snowfield

• “By dawn I was at the first snowfield, which had a good track in it.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Summit Meetings

• “Our options were further limited by the fact that we need four-wheel drive — the Taconic, our preferred route upstate, is double the fun in a blizzard and the driveway of our house is essentially a snowfield until someone remembers to plow us out.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Life on Four Wheels

• “Standing on a snowfield far from any city as oceans of 10-degree air flow from the north, one can peer into the disc of the galaxy as if from space.”

  The Wall Street Journal: The Fire We Tend Against Winter

• “It is a curious source of pleasure to stand on the bridge and look up at the snowfield in the distant mountains and know that is where the stream begins.”

  Simon & Schuster: Bird Cloud

• “Above us we still had a steep, loose snowfield to cross and a large overhanging cornice to surmount before summiting — both of which would prove to be the hardest climbing of the route.”

  The Wall Street Journal: A Long and Slippery Slope

• “Located in the Elk range just west of Aspen, Snowmass is known primarily for it's permanent snowfield (thus the name) and being very remote.”

  alanarnette.com

• “They slept in unheated tents on a snowfield smooth as a starched shirt.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Mining for Cold, Hard Facts

• “From Independencia, we traverse a long snowfield, then up steep snow to the base of the Canaletta at 22,100 feet.”

  The Huffington Post: James M. Clash: Summit Day Suffering on 23,000 ft. Aconcagua

• “In fact, it's kind of fun to imagine some other intelligence peering down through their telescopes at our blue-white orb, trying to make sense of these giant images suddenly spreading across snowfield and desert and lagoon.”

  The Huffington Post: Jamie Henn: Can art save the climate? 350 EARTH

• “So if the heavens do not open up and snow for you, then turn your own home into a snowfield.”

  Christmas Decorations from Giftwarp

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