The town of Aspen was the center of the ski universe on Saturday night as the biggest and best names in the sport and industry converged at the Hotel Jerome for the 2008 Powder Poll and Video Awards presented by Jeep.

For photos, videos, and other cool Powder Awards stuff, go to www.PowderAwards.com.

It's 5 am, everyone's tweaked on speed, we haven't slept for 2 days, and tomorrow turns out to be a powder day. Oops, we bet wrong.

The dealer wins this hand. Fast forward 3 nights; every skier in town is riding a booze bus from the best party of the season to another night of pulsating techno-cheese. Bill is the last one home at 7:00, and the first up at 8:30 to rally the troops for another surprise pow day. At 11:00 he's on a stretcher. Dealer wins again.