Smartphone-toting skiers who find less snow at a ski report than expected can use phone cameras and wireless networks to complain to their buddies. This new transparency might force ski areas to be more honest, or so says Salon in this report, based on part on a study last month by two Dartmouth professors that [...]

Temperatures are supposed to be in the 50s all week and hardly even freezing at night, so vague hopes that ski areas down in our neck of New Hampshire might open by Thanksgiving are disappearing. (You can’t make snow at that temperature, no matter how good your equipment.)
So let’s take solace in looking at this [...]

I found this interesting discussion on the Snow Journal forums about why ski areas are loathe to open some trails after heavy natural snows, unless they’ve already put down a base of manmade snow; basically, manmade snow is heavier and stickier on the ground, so it forms a base that lasts better in warm spells. Putting manmade on top of natural is a much less long-lasting arrangement, apparently.