In the last winter, the hottest of the record, some ski hills and Nordic centers may want to look at snow farming – the experience of collecting snow to extend the season.
Canada was one of the pioneers of a technique used in the world, which in fact has nothing to do with the product or cattle.
Snow farming means a few different things to call snow in winter in winter. However, unlike artificial snow vessels, these methods work even if there is no source or freezer temperature.
Banff Sunlight in Alberta, which has no access to the main source of water, has been a snow farm since the 70s.
“According to our unique space, the family brand and vice president of the family brand and communication, which we build our resort, the family brand and communication vice-president, said that snow agriculture is a need and less snow.
The Mountain Operations team uses bamboo and plastic fences to benefit from high winds.
“We will close a fence and snow and blow the wind as a part of the fences for black holding,” Scurfield said. “Our team learns wind samples to know that it will be the best zone to catch him.”
Once the fenced zone is full, they will move to where the abdomen is most. He said as spreading icing on a cake.
Scurfield says snow farming in snow farms in the Alps, which has been in some power since the Middle Ages, this is more needed in North America and says they will continue to do so as climate change.
Although there is still an unusual experience in North America, it is used in various ski areas, including snow farming, BC’s Baldy Mountain Resort, Vermont’s Craftsbury open center and Alberta Canmore Nordic Center.
To use snow memory Help the early season
Jamie Temple works as a snow drip controller for the Canmore Nordic Center. In the past, we did a number of types of snow farming, but now pay attention to what the temple references as snow – snow savings in pilots covered with insulating materials.
“Snow storage is used to take a course in the early season when there is no snow memory,” he said.
In 2009, Canmore Nordic Center launched the experience of making large snowpacks in mid-December or early January, and covers them in the thick layer of a thick saw in the summer. Then stored snow, around Thanksgiving, around Thanksgiving, is dug in a road called frozen lightning.
This year, frozen thunder is six or seven kilometers compared to original 2.2 km. His strength was extended to a high-rest ski course from an internship for high-performance athletes.
“Last year, we received -15 c in October, and this year was quite the opposite – we did not receive a bitch and rainfall was near Nile.”
“This is more than a gradient, since a very different year … Although the climate change is worsened, we do these processes to make sure we can bring quality products to people.”
To manage snow farming, air unpredictability
The United States suffered a study The University of Waterloo estimates that the US ski industry lost more than $ 5 billion in the last two decades due to the climate change caused by human being.
Judy Geer and her husband Dick Dick Dreysigacker took the open center of Vermont-based craftsigacker in 2008, it focused on life sports, sustainable practices, sustainable practices and directed to good managers of lands.
“Climate change – there is no doubt – and we are like skiers, especially,” he said. “Last year, everything was melted a little rapidly … and unfortunately, this year was doing the same. There was almost 15.6 c) yesterday.”
Craftsbury, several snowfalls with several snowfall, because they were looking for other solutions, because it was not enough cold to give thanks to the end of November.
Professor of the University of Vermont University of the University of Environment and Natural Resources Paul Bierman approached the artist in 2018 to offer an internship in snow farming.
They started with small test stacks, and as a result, a thick layer of snow would allow to maintain 65-70 percent of the abdomen. Soon, in an old pond, almost 6,000 cubic meters of snow collected a stack.
According to Geer and BiERMAN, the craftsman is the only place in the United States, which is engaged in snow farming, but this is very important for its ski season.
“It’s pretty amazing, there is snow under this wood chips all summer,” he said. “And that means Thanksgiving is that it is for us that it is not enough to make fresh snow, and we can snow, and we can ski one with one.”
Clock | A period break of snow piles:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2vvvo6yqd8u
To reduce the impact of the environment, many wooden chips are driven by generators with the heat recovery unit used to enhance their apartments to strengthen their apartments, which are used to make the trees falling and pile.
In addition to economic stability for craftsbury and surrounding local enterprises, snow farming also allowed the city to make a small way to July 4 for July 4.
“People slip and jump and turn and turn and turn it in the middle of July on the middle of July,” he said. “It was probably the funniest thing I have ever seen.”
