I'd topped a fold and begun the last scramble to my truck when something streaked across the snowfield a hundred yards in front of me. |
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From under the granular crust of a subalpine snowfield sprang forth life as tender and fresh as a butterfly's newly unfolded wings. |
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During my isolation, I was presented with a image of a Thunderbird formed by the shadow of a cloud on a snowfield atop a nearby mountain. |
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The only way to descend without slipping is to dig in heel-first, like a mountaineer coming down a snowfield. |
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Astonishingly, more than 200 climbers were threading their way up the steep snowfield on that last weekend in May. |
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Their habitat is similarly varied, ranging from rainforest to snowfield to hot desert fringe. |
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From where we stood, thick black hoses ran like wiring up across a snowfield, snaking in the distance over makeshift supports. |
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The photographs showed that weather conditions near the site appeared to be clear, and that cloud obscured some of the ridges on the snowfield. |
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The accident site is located at an elevation of 6,500 feet asl, on the west side of a north-to-south oriented snowfield on the Mackie glacier. |
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A mountain rescuer, who was wearing a bulky but lightweight vacuum mattress pack on his back, was deployed on to a snowfield from a hover. |
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I loved to watch the deer pick their way across the vast snowfield that used to be a golf course, eager for the apples and sunflower seeds we put out for them. |
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Doug gave the ICE2001 team a short course on safe and efficient techniques for loading and unloading equipment in slings under the difficult conditions of a high-altitude snowfield. |
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The plane could land on the vast snowfield to the collar of the Dome. |
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A Charlap signature is the abrupt interruption of a sedate passage with an explosive percussive burst that has the glistening texture of sunlight on a snowfield. |
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Riding up the chairlift, I looked back hungrily across the canyon, at the vast untracked south face of Superior, and then followed the ridgeline east, until I saw a lone figure ascending a pristine snowfield. |
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Great destruction also can result when ash collects on a high snowfield or glacier, melting large quantities of ice into a flood that can rush down a volcano's slopes as an unstoppable mudflow. |
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The decay process, like all hindered energy transformations, may be analogized by a snowfield on a mountain. |
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