We collected our penultimate scan (the last scan will take place when chips come off and snow is exposed)! This time, we wanted to see how much melt has occurred in fall. Turns out, melt rate is slowing down and the COC still has plenty of snow left (more than 60% by volume of what […]
Tags: LiDAR, snow storage, wood chips
We’ve been heading up every two weeks to scan the pile and collected some pretty cool data. The cross section below snows relatively consistent loss of volume – including compaction and some melting. Scanning wasn’t bad with my indispensable field assistant, Molly Murtha, especially if we remembered to bring bug spray. Across the Fence, a […]
Tags: Across the Fence, LiDAR, melt, scanning, snow storage, The Science of Storing Snow, volume change, YouTube
Over the past year, the COC has been chipping trees that fell in a recent storm to cover the pile in a ~20+ cm layer of wood chips – with some help from new shipments of wood chips, the snow pile is finally covered. We estimate about 650 cubic meters of wood chips, or about […]
Tags: LiDAR, snow, snow pile, snow storage, wood chips
The snow pile is alive and gigantic! Since last summer, the COC has built infrastructure to support snow making down in the pit including a water pipeline, and the installation of three snow guns. Over the past week or so, the Craftsbury Outdoors Center has pumped water down to airless snow guns to create snow. […]
Tags: excavator, fan guns, LiDAR, scanning, snow, snow pile, snow storage
Well, all the snow from our two intrepid piles is gone, finally. Surprisingly, small icy chunks hung on until late October, long enough to see the first snow flakes of fall! Now, however, is prep time for next season. The COC has decided to use Site 2, or the “Pond” Site as their Snow Depot. […]
Tags: LiDAR, ski, snow in summer, snow storage, TLS, wood chips
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