I flew down the icy track of snow while Hrund swished rhythmically behind.
Bruce Berman, director of strategy and programs at Save the Harbor/Save the Bay, told the Guardian his organization has been keeping track of snow removal efforts.
Dark, glistening bands, which I realized later were the tracks of melting snow turned to ice, ran down every trunk and across the tops of each outspread branch.
At the 1988 Calgary Games, the Austrian team doctor Jorg Oberhammer was killed when he fell under the tracks of a snow-grooming machine.
In a study of two wolf packs tracked on snow in Alberta, Canada, Whittington et al. (2005) found that the use of roads and trails was negatively coupled with road density.
His colony was not merely tracking the advancement of snow melt and the earlier arrival of summer; it was also articulating a change in the very makeup of the Arctic itself -- the shrinking of the polar ice cap -- with all its potentially drastic worldwide consequences.
Snow vehicles did not yet exist however, and so his engineer Reginald Skelton developed the idea of a caterpillar track for snow surfaces.
But the objective, he said, was to avoid a repeat of the problems experienced during the 1996 snowstorm, when Metro-North ran many trains before the tracks were completely clear of snow.
For what promised to be two congenial nights in the wilderness, about as far away from it all as you can get in the lower 48 states — but with heat, electric light, a real bed, good food, wine and conversation, plus 1,000 acres of snow tracked only by deer, mountain lions and bears — Sierra had opted to play hooky from medical school at the University of Southern California.
