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  • Groomed powder: Loose, dry snow that has been packed down.
  • Groomed dry snow: Fresh snow or dry drift snow.
  • Hard-packed snow: Several days old dry snow that has been groomed multiple times.
  • Groomed wet snow: Snow suitable for making snowballs.
  • Hard-packed crust: Snow that has become wet and frozen again, with no recent snowfall.
  • Processed crust: Ground snow, slopes have been worked with a grooming machine.
  • Spring conditions: Granular snow, often with a hard surface in the morning that softens with sun exposure during the day.
  • Machine-made snow: Often called artificial snow, though this is misleading as it is actually snow produced by spraying fine water mist into the air using special snow guns.
  • Machine-made snow: Often called artificial snow, but this is misleading since it is actually snow produced by spraying fine water mist into the air using special snow guns.