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I grew up snowboarding Roundtop and it's sister Ski Liberty without having truly experienced real powder. As a kid, it was easy to believe that snow-making was

I grew up snowboarding Roundtop and it's sister Ski Liberty without having truly experienced real powder. As a kid, it was easy to believe that snow-making was just a part of all ski resorts, and it didn't occur to me that bigger mountains don't need them. Then I went out to Lake Tahoe, and it was nothing short of magical. The night I arrived, the skies blanketed the mountains with two feet of fresh powder. Cruising through the trees that next morning in the real snow is something I'll never forget. Still, there was something about riding a slow chairlift up my small, local mountains with the freezing wind whipping your numb face, and then getting blasted with icy man-made snow as your chair glides through the path of a snowblower.

justinator 11y ago
Living in CO, I can tell you that snow making is used here quite frequently. It just doesn't snow with the type of frequency you'd think and most of our largest storms happen in the Spring, when the resorts are winding down. Take last year (2015) for example, where our Spring was much wetter than usual, http://www.wcc.nrcs.usda.gov/ftpref/data/water/wcs/basinsweplots/co/basinplotark15.gif http://www.wcc.nrcs.usda.gov/ftpref/data/water/wcs/basinswep...
randlet 11y ago
"Cruising through the trees that next morning in the real snow is something I'll never forget" Yes! The first true powder run you make in your life after skiing/boarding for 20+ years on east-coast hardpack is a nearly religious experience.