Sentences with word «snowdrift»

In late fall, pregnant mother polar bears build cozy dens in snowdrifts.

On Arctic survival with the Canadian Air Force, I learned that the winds were so consistent that the Inuit used the direction of snowdrifts for guides even under «white out» conditions.

He wandered through 15 - foot snowdrifts in freezing temperatures for seven days before National Guard searchers found him.

A snowstorm is featured on the Akmir Snowdrift map and a crusher (which the player can control) is featured in the Mawlr Graveyard.

My mom was having her first home birth (me) and labored for 28 hours, taking walks through the high snowdrifts with my dad.

Wintertime brings the occasional freeze, but you won't have to worry about battling six - foot deep snowdrifts when you head out the door.

In northern California, the resort owners got a blizzard instead of a rain squall; and Alex Cushing, proprietor of Squaw Valley, reported riding up on the lift with a man who was cheerfully unconcerned with the lack of room at the lodge because he had already dug a slit trench in a Sierra snowdrift for himself and his sleeping bag.

Surrounded by the Andes Mountains of Peru, Machu Picchu is dominated by majestic Salkantay (6,271 m), the highest snowdrift mountain in the Cordillera de Vilcanota (Vilcanota range).

Woodlands are restricted to lowlands not exceeding 135 m above sea level (a.s.l.) and krummholz extend to 165 m a.s.l. Krummholz are damaged by snowdrift action although these stands regenerated after fire when conditions were favourable for seedling establishment (Payette et al. 1989a, b; Asselin & Payette 2005b).

In her PhD thesis, Miina Auttila, MSc, created a method for building human - made snowdrifts, which proved to be successful in improving seals» breeding success during winters with poor snow conditions.

But then trudging over snowdrifts, with the typewriter resting on her belly, she went into labor.

Metroid Prime's Phendrana Drifts is a cold, hostile place, composed of heavy snowdrifts and frozen lakes.

No snow tires and 10 foot high snowdrifts blocking my driveway.

Huge snowdrifts buried houses and trains, and 200 ships sank in waves whipped up by fierce winds.»

Leinenkugel's ® Snowdrift Vanilla Porter ® is a fuller - bodied beer brewed with roasted malts for a flavor with hints of cocoa, coffee and caramel.

In the early 80's, we used Snowdrift shortening (a Hunt - Wesson brand), but can't find it nowadays.

In essence, instead of flowing around stars like water past a stone, some of the gas and dust bunches up against stellar winds like vast snowdrifts.

The blizzard lashed at the men digging out a giant red bus - tank hybrid out of snowdrifts on the Antarctic Peninsula.

The comedy loses its edge, and the horror never rises to the occasion of even mild suspense, despite pounding from an attic that should be empty, and the way people find themselves swept under snowdrifts with barely time to yell for help.

The views are simply out of this world, though, and the baby Jeep mastered all hurdles with aplomb — until we arrived at the aforementioned snowdrift.

I just read about the GT3 / snowdrift issue - ouch!

Why do I make fake snowdrifts around a dying tree in my sunny California living room and -LSB-...]

Charles Frew and Sheila Anderson in British Columbia had both imported Pargeter stock, and the Rowans in New Brunswick had imported Kilspindie Snowdrift from the USA.

You journey along this snowy expanse, passing mountains and snowdrifts before you stop at the dramatic Athabasca Falls.

Overwhelmed by the cold snowdrifts and the calm silence as the wind howls, you search abandoned houses for any clues and supplies that may aid you while trying to stay as warm as possible.

Natural phenomena such as snowdrifts or sand dunes inspire me greatly for future works in thatch, they are natural accumulations shaped by the forces of nature that are entirely unique to the place where they take shape.

When we first bought our 1930 house, a little snowdrift would form in the attic during winter northeasters as winds found an entry through some crevice that was unremarkable at any other time.

Surprisingly comfortable, that is, even though the Tacoma feels like it can bull through snowdrifts, cross raging rivers and leap tall buildings in a single bound.

«This winter, I had the opportunity to walk with a group that spent the entire time skating along slippery sidewalks and romping in snowdrifts.

Great blizzards had roared in off the Atlantic, burying roads and cottages in deep snowdrifts.

Whether pounding snowdrifts into submission or coasting down the freeway, our Jeep Limited has all the creature comforts you'll need to keep that smile on your face.

Here's the journey that takes us behind the walls of Jules Verne's Amiens estate, into the back alleys of Hong Kong, onto the grounds of a Ceylon tea plantation, through storm - tossed ocean crossings and mountains blocked by snowdrifts twenty feet deep, and to many more unexpected and exotic locales from London to Yokohama.

On Aug. 29 he pushed for the top, only to turn back due to heavy snowdrifts.

They also shot on location at Mt. Rainier, where 30 - foot snowdrifts made for the most arduous and exhausting shoot of Mitchum's career.

The inevitable giant inflatable rat loomed gray against the snowdrifts.

Note her red kerchief, the snowdrift in her hair.

Too much time given to «taut» dialogue, frozen blood, and the slice of Vernon Slone's knife, and you begin to long for snowdrifts and hungry - eyed wolves.

I stuck a couple kouign - amann in my purse in case I got stranded in a snowdrift.

At the end of townwe mount a snowdrift, enter the timber and trudge toward the high country.

About30 people remain to face the winter, a violent time that lasts for nine months.A ski school operates here in July, and from November till June, Highway 212, the only road through the valley, ends in a snowdrift at the end of town.

a Reno Bighorn called as Davis peered into the snowdrifts.

The wind had blown it half a mile away and piled it all up against a fence, like a snowdrift.»

A dining room table became a delivery bed, a kitchen oven warmed towels for swaddling clothes and a flashlight provided the surgical light for the birth of an 8 - pound boy Tuesday night to a couple trapped in their Lake County, Ind., home by 12 - foot snowdrifts.

Ragazzi cribs are available in caramella, cherry, snowdrift and rubbed black finishes.