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Big pipes in Meribel

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Right, can someone explain what those big metal pipes sticking out the mountain are under the Pas du lac gondola as you go up to Saulire?

My group came up with ideas ranging from the sublime to the ridiculous....from Avalance control (tho how what would work i dont know!) to Sewage (i hope not!)

I have no doubt they exist in other places, but never noticed them before!
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Avalanche booming - they set off the snow before any freeriders can. They don't have any on death or meribel couloirs though Smile
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how do they work then?
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Well, you blow into a tube, squeeze a bag under your arm, and use your fing......oh, sorry.....misread that as Bag pipes in Meribel rolling eyes NehNeh
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tomski01 wrote:
how do they work then?


If I remeber correctly gas is piped into them then ignited to create a small explosion which (hopefully) releases the snowpack in the area just below them.
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They's gazex pipes, I'm guessing
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That is correct. Normally near the pipes you can see a round dumpy cannister about 2m in diameter which houses the gas. It normally situated just at the top of the mountain above the pipes.

I'm not really a cardigan, honest !
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well, there you go, just like a big hairdryer!

thanks, you learn something new everyday!
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Yea thanks - its quite a technical afternoon what with Poma chairlifts too.

Any plans to tune the pipes? I guess if there were enough of them
they could be sequenced into a crap melody...

(OK its a friday afternoon...


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If they had them in Laax (and they might have) they would literally make a Crap melody.


To link to another thread, Crap is a "rock" or "peak" in the local dialect...don't you just love tying up the loose ends at the end of the week? Not sure teaching the puppy to ski comes into this though.
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