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A pleasant slope with some windswept powder available for the taking. All you have to do is jump in and poach that line.

The cable car at Squaw Valley as it approaches its landing spot at the top. This is taken from the restaurant at High Camp, a perfect vantage point to see the magnificent cable car coming up the mountain.

Brightly colored yellow and orange moss covers the rocks on top of Round Top in the Sierra Nevadas. Not exactly what I was expecting to find at the end of this long winter hike, but it certainly made the cold rocks more interesting.

The radio towers on top of Alpine Meadows. This scene is a short hike from the top of the Cornice Six lift, and is on your way to much of the better terrain that the mountain has to offer.

A beautiful evergreen tree offset from the bright sky, with a nice trimming of new fallen snow.

After an overnight snowfall in Lake Tahoe these branches were overweighted with snow, creating a cool pattern.

The cold harsh waters of the Algoma Wisconsin Harbor in winter. The broken ice chunks were like little icebergs floating around the protected area of the harbor. Certainly not a body of water you wanted to take a swim in.

This dead tree at Squaw Valley marks a shoot and rock garden area off of KT-22. It is an imposing tree as you are approaching it, which is appropriate as so is the entrance to the shoot and surrounding area. There are lots of granite rocks to hit if you aren’t careful, but the snow below makes it all worth it.

These gulls look pretty happy by Lake Tahoe. I would be too if I had this view every day!

An empty pier at night. Clear, cold and serene. In the summer this would be a very busy place, but this time of year even the water is frozen and still.