cammyammy Wrote:
I can't imagine stock piling snow is a great idea.
Sure the pile would last long, as a pile. But as soon as you move it, presumably during the said thaw, it would melt really quickly.
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Not strictly relevent to this thread but I know the biathlon venue at Ruhpolding in Germany stockpiled a mountain of snow over the summer one year. I think it was in the region of 50m high. They covered it with straw & plastic. About half of it survived the summer & they used muckspreader to form a 1m deep base on the tracks. But then biathlon in Germany has a lot of money we have to make the best of far more limited resources in this country.