Poster: A snowHead
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Just been watching last week's C4 skiing and the commentator mentioned 'snow concrete' put down on the course to stop the snow breaking up (due to high temperature presumably). What's that then?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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At a guess, compressed, near ice-like, snow.
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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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beedeji, ...... I imagine Easiski, JT & GrahamN and myself did a field test on this very substance, recently, but at Les Deux Alpes .....! In our case it had all the properties of 30kn concrete & I even lost two pole baskets in less than 200 metres. 'Challenging' without snow on top.....
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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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My Swiss friend is an environmental consultant and I asked her about the fertiliser in the snow issue and whether the meltwater was caught in streamlets and treated when the snow melted (primarily because the company I work for has a trademarked system which is better at treating contaminated effluents and water than a conventional reed bed and I was looking for a bit of business). I was told that many Swiss hill farmers don't have too much objection to the nitrates as it makes the grass grow well in the spring to feed the cows, but that there have been problems with groundwater with abnormally high levels of nitrates. Despite this she seemed to feel it would impractical to channel the water for treatment, but did feel that the use of nitrates was probably not good for the ski slopes as the long term risks of its use were not properly understood. However, it didn't stop her wanting to ski even if the slope had a nitrate content in it!!
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