This is an awesome picture. For some reason my brain can’t accept it without more context. I have no idea if OP would be able to answer. But is it off season? Do they clean it during on season? Is it abandoned? If none of those do people ride it like that?
I found it on Wikimedia.
https://twistedsifter.com/2014/11/snow-covered-ski-lift-in-sweden/ Photographer: Anders Carlsson
I'm from Sweden but I haven't been there specifically, I pieced together from some sparse clues that there are times when hell literally freezes over on top of Åreskutan and life just seizes to happen for a while.
The ice on the lift would have happened fairly quickly. Sometimes overnight if the humidity is high enough.
In English it’s called Rime Ice which happens as fog (or a cloud in this case) freezes as it condenses on cold surfaces.
It’s really beautiful, but a huge pain in the ass for lift operators since each chair will need a significant amount of beating to clean it off.
I’ve never seen it this thick in person, but I’ve been to the tops of lots of mountains where it’s pretty common.
They look like poorly AI-generated ghosts of Pacman.
