To experience the beautiful environment of snow-light skiing first hand, aim to visit the Cascades next year, right around this time.

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The snow looks beautiful in the winter sunlight, like a giant meringue curling from the rooftops.

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Yesterday I woke to find snow capping the beautiful Sangre De Cristo mountains that Santa Fe lies beneath.

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But, the cold aside, snow-covered Samso was undeniably beautiful and its wind-reliant residents hospitable and, in their own way, just a little heroic.

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Sights you can expect to gawk at in awe on your voyage include a variety of points on the Antarctic Peninsula, the South Shetland Islands, a whole mess of seals, four different types of penguins and a starkly beautiful panorama of unforgiving rock, ice, and snow.

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It was quiet now, no talk, no sound, only the silent continuum of snow at the window and I wanted to make her see how beautiful it was, if not always, then at least for now, but when I turned around she was asleep in her chair, her head flopped back, her arms dangling at her sides.

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Speaking of skiing, JPL is a thirty-minute ride from Marmot Basin, a fantastically beautiful ski mountain with nine lifts, a 3, 000-foot vertical drop and superior snow conditions.

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