Where's The Snow?

A sign of things to come...?

As you know I am an avid fan of alpine skiing. Just the best and also a comfortable few hours each weekend during winter to while the morning away. Watching the Alpine World Cup on television of course. Lovely sport and nail-biting competitions along with seeing parts of the northern hemisphere's prime skiing spots.

Well, not so much anymore. The warming temperatures are causing havoc with the snow. It can only take so much warmth before melting away. A few events had to be changed either in date or location. Finding snow is the hardest part of the races. The correct snow that is. Skiers at that level have to have icy pistes to perform at peak levels. Naturally they can ski on wetter snow, but not as well.

Currently the ski circuit flies all over the world to hold events but they might have to reconsider and choose those countries where snow is guaranteed during winter. Well, sort of. But Russia comes to mind or perhaps Canada and the odd mountain in Switzerland, Austria and Germany.

They do obviously use artificial snow now and again, but that is not the same. Even the ambiance is out of kilter when one sees only a strip of snowy piste surrounded by green grass and fields. Sort of lessens the allure of watching it on television and let's face it, like any professional sport alpine skiing also relies on successful viewership for survival.

The only good side to this problem is that we can now see what our actions are doing to our planet in real time and hopefully it will make us change some questionable habits.

Biggi