Re: How do they put the ice on the luge/bobsleigh track?

Doc wrote:
Title pretty much says it. Is it iced and then put in place?

Also, are the luge/bobsleigh/skeleton tracks the same or different tracks?

Take a trip to Park City (or Lake Placid) and find out for yourself. :)

AFAIK, there's one track in Europe that is carved every Winter out of snow or ice pack. Every other one is a permanent, usually concrete, installation. Massive amounts of ammonia feed huge air conditioning plants to cool the surface, which is sprayed with water a layer at a time. It takes days/weeks to build the ice.

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