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This article from Taiwan News Online, by Associated Press explains, in more detail, the summer glacier-covering techniques currently under experimentation in Austria and Switzerland.
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The first large areas were covered last year. This year, close to 15 hectares are under wraps in Tyrol's Stubaital, Oeztal, Kaunertal and Pitztal regions - about 5 percent of the region's ski areas.
Similar work is being done in neighboring Switzerland, where studies show that glaciers there have lost almost a fifth of their total area between 1985 and 2000, at a rate seven times faster than during the entire 123 years up to 1973. |
Please remove cover before skiing.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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David Goldsmith wrote: |
Please remove cover before skiing. |
*serving suggestion
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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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I love kids but I'm not sure I could eat a whole one.
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has anyone got pics of these covers??
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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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gregh, here , at Andermatt the problem was that the bit of the glacier needed for access from the lift was melting, this was going to be a huge problem for them if it left the lift marooned next winter. I can't picture exactly which bit of the Tortin was covered but I guess it was a similar problem and I can visualise where it might be required at Saas and Zermatt as well. The exit from the the lift at Les Diab's was getting tricky last summer so I guess had they not gone bankrupt they might have done the same thing.
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thanks all, presumably they must remove the covers before new snow arrives and covers it up, would be high ava risk with fresh snow on a foil cover!
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