The man-made snow is respectable packed powder, though it feels a little different, as if some chemicals have been added.

Also, it's been consistently cold, which has enabled us to make a lot of man-made snow.

That is also true of the state's other five ski areas, which traditionally rely far more on man-made snow than on the real thing.

In New Jersey, club members can avail themselves of man-made snow, sophisticated lifts and newly developed ski areas.

Where the new season's races have taken place, all have been on strips of man-made snow set into dun-coloured grass.

Mueller fell in practice on the Camel bumps where the man-made snow was perhaps too thin.

Come out of the cave, man, did you know we have man-made snow now too?

A computerized snowmaking system was installed and the man-made snow should enable an earlier opening of more terrain.

Gone are the days when trails groomed with man-made snow meant skiing through heavy white sludge.

Lift lines were mostly nonexistent, and snow - both man-made and natural - was plentiful.