Ski resorts are opening up for the season and it's been a strong start, according to ski experts with some of the mountains, reporting snow as early as October.

“So much snow! Ready to shred," Courtney DiFiore from Vail Resorts Northeast. The temperatures have dropped and the mountain snow is flying.

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“ I think this season, all signs are pointing to a really good, snowy year, because we just received almost a foot of snow,” DiFiore said.

Nowadays we don’t have to rely on the weather for powder. As our climate keeps changing and seasonal patterns become more uncertain, the snow making technology has saved many winter sport areas. Okemo in Vermont actually replaced 300 nozzles on their snow guns for this season.

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