Newsletter #7 - IDE All Weather Snowmaker Demonstration for Sochi 2014

Winter Olympic Games (Pitztal, July 2010)

A special demonstration of All Weather Snowmaker has been performed at Pitztal Glacier Ski
Resort in Tirol, Austria for visiting Russian delegation on July 9th. The event has been organized
by IDE Technologies and Roskommunenergo (IDE's official distributor in Russia) with the help of
Pitztal Glacier Ski Resort during a pre-season operation of IDE All Weather Snowmaker. 

The event was honored by senior representatives of Russian Federation President Office, Sochi
2014 Supervisory Board and Organizing Committee, Russian Olympic Committee (ROC),
International Ski Federation (FIS), Russian Ski and Snowboarding Federation, Russian Cross
Country Ski Federation, Russian Biathlon Federation, Russian Freestyle Federation, Olympstroy,
the Olympic Ski Resorts of Gazprom Sotsinvest, Krasnaya Polyana and Rosa Khutor, New
League, Rosengineering and leading International Ski experts and consultants.
A slope of fresh snow of 0.6m deep, 20m wide and almost 200 meters long has been prepared for
the event. Many of the guests, including professional ski experts, tested the snow and enjoyed
summer skiing and snowboarding at ambient temperature of above 25 ºC.

All visitors and experts were extremely satisfied with the quality of the snow and they have
declared that the snow was excellent for alpine ski, snowboarding, cross country, biathlon, ski
jump and freestyle.

The Supervisory Board and Organizing Committee of Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic Games would
like to secure the availability of high quality snow for all international winter sport competitions
scheduled in Sochi from 2011 toward the 2014 Winter Olympic Games, and onward.
The importance of the snow availability for Olympic Venues was demonstrated in Cypress,
Canada during the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games where temperatures were too high for
snowmaking by conventional snow guns. VANOC had to spend millions of dollars on helicopters
and tracks to secure the Olympic Venues

Mr. Alexey Povkh – Head of Sport Complex Development Department, Olympstroy:
"Artificial snow quality reminds of spring snow and may be used for the cross country and
alpine skiing slopes.

Mr. Georgiy Kadykov – Sport Manager Cross Country Organizing Committee of Sochi 2014 and
Vice President of Russian Cross Country Ski Federation:
"I liked it a lot. The conditions here are really very similar to the spring conditions in Alps…
This is snow!"