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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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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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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 
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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how do they work then?
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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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...
Last edited by You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net. on Fri 16-04-04 16:54; edited 1 time in total
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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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