To cover a slope with enough snow to ski on, guns must be stationed about 15-30 metres apart, so hundreds are needed at the average resort.
McGowan, who works for the Snow Summit ski resort in Big Bear Lake, called authorities Feb. 7 after he spotted a burning truck on the side of a rarely used, unpaved fire route.
If the snow is the right kind (hard and old but not too old), you can dig out a cave or a trench, or even carve out blocks of snow with a ski-pole, machete or a stick.
Guests also get free entry to the Snow Park, the non-ski slope part of Ski Dubai, where you can make snowballs and snow angels, try sledding and toboggan runs and indulge in all your mid-winter, cold weather fantasies while everyone else is sweating rivers outside.
Moreover, there is no government regulation of the use of vast quantities of the "ice-plus" organisms (which contain the ice-nucleation protein) commonly blown into the air during snow-making at ski resorts.
PORTLAND, Maine Buoyed by plentiful snow and good weather, Northeast ski resorts rebounded this past winter from a lackluster 2012 season that was plagued by lack of snow and high temperatures.
Let your locks down on the slopes of Okemo Mountain, ranked in the top three by Ski Magazine for snow quality in the east.
He owns a Utah ski resort, Snow Basin.
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They're having ski - having ski tournaments or ski races without the snow.
There are 300 kilometers of ski trails, guaranteed snow and over 70 lifts.
Two of Scotland's five ski resorts hope to have enough snow for snowsports this weekend.
The Winter Games boost snow-related sports, but do little for ski resort valuations.
Last winter was one of the best ski seasons in history, with excellent snow conditions almost everywhere the white stuff can be found in the United States.
Even in midsummer, it feels like winter at Jungfraujoch: temperatures are cooler and the air thinner than in the valley below, and people sled, ski and zip-line across the snow.
However Betony Garner, of the Ski Club of Great Britain, insisted the snow sport industry was taking climate change seriously.
The lack of snow and high temperatures made for a dismal 2011-12 ski season for many New England mountains.
The reason people ski in these areas is to find untracked fresh snow but many simply do not understand the dangers.
The helicopters were going back and forth, ferrying snow from the high peaks in the Alps down to naked ski slopes so that the World Cup ski racers would have something to shush on besides bare rock.
Police said the A939 stretches between the Lecht Ski Centre and both Corgarff and Tomintoul were closed by snow.
If the winter snow-line moves up 1000m in the next 100 years the ski industry is going to look very different to the way it does now.
At Nanshan Ski Village, a ski resort near the northern city of Harbin, they manufacture snow from wells deep underground.
Normally, visitors to this ski resort seek nothing more dynamic than pumping knee-deep powder snow or perhaps enjoying a knees-up in one of Davos's nightclubs.
The expert ski staff does everything from simply setting your skis up on the snow to helping your kids into their gear (no small feat) and preparing your equipment for the next day.
The Lecht ski centre in Strathdon, Aberdeenshire, was closed on Saturday due to heavy snow on the access roads.
James Craig, a manager at the Telford Snowboard and Ski Centre, said that ironically the slope is designed to be used when real snow falls.
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According to the National Weather Service, scattered snow showers in Vail -- home to one of the nation's best-known ski areas -- were expected to linger into Monday evening.
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He worked as a resort rep for Crystal Ski and was skiing on piste with colleagues on a day off when he hit the snow-making apparatus.
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Speaking of skiing, JPL is a thirty-minute ride from Marmot Basin, a fantastically beautiful ski mountain with nine lifts, a 3, 000-foot vertical drop and superior snow conditions.
"Mr. Putin told me Sochi has the best snow in the world, and I have no reason not to believe him, " former Olympic ski champion Jean-Claude Killy, chair of the International Olympic Committee coordination commission for the Sochi games, told reporters last year.
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