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Semtex, bulldozers and rock crushing machines

Sunday, 12. 17. 2006  –  Category: Snowboarding

… that’s what it takes to get the slopes ready for us to use when the winter comes round, acording to pistehors.com.

One of the consequences of climate change is that snow depths are thinner, particularly at the start of the season. Snow canons can be used to lay down base but they are costly to run both in terms of water and energy resources. In order to ski on less snow and to make slopes more accessible resorts have taken to ironing out what they see as the imperfections in their domains and seeding the runs with grass. During the autumn the heavy artillery of snow canons is complemented with Semtex, bulldozers and rock crushing machines.

So, another side effect of global warming is that the shape of our ski slopes is being changed, arguably to a less interesting state, in order to retain as much ski time as possible.

Tags: Climate change, Ski resorts