Often the walls of such valleys are leaped by streams from some melting snowfield falling hundreds of feet and reaching the bottom as mere threads of spray.
From any high point west of lake Louise one can catch glimpses of a much larger snowfield towards the north near Mts.
The snowfield extended for five miles, from ten to seventy feet deep, much crevassed, and encumbered with avalanches.
Below lay the head of the Fox Glacier--a great snowfield encircled by mountains.
Looking up the glacier, we could see two rocky peaks which stand some miles above the head, but not the actual head of the glacier, or the snowfield which feeds it.
The Vale of Kashmir, which fromsnowfield to snowfield has a width of only ten to twelve miles, once enjoyed a great fame as the seat of the original paradise of the human race.
He put away the glass in the darkness, which now seemed to roll down upon them like a cloud from the mountains, giving the snowfield a ghastly look which made Bracy hesitate.
Bracy led on again, to find that the curve made by the snowfield rose more and more steeply, and the inclination to slip increased.
Surely we can go diagonally up the snowfield from here to the corner below the shoulder, and we shall save half a mile, at least!
Another fine snowfield in the Hardanger district is the Jökul, a splendid white dome, whose melting snows help to swell the Vöringfos.
A snowfield may exist without a glacier, but a glacier cannot exist without a snowfield--that is to say, the glacier is made by the snowfield.
Of course, the belief in the old popular legends is dying out even in Norway, but there are still some aged grandfathers and grandmothers living near the great snowfield who can tell the tales as they were told to them.
Thus the heavy precipitation which is usual in humid climates near the centers of lows would take place near the advancing margin of the snowfield and cause the field to expand still farther southward.
Hence when a snowfield is present in the north, the lows, instead of migrating much farther north in summer than in winter, as they now do, would merely crowd on to the snowfield a little farther in summer than in winter.
The fact that thesnowfield is always a place of relatively high pressure results in outblowing surface winds except when these are temporarily overcome by the passage of strong cyclonic storms.
As soon as a snowfield became somewhat extensive, it would begin to produce striking climatic alterations in addition to those to which it owed its origin.
Siberia would have had a temperature below freezing for at least nine months out of the twelve even if there were nosnowfield to keep the summers cold.
For example, within a snowfield the summers remain relatively cold.
When that occurred, the growth of the snowfield as well as of the ice cap must have been accelerated by glacial movement.
Where this is sufficient, the cold surface of the snowfields tends to produce a frozen fog whenever the snowfield is cooled by radiation, as happens at night and during the passage of highs.
There are the crevasses that made his track so devious; and there began the snowfield so hard and pleasant under foot in the early hours, so toilsome to wade through as the day advanced.
Snowfield succeeded snowfield, and at the end of each always shone the sky.
However, after having descended some distance, the slope no longer followed that direction and the snowfield rose again.
I'd stay longer, only I'm going back to Snowfield on Saturday, and I must be with my aunt to-morrow.
So Adam was consoled for the disappointment he had felt when Seth had come back from his visit to Snowfield and said "it was no use--Dinah's heart wasna turned towards marrying.
Yes, my aunt at Snowfield belonged to the Society, and I have cause to be thankful for the privileges I have had thereby from my earliest childhood.
You've quite made up your mind to go back to Snowfield o' Saturday, Dinah?
His feeling towards Dinah, the hope of passing his life with her, had been the distant unseen point towards which that hard journey from Snowfield eighteen months ago had been leading him.
The folks at Snowfieldhave learnt by this time to do better wi'out you nor she can.
Ah, I remember Snowfieldvery well; I once had occasion to go there.
Still the old woman was so slow of; speech and apprehension, that Hetty might be at Snowfield after all.
I reckon folks is different at Snowfield from what they are here.
Indeed, you will not miss me; and at Snowfield there are brethren and sisters in great need, who have none of those comforts you have around you.
No, I go back to Snowfieldon Saturday, and I shall have to set out to Treddleston early, to be in time for the Oakbourne carrier.
I think it's something passing the love of women as I feel for you, for I could be content without your marrying me if I could go and live at Snowfield and be near you.
The great snowfield overhead sparkled as if set with thousands and thousands of gold and silver stars.
The great snowfield sparkled in the bright sunlight, on the rocky peaks.
