ARTIFICIAL SNOW
Coronet Peak Experiments
"The Press” Special Servlet DUNEDIN. Sept. 4. Coronet Peak experiments with artificial snow nave been successful, and next year skiers will be able to use the slopes for five months. The artificial snow, how. ever, will provide limited ski. ing on lower slopes only. Using a special machine, the manager of Mount Cook and Southern Lakes Tourist Company, Mr H. Wigley, in the two-hour test period, made artificial snow to a depth of 3in. It was tapered off to a skiff about 150 ft from the machine.
Before the next ski-ing season a pipeline will be laid from the bottom of the ski tow with a pump and compressor at the bottom. At intervals of several feet jets will shoot out a spray of water over a 200 ft radius to be frozen into snow.
With this method. Mr Wigley said, a dry, floury snow, ideal for ski-ing, oould be laid on an icy base. If the machine were kept going for 18 hours, including a night, snow could be laid to a depth of Ift. The equipment to be installed would supply practice slopes of limited area. )n)
Apart from making an earlier start to the ski-ing season, the machine would keep the snow on the lower slopes built up and in good condition.
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29610, 5 September 1961, Page 17
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