But on stormy days when wind-whipped snow bites at a skier's face, Mount Rainier and its spectacular entourage of peaks disappears.

A fresh gust of wind-whipped snow blew shut the tiny window of clarity and she felt the space narrow.

A third look told her that the white plume from the broad summit was not wind-whipped snow, but steam.

All around us were broad patches of wind-whipped snow, hard black earth, and equally black boulders.

It hung in the icy air, like the wind-whipped snow that blanketed much of poet Gwendolyn Brooks's Chicago.

Wild gusts of wind-whipped snow pelted them as they ran into the backyard.

There were perhaps 10,000 fans in the stadium when the game began in a wind-whipped snow.

The scarp was right before them, lit with a pillar of blue Fire that flickered eerily on the cloud-bottoms and turned the wind-whipped snow to a blizzard of blue sparks.

The black night swirled wind-whipped snow through mist that tasted of salt.

The foursome, their flashlights turned on, plodded through the deepening dusk and wind-whipped snow.