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Do all resorts have to comply with a certain criteria for calculating snow depths?Or does a certain ammount of creative marketing apply 
Just curious as to how and where they calculate the snow depths we all rely on,and is there a worldwide standard way of taking measurements as there is with temperature???
Surely there are lots of variables to take into account?
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brian
brian
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hedley, I think probably most of them are just sticking a pole in the ground but at the more hi-tech end, the ones in automatic weather stations use ultrasound sensors like this one ...
http://www.campbellsci.ca/Catalogue/SR50M.html
... so you get data like this (for the Lower Valais in Switzerland) ...
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brian
brian
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Here's an AWS spotted somewhere in Switzerland ...
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hedley, Traditionally, every resort has a pathological liar who is tasked with providing the local snow reports.
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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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| hedley, Traditionally, every resort has a pathological liar who is tasked with providing the local snow reports. |
Is it true that they are called "Reps", and are all part of a club? 
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Don't shoot the messengers...
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Or the person who booked the group holiday and would llike to look good!
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They don't bother with any high tech or low tech euipment....the phrase "Best snow on upper slopes" normally covers all conditions
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brian, yeh you are totally right! and if you want to knwo where one is in serre che, it is right by the water resevoir near the prorel
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