snowclad

The smell of sulphur assaults the senses long before you turn into the natural amphitheatre where the Bains de Saint Thomas nestle into the snowclad foothills…

Skiwatch: Best slopes are above 2,000m in Méribel 2011

The smell of sulphur assaults the senses long before you turn into the natural amphitheatre where the Bains de Saint Thomas nestle into the snowclad foothills…

Skiwatch: Best slopes are above 2,000m in Méribel 2011

There lay Mount Ole Engelstad, snowclad and cold, as we saw it the first time.

The South Pole~ The Return to Framheim 2009

Its purple distances melted at last into the bluish slopes of the further hills — hills it might be of a greener kind — and above them invisibly supported, and seeming indeed to hang in the blue, were the snowclad summits of mountains that grew larger and bolder to the north-westward as the sides of the valley drew together.

Twelve Stories and a Dream, by H. G. Wells Herbert George 2006

As he sank down among them the clouds ceased to seem the snowclad mountain-slopes they had resembled heretofore, became unsubstantial, confessed an immense silent drift and eddy in their substance.

The War in the Air Herbert George 2006

There lay Mount Ole Engelstad, snowclad and cold, as we saw it the first time.

The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian antarctic expedition in the 'Fram', 1910 to 1912 2003

Similarly does the sun keep appearing and disappearing as though he were pursuing the fugitive earth, and ever and anon halting through weariness before his decline into the dark, shadowy vista where the snowclad peaks of the western mountains are rearing their heads, and fast-reddening clouds are reminding one of the surface of a ploughed field.

Through Russia 2003

The backdrop of the snowclad Rockies was breathtaking and the air was so clean, it smelt of bright sunshine and clear wind.

Wagers of Sin Asprin, Robert 1996

It was decorated with a row of white triangles at eye level, like snowclad mountain peaks upside down.

KOKOPELLI’S FLUTE WILL HOBBS 1995

Here the first need is for the control for flood protection of the waters which come down in sudden spate from the glaciers and snowclad slopes of the Rockies under the effect of the strengthening sun of spring and early summer.

Boundary Waters Between Canada and the United States 1951