August: End of summer data

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 […]

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This entry was posted on Saturday, August 31st, 2019 at 10:43 pm and is filed under Uncategorized.

March: It’s aliiiiiiiive!!!!

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. […]

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This entry was posted on Tuesday, March 5th, 2019 at 5:35 pm and is filed under Uncategorized.