Snow Arch

Step 8: What goes up, must come down

Watch how the arch changes shape over the one hour of it's life. We noticed where our weak spots were and how a curve that is not perfect is an arch in danger. Check out the final photos and video. The video is the last eight minutes of the arch's life. Each second is about one minute, until the crash. Be sure to watch the slow motion reverse crash. :)

Enjoy your arch making!

Snow Arch from Paul Maiorana on Vimeo.

Comments

[jcksparr0w]

reminds me of the old game arch rival. am definitely going to try this winter!!

[bassclarinet23]

Great while it lasted? You need wet snow probably.

[bono80kuriks]

 i was thinking if it's cold enough you could slowly pour water on it, and hope it'll ice up and stay in place... It's supposed to snow a lot this week where i live, and i'm hoping to make an igloo version of this

[thing 2]

You should make it so
that one of the blocks has a stick with string around it!

So that when someone walks under it *yank* it all falls on top of them!