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Italy is the European country that uses the most artificial snow, with over 90 percent of Italy's ski slopes using artificial snowmaking systems, according to an April report from Italian environmental group Legambiente.

Battling over the icy slopes in crampons, they reached the summit in "very tough conditions" during a blizzard.

Other slopes in the area that had faced catastrophic movement have completely stilled.

While forecasters hoped the low-pressure system would blanket the slopes in Mammoth, mountainside temperatures remained too warm for serious snow.

The term structures of both the VIX futures and of the Cboe volatility indices have continued to slope upwards, although they are much flatter than they have been in quite a while.