Word: snow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...peaks. A fortnight ago, just after dawn, he climbed out of an automobile at the summit of Washington's crag-hung Snoqualmie Pass. He slipped on his pack, snapped on his skis and, with two teen-age pals behind him, set off on an overnight climb to Snow -Lake in the untracked high Cascades. The boys toiled steadily; by half past twelve they had passed through a draw at 4,200 feet and were beginning the last, long climb to the lake where they planned to camp...
...were silent again. Keith Jacobsen and the second boy, Larry Schinke, had vanished. Survivor Almquist started the 4½ miles back to the pass. He broke one ski. But he plunged fearfully on, waded along the Snoqualmie River until he found a familiar landmark, then took off through the snow again. It was only 3 o'clock in the afternoon when he burst out near a ski lodge at the road, yelling, "Help! Help! Avalanche...
...Weather's Terrible." Back up in the mountains, Larry Schinke was keeping a terrible vigil. When he recovered consciousness he found himself under the snow, his feet higher than his head, and with one arm thrown up over his face. The arm made a small air pocket and allowed him to breathe. But, wise in the survival rules of mountaineering, he moved not a muscle for fear of re-starting the slide. He did not know how deep he was (actually he was down only three feet), but he could see light through the snow. He assumed that...
...Snow Camera. The Army's Research and Development Laboratories at Fort Belvoir, Va. got orders to design a special camera to take pictures of snowflakes. Army brass demanded that it be impervious to weather and so simple that a six-year-old child could work it with mittens on. The first model, completed in 40 days, is probably the most specialized camera ever built. It is prefocused, contains its own light source and magnifies three imes. When the operator inserts a snow sample on a sliding shelf and presses a button, he has his picture. The Army will...
...avenge St. Paul's defeat of the '55 freshmen, the Yardlings scored once in the first period, once in the second, and twice in the third to ice the game. St. Paul's supplied black ice this year in contrast to last year's soft snow variety...