'OK, let's go,' says Sebastien, our guide, and we glide behind him through the perfect spring powder.
wintersessions.net, £65+ booking fee 9-15 April This lively seven-day event in the Rockies combines live music acts, ski and snowboard competitions (including the infamous world pond-skimming championships), and – if the past few years are anything to go by – spring powder days.
Different compressive stresses have been applied by the piston and a spring on the powder bed.
Her good spring coat was powder blue; her shoes were black and covered the insteps of her long feet".
In turn, add the noodles, omelette strips, bean sprouts, spring onions, shrimp powder, fish sauce, ketchup, lime juice, chilli and sugar, tossing constantly over high heat.
For years, developers have been claiming that this one or that one of their latest creations signalled the restoration of prewar elegance, but it usually turns out to mean that they sprang for a powder room.
When I arrive, in mid-January, the Alps have been blessed with a dusting of new snow; a stone's throw away in Chamonix, I can almost hear the rumble of ski boots as powder hunters spring from their bunks and rush out for the chance to make fresh tracks.
We wove through dense forest, every branch spring-loaded with fresh powder that had a tendency to collapse on me (whether some of these mishaps were intentional, only Lauren's conscience knows); skied across the open lakes under towering cliff faces draped with frozen waterfalls; and lunched alongside the semi-frozen Pétain Creek, with the blue-gray glacier lurking above us.
A long, needle-shaped firing pin, shot forward by a spring, pierced the cartridge and powder charge to detonate the primer.
Put the garlic, ginger, chilli, spring onion and remaining curry powder in one bowl, the vegetables in another and the meat in a third.
Pretty-boy Bradley Cooper, in his role as pretty-boy FBI agent Richie DiMaso, comes across as a short-fused powder keg — a spring as tightly coiled as the pin curlers he sports in one scene.
