[Gondolas, cable cars with DVD Player, Radios in Japan]

hy there !

 

are any gondolas (etc) in Japan, which have DVD/Video player (example with LCD monitor) ?

 

thX

[Snow being made at Naeba (photos)]

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but I don't think you can produce man made snow in nice neat piles like that

Yes, it's nearly true. The piles on the pics look out a little bit stranger.
I guess, that in this case the piles weren't made by snowguns. Nowadays at the market are some "snow"making system, which produce "crushed ice". like Snowbox or IDE snowmaker. Whit this sytem you are able to make "snow" at very high temperatures. Example the Snowbox could produce snow till +35 C.
This crushed ice make an ideal base at the slopes for the real (natural) snow, or even for the man-made snow. But skiing only at crushed ice is not a real thing. It's more like springsnow, wetsnow (so no pow)
More information from the IDE Snowmaker here:
http://www.ide-snowmaker.com/

to France: in France it's allowed to mix into the water chemicals/bacterias. That's why the melting is more langer, than in Austria. And this fact is also a reason, why some french slopes are during the summer brown and not green with flowers etc.

After the end of the winterseason some austrian resorts make their slopes (which were snowed with snowguns during the winter) into brown/black. They call this produce "Düngen" (=fertilize). Due the color of this substratum the albedo will be much more lower, so this browny ground pick up much more energy from the sunshine, and this occures a rapid snowmelting.

[Snow being made at Naeba (photos)]

hy guys, for the snowmaking u need three things;

 

- water

- cold temperatures

- electricity

 

and of course a snowgun

 

For snowmaking usually u need temperatures below the zero, but it also depending from the humidity. If the humidity is enough low (example 20 % or so), then u are able to make snow at higher (near freazing) temperatures; +2, +3 C.

If you have mild temperatures as well as high humidity, then you need some extras to make man-made snow, like chemicals or/and radioactive bacterias. Of course for the nature is not so good, and can be dangerous. In some part of the European Alps it isn't allowed, like in Germany or in Austria.

 

The normal man-made snow holds out much more longer, than the natural snow.

Why? In the man-made snow are the snowcrystals other (have an oher form, structure), than the snowcrystals in the natural snow.

 

BTW, except Naeba is theren in Japan any skiresort with snowmaking-system?