Most of the snow melted and then froze again, and the ground was covered in ice.
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Inside, keep your body off the ice or ground (the Inuit put their sleeping blankets on top of a bed of sticks and reeds) and create heat-trapping "loft" (it's what keeps you warm in a sleeping bag) by layering a few small blankets or big trash bags, with leaves or crumpled newspapers in between.
They will look, too, at the amount of ice in the ground, and the temperature and the moisture of the soil.
You can, for example, cast a spell to create a patch of ice on the ground, causing other characters in the game to slip over.
Conditions on Everest have been especially difficult this year because of the less-than-usual amount of snow and ice on the ground for climbers to dig into.
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The sixth member survived by leaping from the collapsing snow and hammering an ice axe into the ground.
My consciousness was fragile ground now, as thin as forming ice.
Two major storms have hit the Dallas area this week, including one that dropped five inches on the ground today, and presumably caused the ice to fall and injure the fans.
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Also show are agricultural land use and land surfaces with little or no plant cover - such as bare ground, urban areas and permanent snow and ice.
Some games had already been called off on Friday - while Wycombe appealed to fans to help staff grit the car park and roads leading to the ground, and clear them of snow and ice.
Other ideas include drilling into the aquifer beneath the city and pumping cool water along the tunnels (a method already used to cool the Royal Festival Hall), or installing chillers in the trains that would freeze blocks of ice while the trains were above ground which would then keep them frosty on the underground sections.
Dragging heavy fire hoses along the ground is never easy, but dragging fire hoses across ice?
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Local police described how one piece smashed into the ground near Lake Chebarkul, throwing up a column of ice, water and steam and creating a 26-foot crater.
The Flood Protection Association said compacted snow and ice would melt more slowly than snow on the ground.
Since its enactment, it has been frequently cited in cases ranging from a 2006 incident in which a man sprayed a vehicle carrying a known gang member with 14 bullets to the 2011 case of a man who was cleared under "stand your ground" after stabbing a man in the head with an ice pick during a road rage incident, according to legal and media accounts.
On aptly named Winter Street in a suburb of Boston, ice clings to bare trees and muddy snow mars the ground.
In my remix, a rich polenta cake augmented by ground almonds and lots of citrus is accompanied by candied orange segments and coconut ice cream.
Alex Scott, SNH area officer for West Sutherland and Wester Ross (North), said the caves provided a unique record of Scotland's ancient history, as glaciers during the Ice Age erased many remains buried just below the surface of the ground.
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This autonomous, solar-powered robot carries a ground-penetrating radar to study how snow accumulates, adding layer upon layer to the ice sheet over time.
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