"there's a powder at aspen" expression means what?

I'm reading a book where "The Advice Guy" says "Tell your boss the roport will have to wait. There's a powder in Aspen!".

I got, here, what "take a powder" means, but what about "there's a powder in..."?

(google image shows ski images when I search for this expression)

Tell your boss the report will have to wait. There's a powder in Aspen!

This means there is a layer of fine powdered snow (on top of the existing snow cover) at the Aspen, Colorado, ski resort. That layer of powder on top makes for optimal skiing conditions, and might be considered too good to resist.

The "a" is nothing more than a typo.

It's simply: "there's powder in Aspen"

"Powder" simply means "fresh snow" -- the type that skiers want. It's just a skiing term.

Just google "skiing term powder" for literally 100s of examples,

"Powder: Fresh, dry and lightweight snow that for many is the Holy Grail of skiing and snowboarding. Large amounts of fresh powder make for epic skiing conditions."

The "a" is nothing more than a typographical error. It is meant to read "There's powder in Aspen!"

(Note - there is utterly no connection, in any way, whatsoever, between powder snow (i.e., it looks like powder, talcum powder) and the idiom "take a powder".)