The hill relies on natural runoff and snow melt to fill the pond ... But the community helps in whatever way they can. Stratton Mountain has lent two snow guns and the hill has around 100 active ...

Until, with climate change minimizing and melting ... Mountain Resort some 30 miles west and, with $2 million in new snowmaking guns, light-years away. Stratton has loaned the Brattleboro hill ...

Lonely patches of snow melting on the hill ... which offers 604 feet of vertical and resembles a mountain more than a Midwestern hill, once drew 60 percent of its customers from the mitten ...

sped down the icy hill. Forecasters couldn't say precisely when the snow would be gone. But it was likely that most would melt under sunny conditions Thursday, clearing up icy roadways.

Continued cold snaps have kept the couple inches of snow that fell on several parts of the southeast from melting away, and allowed Cloudmont to continue snowmaking. The ski hill rejoiced in ...