Kiwi skiers and snowboarders are celebrating their first big storm of the early-season. Two southerly waves this week set up the South Island of New Zealand for a healthy early-season base. The first, ...

In La Nina winters, nature doesn't always provide natural snow to help ski areas open. Across the U.S. and around the world, resorts often use machines to build base depths when nature can't provide ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — As snow falls during the perfect conditions here in Central Virginia, there are differences in the “type” of snow we may see. One type of snow is less impactful than the other.

Mt. Bachelor in central Oregon boasts with the deepest snow base reading of any ski resort in the country with seven feet of snow at the base, the resort reported this week. The 84-inch base is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As skiers, we pretty much live for powder days. There's truly nothing like the sensation of skiing powder, and few things in the ...