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I'd always wondered about that

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  • kingjalopy@lemm.eeK [email protected]

    Yeah I know it doesn't fall at once lol but like I just commented it's so perfectly carved

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    Found it! It is a tourist attraction:

    https://www.google.com/search?q=Yuki-no-Otani+Snow+Canyon+in+Toyama%2C+Japan

    And here's how they do it:

    https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/snow-canyon-japan

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      I assume they don't wait until there's 60 feet to start plowing

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      Either that or this magical thing called GNSS 🙂
      Openstreetmap has roads mapped down to a couple decimeters and Japan has its own satellite constellation QZSS, which in combination would be more than enough to find the center of the road and then slowly work your way outwards to the edges.

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      • towelie@lemm.eeT [email protected]

        Found it! It is a tourist attraction:

        https://www.google.com/search?q=Yuki-no-Otani+Snow+Canyon+in+Toyama%2C+Japan

        And here's how they do it:

        https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/snow-canyon-japan

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        Ok awesome! They use GPS and bulldozers and plows. That makes sense. That said, seems like they do wait for it to all fall then they carve it. Very fucking cool.

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        • towelie@lemm.eeT [email protected]

          Found it! It is a tourist attraction:

          https://www.google.com/search?q=Yuki-no-Otani+Snow+Canyon+in+Toyama%2C+Japan

          And here's how they do it:

          https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/snow-canyon-japan

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          Damnit I replied before I read your second link lol. I went down a rabbit hole

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          • towelie@lemm.eeT [email protected]

            Found it! It is a tourist attraction:

            https://www.google.com/search?q=Yuki-no-Otani+Snow+Canyon+in+Toyama%2C+Japan

            And here's how they do it:

            https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/snow-canyon-japan

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            That was such a cool read. Thanks for that, I've had a rough few days and to read that at 630 this morning set me right for some reason. Have a great day, friend!

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            • kingjalopy@lemm.eeK [email protected]

              How do they even know where the fuckin road is under 60ft of snow to say nothing of how they actually do it

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              Sometime in early March, a bulldozer specially equipped with both a GPS and a mobile satellite phone is sent up the mountain and over the Snow Canyon. The GPS and sat phone work in tandem to provide the driver a detailed video screen image of the dozer’s location in relation to the center of the snow-buried highway. This driver’s job is not to clear snow, but simply to lay out an accurate track of the road itself. Following the GPS dozer is a team of dozers that will begin the clearing operations.

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                Woah, it's real.

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                • the_picard_maneuver@lemmy.worldT [email protected]
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                  I would be too worried of it collapsing and burying me alive inside my car

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                    Meanwhile, in my country an inch of snow shuts down the country

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                      Woah, it's real.

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                      They also do this in Rocky mountain national Park

                      https://www.instagram.com/p/DJH75NJv4El/

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                        Woah, it's real.

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                        Great article, thanks!

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                        • anon6789@lemmy.worldA [email protected]

                          Great article, thanks!

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                          Zufallstreffer, first match googling.

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                            Zufallstreffer, first match googling.

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                            Yes, but you took the time to do it. Then you took the time to share the link, which got me to read it, which taught me about all the fancy tech they use to clear the road. I was ready to just call it a neat pic and move on, but now I got a lot more out of it. So....ummm...Schmetterlingseffekt? 😄

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                              Zufallstreffer, first match googling.

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                              Is this an actual word used in the Engliah language or is the german community on lemmy leaking again? 😛

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                                That's 30' of snow wall.

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