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.

The best snow machines are affordable and easy to use. Offering high output in a user-friendly package, the Chauvet DJ Snow ...

For many students at UC Berkeley, spring semester is the perfect time to head up to the mountains and take a break from academic life. Whether it be skiing or snowboarding, Lake Tahoe provides the ...

The resort needs temperatures to drop to about 28 degrees to begin producing snow, regardless of natural snowfall conditions.

Artificial snow-making – using machines to spray a mixture of water and compressed air to freeze into snowflakes – has been used by the ski industry since the 1950s. With climate change posing a ...