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In an age where snow guns sometimes make or break a season (here's looking at you, Mad River Glen), it's easy to forget that without Mother Nature, there'd be no first tracks, tree runs, or face shots. Let's face it, rising global temperatures are putting that precious powder into jeopardy.

In honor of Earth Day 2016, our friends over at Teton Gravity Research (TGR) decided to embark on an interesting thought experiment: just how much is an epic powder day at Jackson Hole Mountain Resort actually worth? TGR teamed up with the Vermont Energy Investment Corporation to calculate how much money, energy, and water it would take to create a man-made powder day at Jackson.

And guess what? It's a lot. To coat Jackson Hole Mountain Resort with 12 inches of goodness, it would require 2,723 snow guns to pump out 108,900,000 cubic feet of snow. All in all, that powder day is worth about $59 million.

36-year old Al Machell from Hertfordshire has done what no-one has done before – the marathon in a pair of ski boots. PlanetSKI has tracked him down.

Al drew the attention of the TV cameras and others as he completed the 26-mile course in a pair of 15-year old salomon boots and his ski racing cat suit.

It took him 8 hours and 1 minute to finish the route on Sunday and he is now applying for recognition in the Guiness Book of Records.

“I went round in a series of lunges at walking speed. And I feel surprisingly fine today, though I'm looking forward to seeing my girlfriend later as she is a physio and will help me with some muscle aches,” he said to PlanetSKI on Monday.

Two weeks ago the Securities and Exchange Commission and the state of Vermont filed civil fraud charges against the owners of Jay Peak Ski Resort, accusing them of misusing more than $200 million from foreign investors intended for development projects.

Now, a federal receiver appointed to oversee Jay Peak and Q Burke Mountain says that the two resorts may not be able to open without additional money. According to the SEC, more than $200 million was misappropriated by the owners of Jay Peak, Ariel Quiros and William Stenger, in a Ponzi-like fashion. The defendants allegedly diverted millions of EB-5 money into their own pockets instead of towards the facilities investors were told would be built. Then, money from investors in later projects was used to fund deficits in earlier projects.

The Burlington Free Press first reported that receiver Michael Goldberg filed a court declaration Friday saying the entities named in the fraud case “have very little cash and numerous upcoming expenses,” and if more money is not obtained he will be forced to shut down the operations of Jay Peak and keep Q Burke closed.