Machine-made snow forms spherical balls instead of flakes, creating harder surfaces that affect skiing performance, but offer other tradeoffs that help with early season conditions.

As the ski season comes to an end, it's worth examining the tool that helped many ski resorts to survive this warmer, drier-than-usual winter: snow machines. While some ski resorts rely on traditional ...

DENVER -- The sight can be jarring during extreme drought: snowmaking guns lined up on a mountainside, blasting precious crystal flakes on a ski run while the rest of the land goes thirsty. Snowpack ...

BRIGHTON — As the ski season comes to an end, it's worth examining the tool that helped many ski resorts survive this warmer, drier-than-usual winter: snow machines. While some resorts rely on ...

SODA SPRINGS -- The first snowfall of the upcoming winter season fell last weekend, and with it, resorts in the Sierra turned on the snow machines to begin laying a foundation of snow for the season.