Re:Sweden clears snow-covered walkways before roads (2018)
by tallanvor on Friday January 21, 2022 @06:42AM
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Sadly that seems to be the norm in Scandinavia. Oslo has the same problem (although they don't even try to prioritize sidewalks). They simply plow the bulk of the snow off the sidewalks and they might lay down gravel. It leaves significant slick spots and really you're just counting down the days until you take a tumble.
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Re:Sweden clears snow-covered walkways before roads (2018)
by Filligree on Friday January 21, 2022 @07:30AM
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There are ways to walk on that without needing to worry. If you grow up in Scandinavia, at least in the north, you might go years without so much as slipping.
On the other hand, if I had a dollar for the number of times I bruised myself as a child I'd be a rich man.
Re:Sweden clears snow-covered walkways before roads (2018)
by 988747 on Friday January 21, 2022 @09:16AM
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Can you share the trick? I'm slipping quite often these days :(
Re:Sweden clears snow-covered walkways before roads (2018)
by Filligree on Friday January 21, 2022 @10:26AM
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Get the spikes. I'm not sure there's any 'trick' that's learnable without growing up there.
Essentially it's about walking without ever putting your feet down such that they apply lateral force to the ground, however. Do that right, and it doesn't matter how slippery it is.
...and then you also can't apply force, so you can't walk. The hard part is to automatically test the ground you're standing on, ramping up the force fast enough to make progress, without thereby slipping. It's so automatic, I can't explain how or why it works. I suspect it's getting done in the spinal column, even.