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Bliss, originally titled Bucolic Green Hills, is the default wallpaper of Microsoft's Windows XP operating system. It is a photograph of a green rolling hills and daytime sky with cirrus clouds . Charles O'Rear , a former National Geographic photographer, took the photo in January 1998 near the Napa – Sonoma county line, California, after a ...
Snowy Mountain is a stratovolcano on the Alaska Peninsula of Alaska, United States. [1] It was named by the National Geographic Society in 1919 because of the extensive glaciers nearby. [ 2 ]
The Big Snowy Mountains (Gros Ventre: níichʔibííkʔa, lit. 'it is never summer' [ 1 ] ) are a small mountain range south of Lewistown in Fergus County, Montana . Considerably east of and isolated from the main crest of the Northern Rockies , they are one of the few points of significant elevation in the immediate area and are considered one ...
Snowy Top is part of the Selkirk Mountains, [4] and the peak ranks as the sixth-highest peak in Boundary County. [2] The mountain is situated one-half mile (0.80 km) south of the Canada–United States border on land managed by Idaho Panhandle National Forests, and the mountain is within the Snowy Top Research Natural Area.
Snowy Mountain Range, another name for the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt, central-southern Mexico Snowy Mountain Road (County Route 17), Dry Run, West Virginia , United States Snowy Mountain Engineering Corporation , an Australian-based consulting firm
Old Snowy Mountain (7,880+ ft (2,400+ m)) is located in the Goat Rocks on the border of Lewis and Yakima Counties, in the U.S. state of Washington.Old Snowy Mountain is within the Goat Rocks Wilderness in Gifford Pinchot National Forest and is flanked by the McCall Glacier on its eastern slopes while the smaller Packwood Glacier is just northwest of the peak.
Based on the Köppen climate classification, Big Snow Mountain is located in the marine west coast climate zone of western North America. [5] Most weather fronts originate in the Pacific Ocean, and travel east toward the Coast Mountains where they are forced upward by the range (Orographic lift), causing them to drop their moisture in the form of rain or snowfall.
The Big Snowy Group is a stratigraphical unit of Chesterian age in the Williston Basin. It takes the name from Big Snowy Mountains in Montana , and was first described on the north slopes of the mountain by H.W. Smith in 1935.