Most years, the first snow will have just fallen to brighten the otherwise dark forest.
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Schools in the county had to be closed earlier in the week as the first snow hit the region.
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We were reminded of waking in the morning after the first snow.
Parts of the Golden Route, particularly the high roads, close when the first snow falls, usually in October or November, reopening in May or June depending on weather condition.
Val d'Isere is the traditional host of the start of the main European swing of the World Cup season, having staged men's races last weekend as part of the traditional Criterium de la Premiere Neige ("races of the first snow").
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The roads are quieter and orchards lay silent again, waiting for the first blanket of snow and the long hibernation of Himalayan winter.
The visitors were met with snowfall at their training session in Aberdeen on Wednesday, with some members of the touring party seeing snow for the first time.
He under-rotated the flip, driving the front end of the snowmobile into the landing and sending him flying over the handlebars and into the snow head-first.
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Ask for a harbour mountain-view room and you can watch seaplanes take off from Coal Harbour or see the first streaks of light hit the snow-capped North Shore mountains as you sip your morning coffee.
"With the children being home and they're seeing snow for the first time and just so many new things, our focus right now is just on the fact that we're here and we're able to live these moments with them, " she said.
Then, when I had finished that, I poured myself more tea, and because I was still hungry, and because I really did feel happy, sitting there in the quiet, watching the snow, I sneaked first one slice, then another, then all of the toast I had made for Marie, and ate it with the jam while it was still warm.
Union president Ed Bailey said he appreciated the minister meeting members at a farm near Llanidloes to learn first hand the impact the snow was having on them.
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Their delicate texture alone is enough to make a hunter strap on his boots at the first trickle of melting snow.
The Chinese company also said nearly all of its silicon needs and sales for 2008 have been secured through contracts and that it is "on track" to grow sales and profit margins during the first quarter, despite snow storms that caused delivery delays.
The race in 2010 was the first time the Aviemore event had been held on snow for 15 years.
To experience the beautiful environment of snow-light skiing first hand, aim to visit the Cascades next year, right around this time.
Morels first appear when the snow has just melted and the sap has run.
Heavy snow curtailed the first day and delayed the start on Thursday as the course was prepared for play.
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Most people step off that snow lift for the first time and stare down in awe at the sheer expanse of ice that awaits them.
Rove, along with chief of staff Josh Bolten and counselor Dan Bartlett, were working on their BlackBerrys and phones throughout the night and the first lady occasionally popped in, Snow said.
Right now, I am focused on landing my skis on the snow and making the first turn, which, in this case, is finding the right investors to back my vision and commit to helping me build it.
"In my high school days, we'd have snow typically for our first couple of games of the high school baseball season, but never that much snow, " he said.
SPACs may be the first indication of a sustained recovery, like daffodils poking up through the snow.
At the first ghostly light, which seemed to radiate not from the sky but from the snow, we got up, our limbs numb and our eyes glazed from sleeplessness, hunger, and darkness, and found our shoes so frozen that, when struck, they rang like bells.
Kwame Nkrumah-Acheampong, known as the "Snow Leopard, " was the first person from Ghana to qualify for the Winter Olympics.
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Last winter, she went snow shoeing with classmates for the first time and she completed a 7-mile walk-run with her family last May.
It is here, over the tops of the inevitable ducks, that Gokyo Ri first comes into view, its brown rounded form a contrast to the snow-covered, sharp-tipped lines of Cho Oyu beyond.
As soon as "the first flakes fall down we will drive out ... and (begin) the snow cleaning, " he added.
The first rain of the year, which fell last week, turned the Kukcha river, a snow-fed torrent that rushes through the town, from its normal milky jade to a muddy brown.
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