All this excitement over the snowslide made us crazy for more fun, and we decided that we would go to Madam Graaberg and ask her if she had white velvet to sell.
The only pleasant thing was that there came a tremendously big heavy snowslide right down on the little shoemaker, Jorgen.
Illustration: The only pleasant thing was that there came a tremendously big, heavy snowslide right down on the little shoemaker.
I was walking alone through the mountains on my way to Stewart, and wishing to cross the Marmot River, I took advantage of a great, permanent snowslide that had been annually added to by avalanches from the snow-capped glaciers.
First you start a snowslide down on us and then you snowball us.
By this time thesnowslide had reached the tree, and the mass was now much larger than at first.
When you're sent to cut through an icy rock or re-lay the steel across the gap a snowslide has made, it's obvious if you have done the job or not.
George told us how the snowslidecame down and filled the head of the gorge with stones and broken trees, and wash-outs wrecked the line you built along its side.
I've never seen a snowslide before, and I don't wish to see another one.
The snowslide left in its wake nothing but a wide belt of barren ground--even huge rocks had been torn away from the earth and hurtled on into the storm.
One time I found a bunch of sheep bones at the foot of a cliff lying all mixed up together, and I had an idea that maybe they'd been caught in a snowslide and killed there.
That's what they call a snowslide in Switzerland, I believe.
Down in the high mountains of Colorado I have seen some bad snowslides, and I knew a little fellow down there that used to carry the mail over the range that got caught in a snowslide once.
There was a snowslide too that buried their house and gave them some lively work to dig themselves out.
A snowslidehad come down that way, and its path was marked by willows and smaller trees.
Then, though his pulses throbbed, and he could feel his blood tingling, he fell to work systematically, groping about the excavation the dead man had made where the snowslide had rent apart the forest and scored out the rock for him.
But Joan laughingly remarked, "A snowslide wouldn't be any wilder than Julie's visit to old man Good Arrow in his castle.
They were climbing Mont Blanc when a snowslideswept them away into a deep crevasse.
The snowslide of some years before had covered up all outward signs of their work, struck down the trees they had blazed, and covered the ashes of their own camp fires.
Such directions as Rutheford had given his son had been unavailing because of the snowslide that had changed the contour of the little valley where the mine lay.
Hamil and a party of climbers were struck by a snowslide on the slope of Mont Blanc.
Fifty-seven years before my visit a fire had burned over about four thousand acres and was brought to a stand by a lake, a rocky ridge, and a wide fire-line that a snowslide had cleared through the woods.
Miners have been taken from their cabins dead in the trail of a snowslidethat swept the shack to the bottom of the valley without so much as a hair of their heads being injured.
Corpses are washed down in the spring floods; or the {5} thaw reveals a prospector's shack smashed by a snowslide under which lie two dead 'pardners.
The next July a camper in following the track of a snowslide came upon a three-legged mother grizzly and two cubs.
Another time a snowslide tore a big stump out by the roots and disclosed four skunks beneath.
A quarter of a mile back and to one side a snowslide mingled with gigantic rock fragments had swept down and demolished a part of a moraine and ruined a cony home.
Then evidence of an enormous snowslide came into view, and the footsteps went no farther.
His foot slipped and when he fell he started a small snowslide that carried him down.
One gets used to that, and resolution counts when you're fighting a snowslide or a flood; but we're up against another proposition now.
When it's quiet you hear the rivers and now and then a snowslide rolling down the hills.
Then the snowslide cut off the creek, and as the hollow dried out the willows spread across it.
