> One of the truly amazing sights here in the GWN are the snow piles. =
As the
> city removes snow from the streets it is stockpiled in about 6 enormous
> mounds located in various strategic places.
This reminded me of Obertauren in Austria. One always approaches ski res=
orts
in Europe with a certain amount of trepidation "Is there any snow???". =
Obertauren is at the head of a pass, and when the coach stopped at the =
*bottom*
of the pass to put snow chains on my fears began to abate. We arrived =
in the
village to find snow heaped up in every open space to a height of about =
30ft
(not as much as you, granted). Several drags and lifts had to have snow =
bulldozed away before they could be used, we could ski out of the hotel =
car
park in the morning and back in at night. Ski-ing up and down the main =
road
through the village was standard practice, with signs instructing motor =
vehicles to give way to skiers.
Happy days.
PaulH
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75 V8 DD
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