That is the time for the best fun,--skating and coasting by moonlight when the snowfields and the ice-bound shores glisten like the most wonderful fairyland you can possibly imagine.
Even the little folks learn how to use snow-shoes, and with these on their feet, they skim over the crusted snowfieldslike the wind.
That rustic arch, with letters bold Against the summit snowfields cold, Has power to wing my fancy far To this split streamlet's furthest bar.
Winter Sunset in the Cascade Range Picture a world of snowfields Aglow in the sunset light, Great fir trees snow-flake laden And broken clouds piled white; While bathed in a silver sheen The pines on a crest are seen.
So late as August, when I crossed, there were four perfect snow bridges over the Bhaga, and snowfields thirty-six feet deep along its margin.
The snowfields in the gullies stand out more and more clearly, but still only the summit is visible, floating as it were free above the earth, a vision among the clouds.
It is formed by the Yarkand-darya and the Khotan-darya on the south, and receives other affluents along its course, for water streams down from the snowfields and glaciers of the wreath of mountains enclosing Eastern Turkestan.
I dismounted and led her to the spring, where she knelt and bathed her face in the water, cold from the melting snowfields above.
For two hours they drove eastward across the snowfields under a gray cloud filmed sky.
But a careful scanning of the bleak snowfields failed to disclose any sign of life.
For weeks our heroes journeyed on towards the Pole, but they came to the end of what McBain called the snowfields at last, and all farther progress by sledge was practically at an end.
We passed the morning upon the mound, in the little open summer-house, face to face with the airy snowfields which we had scaled to their topmost vaulting, with the cavernous recesses which we had penetrated to their inmost core.
We are standing on the southern slopes of Caucasus, with a wide belt of hill and ridge behind us, and, beyond and far above such familiar natural features, the white serrations and air-borne snowfields of the inmost chain.
The vaulting is less pronounced upon the west than on the east, and ascends through a succession of snowfields to the highest point of the dome.
To the south rose the singular range in shades of yellowish-red and scarlet, pink, and light brown, and fantastic precipitous rocks stood out between soft snowfields of a glistening bluish tinge.
The sky was clear, and blue as the purest turquoise from Nishapur, but the wind swept bitterly cold over the snowfields a night old.
Good day, Abdullah," I said to him, for I immediately recognized the honest fellow who had helped me up over the snowfields of the Zoji-la on the former occasion.
We find them abounding in the district of Mont Blanc; and all the monarch's attendant aiguilles, with the splintered ridges enclosing the great snowfields in the heart of the chain, consist mostly of these two rocks.
They seemed pyramids of solid fire; while here and there long stretches of crimson light drawn over the higher snowfields linked the glorified summits together.
Occasionally a soft lambent glow has been observed on snowfields at night.
The snowfields on high ranges of mountains are of a dazzling whiteness; and their bright glare is so great as to distress the eyes of those who walk over them without blue glasses, and even to cause inflammation.
Try to think for a moment what would happen if instead of being, as it were, locked up in the form of snowfields and glaciers, the water were all in the liquid form.
Upon the higher declivities and summits, snowfields and glaciers abound, as in the Alps; and even in some of the passes these phenomena are encountered.
If the streams have their sources in snowfields or glaciers there is a more uniform run-off, and a ribbon of pasture may extend to the snowline.
The extent of the snowfields is extraordinary in view of the low latitude, 13° S.
In neither case is there the faintest sign of a bergschrund; the gradients seem so well adjusted to the thickness and rate of movement of the snow from point to point that the marginal crack found in many snowfields is absent.
A third condition outside the hypothesis and contradictory to it is the absence of a bergschrund in snowfields at many valleys heads where cirques are well developed!
Further, the matterhorns of the Cordillera Vilcapampa are not bare but snow-covered, vigorous glaciers several miles in length and large snowfields still survive and the divides are not arêtes but broad ridges.
In the Cordillera Vilcapampa vast snowfieldsand glacier systems were spread out over a summit area as broad as the Southern Appalachians.
Our questions are answered at once by the indisputable facts that many schrunds occur well toward the upper limit of snow, and that many cirques exist whose snowfields are not at all broken by schrunds.
The present snowfieldsand glaciers are shown by dotted contours.
We may at once accept the conclusion that the invariable association of the cirques and steepened profiles with snowfields proves that snow is the predominant modifying agent.
Only peaks like Coropuna and Solimana near the western border now bear or ever bore snowfields and glaciers.
The more the valley is changed in form the more it tends to change still further in form because of deepening snowfields until cliffed pinnacles and matterhorns result.
I have estimated that the total area of snow-free surface about the snowfields of the one is to that of the other as 2:3.
While one gazes entranced at the array of lakes and valleys, of snowfields and dark cliffs, the wind rises and mountains to the west put on a cap of cloud.
They consist of slightly rounded domes or billowy snowfields of vast thickness.
The glaciers which stream off from these snowfields are often of vast extent, e.
The snowfields are of themselves of immense interest, but so intimately are they connected with the glaciers that we shall speak of the two together.
And now beyond the huge projecting shoulder of the Alpe d'Arpitetta the rays of the newly-risen sun were flooding the snowfields with a golden radiancy.
No shadow was across their path any more than upon the dazzling snowfields lying aloft in pure and unbroken stretches.
No other parts of the Rocky Mountains, south of Alaska, have glaciers and snowfields which may compare in size or extent with those of the Waputehk Range.
The guide raised the ice-axe, which never seemed to leave his side, and pointed out the route he meant to take, with the difficulties likely to be encountered among the great snowfields which clothed the giant's sides.
Then, if we do not find crystals, I can take you round by the cornice, and over or round one of the snowfields home.
The lower points of the snowfieldscome into sight below the clouds.
They are as transparent as glass, and through one of them the image of Gurla Mandatta's bright white snowfields is refracted as in a magnifying glass.
The mountain spurs project, dark and rugged, into the valley like huge sarcophagi, and on them rest moon-lighted snowfields like shrouds.
From all corners of the ice mantle and the snowfields foaming brooks hurry down to the river.
Water from melting snowfields pours down the steep slopes.
But when the sun set, the western sky glowed with purple flames, and the cold glaciers and snowfields were thrown up by a background of fire.
In the growing light of dawn the mountain, with its snowfields and glaciers, had shown silvery white and cold; but now!
Hurricanes from the south prevail here; fine red dust from weathered sandstone flies like clouds of blood through the valley and colours the snowfields red.
Facing me was a mighty wall of mountains--all the highest peaks of the Southern Alps, giants of nine to twelve thousand feet, with snowy summits and great snowfields and buttresses of naked rock.
The Franz Josef Glacier is three-quarters of a mile wide and eight miles long, and flows to within six hundred feet of sea level, it is fed by another smaller glacier, and by vast snowfields lying among the mountains at its head.
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