Go wrap Your head in the snowy rivers of the Brooks Range.
The mountains are the headwaters to the country's three best-known rivers, the Murray, the Murrumbidgee and the Snowy rivers.
The lines were a succinct rendering of Nicholas Hughes, a man who joyously devoted his career to the study of fish in Alaska's snowy rivers and whose home, a handsome 2,800-square-foot 2,800-square-foot 2,800-square-foote and bircabinaced tonard the distant Brooks Range.
After a snowy winter the river rose quickly.
Climate change effects on the timing of peak winter spring (June to November) snowmelt discharges for the highest elevation gauged catchments in Australia are pronounced with average shifts toward earlier peak discharges of 6.2 and 4.0 days per decade for the Snowy and Geehi Rivers, respectively.
Set in Colorado during the Gold Rush, it follows a band of hapless prospectors over river and snowy mountain as they sing, dance and synchronize-swim their way to their anthropophagic doom.
The opening sequence, in which Gideon is shot in the arm and tumbles down a snowy mountainside into a river that carries him over a waterfall, out of which he miraculously pulls himself to shore, sets the bar high for visceral adventure.
Evidence of local tourism in Chitral, an unspoilt paradise of lush green valleys, snowy peaks and glacial rivers, is not hard to spot.
In Victoria, predicted heavy rain in East Gippsland failed to fall, although minor flood warnings are in force for the Snowy, Cann and Genoa rivers.
All along the way, beneath soaring peaks and snowy meadows, streams and rivers can be seen empty or diminished across long sections in which their flow has been diverted into canals, tunnels and turbines.
