Also see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPxAvHdrK6U for a nice video. Although not as much snow, there are still locations in Norway where you can find similar conditions.
How to Clear a Path Through 60 Feet of Snow, Japanese Style
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#72Earlier quoted context omitted.
Your linked photo hardly looks like a road.
It's more of a trail. It's the northern pass over the Henrys, a BLM road. I got stuck right about here: https://goo.gl/maps/ZcNVUUhgJQ12
My first intuition was to drop a street view person on the map there. In retrospect, this was silly.
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#74“I remember when I was in high school there was a lot more snow,” says Tanikawa, who is now 50. “In the morning snow fell and it would fall all day while we were at school. When I came back home there would be 40 to 50 centimeters of snow to clear.”
“My children,” Tanikawa adds, “have not had that experience.”
And he had to walk 10 km uphill both ways to and from school, I'll bet.
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#75I would love to see that first bulldozer at work. I'm a little amazed because snow becomes incredibly heavy and hard to move/push when it's packed. As the blade moves forward, that dozer will quickly have to use incredible force to move forward. I experienced this first-hand last summer when I was driving my old Land Rover across the country. I was solo, way up in the very remote Henry Mountains [1] of Utah, about to…
One of the reasons to put tracks on a vehicle is to reduce the pressure it exerts on the ground. A bulldozer might weigh 15x as much as light truck, but if it has 75x the contact area, it would have (much!) lower ground pressure, and would be dramatically less prone to sinking into snow or mud or what-have-you. Some sanity checks: 1993 Toyota 4Runner / Hilux Surf: 25 psi ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground_pressur…
5 psi doesn't seem like much at all! I wonder if that's a pressure survivable by a human.
Re: How to Clear a Path Through 60 Feet of Snow, Japanese Style
#76I'm looking at the vertical sides of the cut, and I'm really surprised it doesn't collapse. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angle_of_repose
Want to see more about supposedly impossible angles of repose in sand?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0olpSN6_TCc&list=PL4jYkQtnRH...
Re: How to Clear a Path Through 60 Feet of Snow, Japanese Style
#77Earlier quoted context omitted.
One of the reasons to put tracks on a vehicle is to reduce the pressure it exerts on the ground. A bulldozer might weigh 15x as much as light truck, but if it has 75x the contact area, it would have (much!) lower ground pressure, and would be dramatically less prone to sinking into snow or mud or what-have-you. Some sanity checks: 1993 Toyota 4Runner / Hilux Surf: 25 psi ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground_pressur…
5 psi doesn't seem like much at all! I wonder if that's a pressure survivable by a human.
Likely depends on how many square inches of the human are covered, and where on the human they are located.
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#79Human ingenuity never stops amazing me.
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#80Earlier quoted context omitted.
The repetition makes sense to me because it works in both languages. Mt. Tate would confuse locals. Mt. Tateyama satisfies the need to make it "english" and also works in Japanese because they can just ignore the Mt. part.
But people are fine with Mount Fuji... Incidentally, most people are also fine dropping the "Mount" prefix for Everest, Kilimanjaro amongst others...
Mt Fuji works because of the historical context. There are plenty of words and loan words now that would be different if they were translated using best practices today.
I for one am fine with dropping the Mt prefix. Most of the people mountains are named after are dead now so there is no need to disambiguate them.
I have spent a lot of time thinking about this issue; signposts here translate e.g. 長良川 as Nagaragawa River. I thought it was silly, but if you talked about the "Nagara" I bet 100 yen that you will get a sideways look.