The picture was so fuzzy I couldn't tell which was the ball and which was snow.
LISTENING I water-ski off Washington's Olympic Peninsula and when you get in that cold water, which was snow on the mountains just three weeks ago, you really need something to get you up and get you going.
I watched this couple for a minute or two, and then I advanced to the next channel, which was snowed out unless you paid for it.
I bathed, as he did, in the blue streams that tumble off the high peaks, the water of which was "snow-cold, brutal and revivifying".
"There's a logic in favouring budget destinations this season," he says, "but for March and Aprilwe'll need the more expensive, high-altitude resorts, which are snow-sure".
Found only along the divide between the Yangtze and Mekong rivers in the southern Chinese province of Yunnan, it lives at elevations up to 4,000 metres in mainly coniferous forests, which are snow-covered for much of the year.
Can also be Photographers (see #7), by dint of Instagram shots of stopped traffic, empty supermarket shelves, outdoor thermometers which are snow-capped and icicle-adorned, and car dashboards with frightening temperature read-outs.
But at least two other types of snow have been spotted here by competitors: salted snow, which is wet snow that has been seeded with salt or chemicals to make it firmer, and sugary snow, which is a spring snow with big crystals.
The morning after the run-through, she finally called Lynne Meadow, the artistic director of Manhattan Theater Club, which is producing "Snow Geese" with MCC Theater.
Males use lowland meadows during the spring, which is when snow melts and green grass appears.
