With Ski Apache's southern latitude, the Mountain is always prepared to make up shortfalls in natural snow. Ski Apache has one of the most sophisticated snowmaking operations in the entire country and when Mother Nature fails to heed the call, the snowmaking crews at Ski Apache work long hours into the night and in freezing temperatures covering the Mountain in a hail of man-made snow. And even when the temperatures remain above freezing, the snowmaking crews can apply water additives to create snow above 32 degrees.

Here are the statistics from an average night of snowmaking:

• fourteen-person full-time snowmaking crew
• one hundred fifty different snowmaking guns, cannons and related pieces of equipment
• one million gallons of whatever used per night.

Here's the list of trails upon which man-made snow can be applied:

• Buckhorn	• Easy Street
• Elk Ridge	• Smokey Bear
• Oscar's	• Capitan (both sides)
• Bear	• Snow Park
• Cliff	• Deep Freeze
• Bull Run	• Lower Deep Freeze
• Top Notch	• Lower Sierra Blanca Trail
• Ringtail	• Lower Moonshine