SjalabaisWoWS

SjalabaisWoWS OP t1_jdyym9q wrote

Reply to comment by ARasool in The way the snow and wind have avoided this cabin in the high mountains of Norway by SjalabaisWoWS

Materials are flown in by helicopter - today at least. In the old days, you'd build the cabin first in the valley, then dismantle it again and carry it up on horse drawn sleds, to be build in summer. Here, the narrow side of the cabin faces the direction of the valley and, thus, the probable wind direction. I have an overview shot showing this whole cabin cluster, I can find it later if you're interested. Where I live, exposed cabins have bracing wires running through the roof and mounted to the ground, like a tent.

With my colleague's cabin, he complained that the wind always deposits snow on one corner of the cabin, where the door was. I recommended switching the door and a window on the other side, where snow didn't get deposited. He did that and has since been able to enter his cabin right away, instead of shovelling first.

So the easiest way of planning this will always be to study the way snow is deposited around rocks and similar big obstacles during winter. When the train line between Oslo and Bergen was built, scouts spend three whole winters in the mountains surveying this kind of thing.

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SjalabaisWoWS OP t1_jdvijkf wrote

Reply to comment by CoolBeanzYo420 in The way the snow and wind have avoided this cabin in the high mountains of Norway by SjalabaisWoWS

Thank you! It's amazing, with good builders, how you can predict snow patterns based on wind patterns. I actually helped a colleague figure this out once and he is still, though retired long ago, reminding me about that little conversation that helped him reduce the shovelling work he does. Share some of your shots, if you have them! :)

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