Or you can try the Snowy Mountain Winter Village that offers two hours of dog sledding and a bunch of activities like snow shoeing and tobogganing.

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By contrast, this past winter was a snowy one, luring skiers and snowboarders back to the slopes.

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MANCHESTER, New Hampshire (CNN) -- Subjecting oneself to the snowy, frigid rigors of winter in New Hampshire -- not to mention the ritual abuse and humiliation that comes with running for elected office -- is a pastime only for the hardy.

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Cloud: Our first winter in Minnesota was cold but not too snowy.

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Under snowy skies this week, inmates marched onto the frozen lake in military formation in winter-weight prison greens and hard hats.

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The image bears a remarkable likeness to Gregory Crewdsen's "Untitled (Snowy Valley), " also from 2006, wherein another young woman in a winter coat stands entranced before a snowbound house.

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