Winter sports are in a dangerous situation - this snowboarder needs to safeguard their future

Two months before the Beijing Winter Olympics started, a couple hundred snow cannons were at that point working, siphoning out new powder to cover the slants of the Elevated Ski Place in Yanqing, around 56 miles from focal Beijing.
Beside these portions of flickering white snow, the mountains, which ascend to an elevation of in excess of 2,000 meters (6,500 feet), are dry and shrouded in earthy colored scour. Beijing 2022 will be the primary Winter Olympics to depend on the whole on counterfeit snow, which a few competitors have cautioned could make perilous, cold circumstances.

In any case, it's probably not going to be the last, as the environment emergency is contracting our winters. On the off chance that worldwide ozone harming substance discharges stay on the momentum direction, before the century's over, only one of 21 past Winter Olympics areas will have sufficient snow and ice to dependably have the Games, as per a new report by the College of Waterloo, in Canada. Among these areas is Squaw Valley, in the Sierra Nevada, California, which facilitated the Colder time of year Olympics in 1960. Presently known as Palisades Tahoe, it's one of the neighborhood resorts for proficient snowboarder Jeremy Jones. MTD

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A legend in enormous mountain freeriding - procuring Snowboarder Magazine's Large Mountain Snowboarder of the Year title multiple times - Jones has consumed quite a bit of his time on earth on top of mountains, as well as cutting down their steepest countenances with a splash of powder afterward. Over his three-decade vocation, he has seen the impacts of environmental change firsthand. Jones says he's seen it downpour on mountain tops during the coldest part of the year and watched glacial masses retreat over the long run. "Winters are many times beginning later, finishing prior and (there are) simply more limits of everything," he says. "We'll get a portion of a season of snow in three days and afterward have two months with no snow." Exploration recommends these unusual weather conditions give no indications of lessening and the seasons as we probably are aware them are in motion.

A new report in the diary Nature gauges that it very well may be just 35 years before winters in the western US routinely have low or no snow cover. A recent report by research firm Abt Partners and the College of Colorado, which took a gander at the effect of environmental change on winter sports in the US, proposes that by 2050 the ski season will be sliced down the middle for most locales.
Needing his grandkids and extraordinary grandkids to have the option to encounter frigid winters, Jones felt a sense of urgency to act. "I was seeing changes to winter and it impacted my way of life," he says. "In any case, after some time I began to see that the impacts are far more prominent than my way of life. It's my work, however this large number of mountain networks based around winter and snow."