SNOWMAKING ARTICLES

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  March 2026

  Storing Snow Through the Summer

  Once an oddity, storing snow from one season to the next is becoming a viable strategy. By the time the mound of snow at Boise’s Bogus Basin was uncovered near the Easy Rider conveyor lift in early October, the pile had endured summer surface temperatures of 119 degrees. Before it spent six stra Once an oddity, storing snow from one season to the next is becoming a viable strategy.

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  November 2025

  Go Time: Early Season Snowmaking

  The right equipment, a well-aligned plan, and an engaged team help resorts get open quickly and efficiently. Snow guns roared on Copper Mountain’s Oh No Bowl, blanketing the upper reaches of the Colorado resort in white ahead of the U.S. Ski Team’s first day of downhill training. It was Octobe The right equipment, a well-aligned plan, and an engaged team help resorts get open quickly and...

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  July 2025

  Getting Trails Ready for Winter

  It pays to do work during the summer so trails can open with less snow come winter. In the last decade or so, no aspect of mountain operations has been more completely transformed by new technology than snow management. LiDAR mapping combined with sophisticated grooming software has enabled groome It pays to do work during the summer so trails can open with less snow come winter.

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  May 2025

  Adopting Automation

  How two ski areas took the leap into automated snowmaking, and what the results have shown. In response to increasingly fickle snowmaking windows and rising energy and labor costs, Mountain Creek, N.J., and Giants Ridge, Minn., invested heavily to introduce automation to their snowmaking systems a How two ski areas took the leap into automated snowmaking, and what the results have shown.

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  January 2025

  Skiing Double: Deer Valley East

  An expansion of staggering scope, once dreamt of in the original plans for Deer Valley more than 50 years ago, is coming to life. In mid-November, crews at Utah’s Deer Valley Resort were working around the clock to complete “Phase 1A” of the ambitious Deer Valley East expansion. The plan wa An expansion of staggering scope, once dreamt of in the original plans for Deer Valley more than...

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  November 2024

  Making Snow The Cross-Country Way

  Low-snow winters have convinced some operators to embrace small snowmaking systems.  When it comes to natural snow, the climate these days isn’t always forthcoming. It was especially stingy last winter in the Midwest, where states like Minnesota and Wisconsin saw almost no snow. This kind of di Low-snow winters have convinced some operators to embrace small snowmaking systems.