Melting Giants – Construction site: Glacier Ski Resort
If you visit a glacier ski resort during summer, it feels like being on a huge construction site. Big trucks loaded with boulders and dirt driving up and down the mountain, excavators removing huge boulders and levelling slopes. Blasting work is also common. Why? Because the retreating glaciers are leaving big rocks and dirt behind, which need to be removed and levelled to create safe skiing slopes. Additionally even glacier ski resorts now need to build reservoirs for snowmaking. Lastly, at the end of summer, you can find excavators on the glacier, digging up the ice to bury the lift posts, that melted out of the ice during the summer heat. Or they use the ice to fill up crevasses.