretty amazing snow…....By “best” I assume you mean lightest and driest…...ie the type of snow where you cannot make a snowball and as you ride through it, it just disappears into thin air. In that instance that eliminates Whistler. I spent a season there over 10 years ago (98/99) and in the 3 months I was there it snowed over 10m…there were several 40+cm days and a few 50cm days. However I do recall Whistler snow being a tad wet/clump - don’t get me wrong it was pretty amazing to ride through such deep stuff, however if I turned “too sharply”, and it went into my face and I breathed in, I didn’t feel like I was choking (does that make sense?)-Drier snow does that. I went back again for a month in 2000/01 and experienced an incredibly poor snow season. I think it snowed 50cm in the entire time I was there - ahh you win some and you lose some

Having spent some time in Heavenly last season, I was fortunate to arrive at a time the big storms were arriving, meaning lots of fresh snow - Whilst an awesome experience I think the snow was drier elsewhere (this is me being INCREDIBLY picky as I would go back to Heavenly in an instant!).

That leave Japan (Niseko/Rusutsu) and Colorado USA. To be honest, its hard to separate the 2. The reliability of the snow in Japan is hard to beat, however it does slightly lack the steeps. Of course if you take the single seater chairlift (does it still exist?), hike to the peak and ride down all the way, its a few minutes of uninterupted powder

After much though I would have to settle for Colorado, in particular Vail - whilst it has mental crowds (ie avoid Saturdays), if you get there on a weekday and it has dumped 12 inches and is sunny, my god, words can’t describe the joy