Why Can't They Blow Powder Snow?

Think about it. If men could create powder, they wouldn't be men anymore. They'd be gods! Pagan idols, at worst. Okay, the brief and (sort of) scientific answer: Resort water is too wet to make dry powder. The liquid at resorts squirts through a hose from pond to snow gun. Whereas Alta's clouds, for example, traverse hundreds of miles of Great Basin desert, all the while drying to five-percent water density. You tell me which is going to produce heavenly dandruff. That said, man-made flakes have improved vastly in the last couple decades: Snow guns now mix water with a bacteria byproduct that speeds crystallization of the droplets, thus producing more snow for a given amount of water, and hence, drier pellets. v