U.S. Olympic skiers and scientists explain the sharp differences between natural snow and machine-made snow, from the science to the rising risk of crashes.

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 ...

When Keystone Resort became the first ski area to open in the fall, nearly all of the snow on its two open runs was artificial. It’s among the adaptations increasingly adopted by ...

Of all the styles of skiing and snowboarding — fast-paced slaloming, freestyle launches off jumps, or casually carving down groomed routes — there's something elevated, ethereal, and wonderful about ...