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Spectre1-4 t1_jap1o2w wrote

Reply to comment by HaAnotherLlama in Too much snow cancels state ski racing championships by where_is_my_monkey

Bunch of loosely packed snow can cause an avalanche?

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behv t1_jap2mup wrote

It's a course preparation matter. You need a groomed surface and fences to line the course and since it's ski racing, poles in the ground to mark the actual course

Lake Tahoe just got close to 10 feet of snowfall, meaning the courses were presumably buried and have to basically be remade. It's not "they got some fresh snow" it's "there's so much snow resorts are closing for a couple days to dig themselves out of it to resume lift operations"

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