The cast-resin monsters rested on beds of artificial snow, and hovering Shoggoths were held aloft with thin metal poles.

NEWYORKER: Show The Monster

Artificial snow can make up for a thin snowfall, but it is expensive.

ECONOMIST: The ski business

Quebec's Mont Sutton ski resort argued in court that it qualified for the break because it "manufactured" artificial snow and leased it to skiers.

FORBES: Burgers, Snow and Pork

In a conference room next door Jerry Jr. pored over a geologic map of a ski resort the Falwells plan to build on Candlers Mountain, cell phone pressed to his ear as he debated with a real estate partner whether to use artificial snow for the slopes.

FORBES: Prophets of Boom

"For the competition, anyway, the snow is always artificial, " Chernyshenko said.

WSJ: Menu

Essentially, they isolated a rectangular column from the surrounding snowpack and used a snow saw to start an artificial fracture by cutting through the weak underlying frost layer, then watched what happened.

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