Snow farming

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Snow farming is the use of obstacles, equipment and knowledge about management of snow in order to strategically manipulate snow coverage. Often this is done for the purpose of skiing or even preventing snow drift in certain areas like roads. The most popular obstacle is the snow fence, which is used to create drifts and collect more snow in a given area than would otherwise naturally occur. The snow can be moved to other areas and groomed with the use of a snow groomer. Sometimes the snow fence is readily movable in order to maximize the collection of blown snow, despite wind direction changes.

Snow farming with movable snow fence
Snow grooming machine distributing farmed snow
Grooming farmed snow

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External links

http://www.chssnowmakers.com/Snow%20Farming.htm

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