Northern Dancer
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It's snowing again. And it's time to get out and camp out. I was thinking, as I'm watching the snow gently fall to the ground, how as a child I learned about snowflakes. Do you remember? A snowflake is a single ice crystal that has achieved sufficient size and may have amalgamated with others, then falls through the Earth's atmosphere as snow. Each flake nucleates around a dust particle in supersaturated air masses by attracting supercooled cloud water droplets, which freeze and accrete in crystal form. Complex shapes emerge as the flake moves through differing temperature and humidity zones in the atmosphere, such that individual snowflakes differ in detail from one another but maybe categorized in eight broad classifications and at least 80 individual variants.
As a child - there wasn't any of that sophistication - we just cut them out of white paper and hung them from the ceiling and marvelled how different they all were.
I'll be back at "Ballantyne Park" using my Columbia Ice Crest tent with a new FE Active folding cot and an iForest Sleeping pad.
As a child - there wasn't any of that sophistication - we just cut them out of white paper and hung them from the ceiling and marvelled how different they all were.
I'll be back at "Ballantyne Park" using my Columbia Ice Crest tent with a new FE Active folding cot and an iForest Sleeping pad.