| Their habitat is similarly varied, ranging from rainforest to snowfield to hot desert fringe. |
| I'd topped a fold and begun the last scramble to my truck when something streaked across the snowfield a hundred yards in front of me. |
| Astonishingly, more than 200 climbers were threading their way up the steep snowfield on that last weekend in May. |
| During my isolation, I was presented with a image of a Thunderbird formed by the shadow of a cloud on a snowfield atop a nearby mountain. |
| The only way to descend without slipping is to dig in heel-first, like a mountaineer coming down a snowfield. |
| From under the granular crust of a subalpine snowfield sprang forth life as tender and fresh as a butterfly's newly unfolded wings. |
