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  • Friends who ski into the backcountry of the San Juan and La Plata mountain ranges in western Colorado tell me that the pink-snow phenomenon has lately been giving way to redder hues, so thick and frequent are the dust storms that roll in these days.

    Chip Ward: Red Snow Warning: The End of Welfare Water and the Drying of the West 2009

  • Friends who ski into the backcountry of the San Juan and La Plata mountain ranges in western Colorado tell me that the pink-snow phenomenon has lately been giving way to redder hues, so thick and frequent are the dust storms that roll in these days.

    AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed Chip Ward, Tomdispatch.com 2009

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  • Obs. A small vessel* resembling a pink — a small sailing vessel, usually having a narrow stern; specifically (a) a flat-bottomed boat with bulging sides, used for coasting and fishing; (b) a small warship in which the stern broadens out at the level of the upper deck to accommodate quarter guns, used esp. in the Danish navy. — in construction.

    *Snow, as in, a small sailing-vessel resembling a brig, carrying a main and fore mast and a supplementary trysail mast close behind the mainmast; formerly employed as a warship.

    August 6, 2008