snow patch

"Unless we get high enough to find snow patches, we're seeing just about the last of the water."

Generally, the flight period begins when snow patches are still on the ground.

That afternoon they found a single footprint in one of these snow patches.

I saw Anna slow down to make sure of her traction on a snow patch.

The edges of the receding snow patches were busy places.

I saw nothing but the blank spread of muddy ground and dirty snow patches.

One of the rocks that had shown jagged black against the snow patches was no longer there!

Far off among the tree trunks I saw the white gleam of snow patches.

And the sun, while not really warm, seemed to concentrate in this cut so that a few of the snow patches were melting.

Puzzle Mountain is named for the maze of snow patches on its northeast face.

Perennial snow patches are stable for more than two years and also have bigger influence to surroundings.

There is high soil moisture around the snow patch that supports growing of specific vegetation.

Nivation is a collective name for the different processes that occur under a snow patch.

Other examples of persistent snow include the snow patches in Scotland.

Snow patches collected from deep pit holes were used even late in the 20th century to provide the few hamlets with water.

Snow patches often linger on the upper routes even in late summer so an ice axe should be considered.

The breezy summits and old snow patches will be favourite spots to lie on.

Following the left branch of the couloir, they reached a snow patch in the middle of the face.

The morning's sun had melted the snow patches that might have held tracks; he had no guide save chance.

In the last few years, however, the quantity and longevity of Cairngorm snow patches has declined significantly.

He ran among them, avoiding snow patches.

Glaciers and semipermanent snow patches have relatively low share flow volume of the main rivers.

The Cairngorms hold some of the longest-lying snow patches in Scotland.

It is also possible to find algae associated with rocks or living in the thin film of melted water in the snow patches.

Snow patch herb fields occur in places where snow remains for a large portion of the summer and are very rare.