Eventually, it succumbed to the elements and was buried under years of snowdrift.
But this is like looking for a contact lens in a snowdrift.
Although winds are not as strong in the Arctic as in alpine tundras, their influence on snowdrift patterns and whiteouts is an important climatic factor.
Some were provisional: while Theon/Reek and Sansa seemed to agree silently on a suicide pact, it seems safe to assume their fall was broken by a snowdrift.
By that I don't mean she wears pink all-in-one ski-suits, or that she needs help getting into chairlifts, or that she bursts into tears when she falls face-first into a snowdrift.
On a cloudy day, however, as I can attest, it's much like sitting in a snowdrift, admittedly a warm one with soft leather seating, an endless supply of wine and the faint tinkle of Schubert in the background.
His drinking had alienated him from his peers and he was a liability: he accidentally set fire to his apartment with a neglected cigarette, passed out in a snowdrift having forgotten to take his medication, started fights and got thrown out of restaurants.
Vertbaudet Ski Boots: £17.25, vertbaudet.co.uk The rock-solid soles and toes may not suit all kids, but if your young ruffian loves nothing more than to kick his way through every snowdrift then they're a bargain.
We find a snowdrift and then begin shovelling more snow on top until we have a roughly piled dome in the fading light.
His grieving… Out of the snowdrift Which covered it, this pillared Sundial starts to lift, Able now at last To let its frozen hours Melt into the… In this great form, as Dante proved in Hell, There is no dreadful thing that can't be said In passing.
The bad news was that Dorado, a five-year-old husky belonging to the rookie musher Paige Drobny, got buried in a snowdrift while ostensibly in the care of vets at Unalakleet Airport, on Norton Sound, and died of asphyxiation, the first Iditarod death since 2009.
