Word: sno
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With his train of Weasels and Sno-Cats (special snow vehicles with spiked tracks), Fuchs had heavy going. The weather was warm for Antarctica, and the snow-bridges over the crevasses were weaker than when he pioneered the route to South Ice. Nine times his vehicles broke through the roofs of vast caves in the ice and had to be hauled out. Once a Sno-Cat was brought to the surface by fixing in the ice beneath it long sections of aluminum bridging to form an incline up which it could be drawn. Other troubles were heavy snowfalls and many...
...domed icecap from South Ice. It painfully threaded through a line of nunataks (mountain peaks almost submerged in ice), and reached ice with fewer crevasses on the high plateau behind. Here were great fields of sastrugi-wind-formed ridges of hard-packed snow sometimes 4 ft. high. The Sno-Cats crossed them all right, but with dangerous pitching and crashing. Progress slowed to a crawl; the weather grew worse; but the scientists kept to their schedule as if they were making their observations in the south of England in June...
...long-suffering driver of Adlai Stevenson's plunging Sno-Cat, I have in the past few days been called everything from assassin to near hero and perpetrator of overambitious publicity stunts. Now, I have further been taunted by having my beloved Mt. Hood spirited across the river to Washington on the pages of TIME, Feb. 27. Please, sir, desist from this journalistic gerrymandering; give us back our mountain and let Washington Republicans be content to scare Adlai with such common threats as airplane trouble...
...Stevenson halted his political tour of the Northwest long enough for a two-day breather last week at snowbound Timberline Lodge on the slopes of Washington's Mt. Hood. On his last day he and five friends ventured out for a quick tour of the area in a Sno-Cat tractor. Half a mile from the lodge, the tractor suddenly crashed over the brink of a 35-ft. snow canyon, turned completely over, dented its aluminum top and landed on its tracks on a snowbank. By great good luck, nobody was scratched...
...varsity ski team turned in its strongest showing of the season Saturday afternoon at Cannon Mountain as it finished fifth out of 17 teams in the Lynn Sno-Chasers Team Downhill...