Climate change and fewer children threaten to kill snow sports – Lahti Ski Museum presents winter activities

People in topsuits are still getting excited about snowsports, even as winters become more fragmented. Finnish children still enjoy the snow better than children in other countries.

In the new exhibition at the Lahti Ski Museum, you can play in a snowball fight, crawl into a snow castle, build icicles under the eaves of the building and see what you can find under the snow in spring.

For children, the exhibition offers plenty to do, while older visitors can reminisce about winters of the past, but also reflect on the impact of climate change on the environment.

Exhibition Manues Susanna Korhonen examines wooden ice sticks at the Lahti Ski Museum Lumi Exhibition — Exhibition assistant Susanna Korhonen tests a popsicle stick structure. At some point, the wooden stick falls off the edge of the window frame like its icy counterpart.

Each year is different, but the variation in snowfall that we have seen this winter will have to be adapted to in the future.

Fragmentation is becoming more common.

– It is unlikely that the snow will disappear completely. It rains every now and then during the winter, at times quite abundant, but it sometimes melts away. At the same time, the temperature rises and the rainfall increases.

Snowplaying in change

The researcher fears that as climate change progresses, Finland will be divided. As the snow border retreats to the north, the south is left without the nature of nature and, as a result, the centuries -old tradition of snow clips threatens.

As early as the 1960s and 70s, there were many children and play communities large. Children learn to play with their bigger ones and each other.

– There were players in the yards from five -year -old to fifteen years old. Now there are fewer children. An adult is needed to help and as a role model to move the play tradition.

Downhill skiing equipment at the Ski Museum Snow Exhibition — Ski slope throughout the decades in the showcase. Little My Menoplayer The tray is also included.

Snow games have remained a hobby for quite young children. Bigger leisure time is competing with smart devices, computer games and guided hobbies.

In addition to the players but also snowflakes, for example, Nyman’s attention has decreased

– In addition to snow, snow games require space and free play, he sums up.

Dense construction, narrow yards and lack of space do not encourage it.

A top suit is a snow climber’s best friend

A positive nature and snow relationship is built as a child. Finnish children have many benefits to many other countries.

Harri Nyman refers to a Japanese study conducted ten years ago, according to which Finnish children enjoy the longest time over the comparison countries, including frost. The control countries included Canada, Japan and China.

One of the reasons Nyman says clothing.

– The kids knew what to do outside and had good overalls.

Throughout the decades, the sleeping bag and the outer overalls have been included in the maternity pack, which is distributed to newborns families. Babies are anesthetized outdoors in the yards and balconies. Nothing elsewhere in the world is done.

The child and the launchy peek at the wooden snow castle doorway at the Ski Museum Snow Exhibition

The black country does not attract the outdoor play, but children can take all the joy out of the snow when it finally rains.

The field often asks children what they have played on weekends. If enough snow has come, children have made snow castles or snowmen and other characters, for example.

– And if there is a suitable snowstorm, you want to climb it right away.