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Using cable lengths of up to 1,200 metres and a tractive force of up to 4.8 tonnes, winches can support the machines on steep slopes. [11] Snow groomers warn skiers and snowboarders with visual or acoustic signals. Groomers are mostly sent out during the night time after the close of the ski area so as not to interfere with daily and night skiing.
The parallel grooves visible on a trail or slope that has been recently groomed by a snowcat or other grooming machine. cross-country skiing. Also called XC skiing, Nordic skiing, or simply cross-country. A type of skiing where skiers rely on their own locomotion to move across snow-covered terrain, rather than using ski lifts or other forms of ...
BOBA FETT (22D: "The Mandalorian" character with a spinoff series) The spin-off series mentioned in the clue is The Book of BOBA FETT, a 7-episode miniseries that aired in 2021-2022.I wrote about ...
A A-grade Also aid climbing grade. The technical difficulty grading system for aid climbing (both for "original" and an adapted version for "new wave"), which goes: A0, A1, A2, A3, A4, A5 and up to A6 (for "new wave"). See C-grade. Abalakov thread Abalakov thread Also V-thread. A type of anchor used in abseiling especially in winter and in ice climbing. ABD Also assisted braking device. A term ...
An inclined elevator consists of one or two inclined tracks on a slope with a single car on each carrying payload. In the case of a two-track configuration each car operates in a shuttle principle: it moves up and down on its own track independently of the other car. A car is either winched up to the station on the top of the incline where the ...
Gov. Jay Inslee has now signed an agreement to build a huge wind farm of “affordable energy” on the slopes of the Horse Heaven Hills. Michael Rucker of Scout Clean Energy says this will ...
Tesla's stock price reached $420 on Wednesday afternoon, which elicited responses from social media users and the company's CEO, Elon Musk. "As foretold in the prophecy," Musk wrote in an X post ...
Zonda wind (on the eastern slope of the Andes in Argentina) Pampero (Argentina and Uruguay), very strong wind that blows from the sea over the Rio de la Plata into the Pampa, generally accompanied with a thick line of squalls, with severe rains, hail and thunderstorm. Puelche (on the western slope of the Andes in south-central Chile) [7]