It may be a mixed blessing, but a good snow is a glorious thing.

"I've seen pretty good snow before but not like this."

If we get a good snow and freeze we'll have ice.

"It's a classic recipe for good snow in the big cities."

The plain ski truth is, at no time can one be sure of finding good snow, anywhere.

Mornings were still for skiing - somebody had to put all that good snow to use.

"Got to get up there before the good snow is skied off," he would say.

In the end, though, good snow and spectacular surroundings are what most skiers want.

She had evidently foreseen that we were going to run short of good old snow.

You know, when I first moved here, we always got at least one or two good snows every winter.