Managed to tick off May skiing on my local hill this evening, was quite nice in the sunshine. Even if they took most of the snow to a massive pile and covered it. Damn snow hoarders! Although I suppose it will help the season's start next winter... in any case, June will be a challenge.
There's an article about the stored snow in Helsingin Sanomat. There's a Finnish company, Snow Secure, that is specialized on snow storage solutions. First year's storage is 50-100K "introductory price" :-)
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Here's the actual left snow, outside the pile:
Video of the skiing:
(Original source video is also available here.)
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