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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Glaciers are the last evidence of the Ice age.
As such, like an ice cube, they melt faster as they get smaller.
Ironically the snow cap on Mont Blanc is getting thicker each year, but that story doesn't fit the news agenda.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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| Boredsurfing wrote: |
Glaciers are the last evidence of the Ice age.
As such, like an ice cube, they melt faster as they get smaller.
Ironically the snow cap on Mont Blanc is getting thicker each year, but that story doesn't fit the news agenda. |
I heard this was due to the snow falling on the top being warmer, and hence wetter & stickier, and therefore was not getting blown off as much.
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Shocking photos. The Tignes glacier has been battered. Kaprun, Austria, was in a similar state this Summer.
Summer skiing in Western Europe is sunsetting.
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Plenty more Glaciers,
Summer Heli skiing is the way forward.
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Intresting when they talked the weekend about the glacier in Solden for the race getting steeper as the years whent on. In other words the Glacier is retreating so the pitches are getting steeper and the run out at the bottom longer.
After the big collapse is Sass the weekend and the sad news form Chillie the mountains are a changing
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Ordhan wrote ...After the big collapse is Sass the weekend and the sad news form Chillie the mountains are a changing
huh?
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Ordhan wrote ...After the big collapse is Sass the weekend and the sad news form Chillie the mountains are a changing
huh?
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I can't see a 3 year snapsht providing anything meaningful as to wether the glacier is disappearing or not....
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kitenski, OK, but a 20-year snapshot of the Bionnay glacier on Mont Blanc shows the same thing. Is that long enough?
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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This is the end of the last IceAge. Your just witnesssing the last drops of the ice cover melting away .
Its like watching a bathtub of water emptying when you pull the plug. The last water always disappears a lot faster
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You know it makes sense.
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What Glacier !!, those pics cannot be ignored, will there be anything at all in another 3 years.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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bi bi glaciers.. dosent this lead to other problems and some mountains becoe less stable as permafrost disappears
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Poster: A snowHead
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When we were in Tignes last autumn Kevin, the instructor from Evolution 2, showed us the level of the glacier now compared to when he first started teaching there, about 16 years ago. It was a very sobering sight. The overall snowpack on Mont Blanc might be higher sometimes - but in the "canicule" of 2003 the entire mountain was denuded of everything but the glaciers. I think the authorities closed the whole mountain, because it was so dangerous. A French friend who has lived here for 20 years said he'd never seen it like that before. But in the very short term we might be in for some counter-cyclical cooling? Should see the OAPs out. 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| pam w wrote: |
| The overall snowpack on Mont Blanc might be higher sometimes - but in the "canicule" of 2003 the entire mountain was denuded of everything but the glaciers. |
Like 2009, only this year it was worse.
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davidof,  Actually, I was looking at the mountain at lunch time and thinking that the new snow of a week or so ago was already disappearing quite fast.
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Sitting in a mountain hut and looking at pictures from 50+ years ago is depressing in the extreme - very, very different environment then. If I need a medical check I go to a doctor, for car trouble it is my mechanic. When I hear climate scientists talking of climate change then I rather tend to believe what they say. The science is there as is the evidence in the seas and on the mountains. Copenhagen 09.
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The Leisse is no where near as steep as it was. Quite a big difference from a few years ago.
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| david@mediacopy wrote: |
| The Leisse is no where near as steep as it was. Quite a big difference from a few years ago. |
I thought it was because my skiing had improved between my first and last visit  . Leisse was my 1st ever black run.
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Frosty the Snowman, Funnily enough, that was what the trainer said to us  but I think he was being nice..
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FAQ
Those shots up the top were also 100% white year round..
