Is There Any Economic Value of Snow as a Natural Resource?

Vale from Vale Colorado is buying mountains around the world mainly so far in North America. They sell about a million of these permits at the beginning of each season for you know close to a thousand dollars now per permit and that generates their revenue flow. On the back of that they as it were higher bunches of enthusiastic ski crazy young people to staff the resorts whose main compensation comes in the form that they get access free access to skiing on these highly otherwise highly exclusive resorts well that makes sense then about why I think of it as a sport for the wealthywell finally I'm curious whether snow has any economic value as a natural resource of its ownI mean can it be repurposed for any