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Germany's last glacier (Zugspitze) is covered for the summer
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... for the last 14 years at Zugspitze, Huber and his staff have spread a giant tarpaulin to deflect the sun, keep the surface cool and shield it from the corrosive warm summer rain.
The shield, expanded this year by 50 per cent to 9,000 square metres, is due to come out within days. The operators say it will preserve 30,000 cubic metres of snow - roughly equivalent to a football-field-sized building that is one-storey high.
The whole article on Germany's fast shrinking glacier is here:
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=263719
OR:
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=143&art_id=nw20070430104218524C746107
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Obviously
A snowHead
isn't a real person
They should have made it from dendrix, then they could have some summer skiing there as well
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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Interesting point in the article about digging half pipes which increases melting, presumeably because it exposes more of the glacier to the air.
I've always suspected snowboarding as being less sustainable than skiing !
In Tignes they don't cover the glacier physically (yet) but instead plough furrows into it with their Kassbohers in an attempt to trap wind blown snow and build up greater depth. Effectively an alternative to the siting of snow fencing.
Presumebaly this idea is working right now to trap the new snow falling above 2000m. Apparently April and May snowfall is really useful at high altitudes to build up depth and provide a sacrificial protection toglaciers and neve fields during the summer melt.
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