Do skiers prefer artificial snow?
Skiers and snowboarders in downhill racing events often prefer the harder, faster artificial snow over natural snow. Do skiers like artificial snow? For skiers, artificial snow tends to behave like natural snow after it's left to sit out for several days: fast and icy. Some downhill skiers say they actually prefer to have manmade snow to help speed up the course, but others say the all-artificial track is behaving differently than skiers are used to.