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"\"&lt;figure id=\\\"attachment_87541\\\" style=\\\"width: 1632px\\\" class=\\\"wp-caption alignright\\\"&gt;&lt;a href=\\\"http:\\/\\/www.powdermag.com\\/files\\/2013\\/02\\/photo-1.jpg\\\"&gt;&lt;img src=\\\"http:\\/\\/www.powdermag.com\\/files\\/2013\\/02\\/photo-1.jpg\\\" alt=\\\"\\\" title=\\\"A roadside wind farm. PHOTO: PORTER FOX\\\" width=\\\"1632\\\" height=\\\"1224\\\" class=\\\"size-full wp-image-87541\\\" srcset=\\\"http:\\/\\/www.powder.com\\/wp-content\\/uploads\\/2013\\/02\\/photo-1.jpg 1632w, http:\\/\\/www.powder.com\\/wp-content\\/uploads\\/2013\\/02\\/photo-1-312x234.jpg 312w, http:\\/\\/www.powder.com\\/wp-content\\/uploads\\/2013\\/02\\/photo-1-640x480.jpg 640w, http:\\/\\/www.powder.com\\/wp-content\\/uploads\\/2013\\/02\\/photo-1-970x727.jpg 970w, http:\\/\\/www.powder.com\\/wp-content\\/uploads\\/2013\\/02\\/photo-1-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\\/\\/www.powder.com\\/wp-content\\/uploads\\/2013\\/02\\/photo-1-200x150.jpg 200w, http:\\/\\/www.powder.com\\/wp-content\\/uploads\\/2013\\/02\\/photo-1-120x90.jpg 120w, http:\\/\\/www.powder.com\\/wp-content\\/uploads\\/2013\\/02\\/photo-1-800x600.jpg 800w, http:\\/\\/www.powder.com\\/wp-content\\/uploads\\/2013\\/02\\/photo-1-100x75.jpg 100w\\\" sizes=\\\"(max-width: 1632px) 100vw, 1632px\\\" \\/&gt;&lt;\\/a&gt;&lt;figcaption class=\\\"wp-caption-text\\\"&gt;A roadside wind farm. PHOTO: PORTER FOX&lt;\\/figcaption&gt;&lt;\\/figure&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;This series follows a yearlong, global project to document disappearing snow in the Northern Hemisphere. We\\u2019ll be interviewing meteorologists, scientists, skiers, farmers, and anyone who knows anything about snow along the way. The coverage started in Portland, Oregon, on a trans-Rockies road trip, and will continue across the U.S. and Europe.&lt;br \\/&gt;\\n&lt;\\/em&gt;&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Days 3-4: Mt. Hood to Stevens Pass&lt;\\/strong&gt;&lt;br \\/&gt;\\n&lt;em&gt;A 20 percent chance of snow before 10am. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 36. West wind 11 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.&lt;br \\/&gt;\\n&lt;\\/em&gt;&lt;br \\/&gt;\\nWe hit the road after breakfast and coast down Highway 35. The roads are wet with two inches of sand covering the double yellow line. The Prius charges its batteries as we arc around corners and glide over glacial moraines. The snow thins the further we descend, hundreds, then thousands, of feet to the Hood River Valley. There, the skeletal apple and pear trees of the valley\\u2019s myriad orchards edge the road in perfect rows. The leaves and fruit are gone but the grass around them is green, as is most of the landscape.&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;We pull into Bickford Orchards and ask them about climate change and water supply. Bickford added grapevines years ago when temperatures and water supply from Mt. Hood stopped being as consistent as they once were. Grapes don\\u2019t need as much water, but are highly sensitive to temperature change\\u2014as seen in Napa Valley and the Mediterranean that is &lt;a href=\\\"http:\\/\\/25.media.tumblr.com\\/tumblr_lor2e5bxDB1qbazqao1_500.jpg\\\"&gt;warming with the rest of the planet&lt;\\/a&gt;. Grapes once grown in Bordeaux are now being grown in England. Same goes for the U.S. where Oregon, and Bickford Orchards, just saw its finest vintage last year, winemaker Rich Cushman said.&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;Cushman gives us a bottle of Riesling, made from grapes he planted in the 1980s, and we continue five hours to Stevens Pass. Stevens has gotten 358 inches this season and seems to be stacking up a few more inches every other day. They\\u2019ve had a lot of sun, too, a rarity for a resort in the North Cascades. It\\u2019s hard to say how climate change will affect this area, as increased moisture in the air will likely increase snowfall in the short term. The question is, will freezing levels in the long-term\\u201450 years out\\u2014stay low enough for it to fall as snow in the mountains. Most scientists say that, with a predicted rise of 3.2F by the 2040s in the Pacific Northwest, skiing in the North Cascades could be limited to higher elevation mountains like Mt. Baker and Crystal.&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;figure id=\\\"attachment_87543\\\" style=\\\"width: 640px\\\" class=\\\"wp-caption alignright\\\"&gt;&lt;a href=\\\"http:\\/\\/www.powdermag.com\\/files\\/2013\\/02\\/photo-4.jpg\\\"&gt;&lt;img src=\\\"http:\\/\\/www.powdermag.com\\/files\\/2013\\/02\\/photo-4-640x175.jpg\\\" alt=\\\"\\\" title=\\\"Powder day of the future, Stevens Pass. PHOTO: PORTER FOX\\\" width=\\\"640\\\" height=\\\"175\\\" class=\\\"size-medium wp-image-87543\\\" srcset=\\\"http:\\/\\/www.powder.com\\/wp-content\\/uploads\\/2013\\/02\\/photo-4-640x175.jpg 640w, http:\\/\\/www.powder.com\\/wp-content\\/uploads\\/2013\\/02\\/photo-4-970x265.jpg 970w, http:\\/\\/www.powder.com\\/wp-content\\/uploads\\/2013\\/02\\/photo-4-160x43.jpg 160w, http:\\/\\/www.powder.com\\/wp-content\\/uploads\\/2013\\/02\\/photo-4-100x27.jpg 100w, http:\\/\\/www.powder.com\\/wp-content\\/uploads\\/2013\\/02\\/photo-4-200x54.jpg 200w\\\" sizes=\\\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\\\" \\/&gt;&lt;\\/a&gt;&lt;figcaption class=\\\"wp-caption-text\\\"&gt;Powder day of the future, Stevens Pass. PHOTO: PORTER FOX&lt;\\/figcaption&gt;&lt;\\/figure&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;An interesting weather phenomenon in the area is what makes it snow right now. When there\\u2019s high pressure in the eastern plains and low pressure coming in off the Pacific in the west, frigid air from the east flows west through the passes\\u2014like Stevens and nearby Snoqualmie\\u2014&lt;a href=\\\"http:\\/\\/sat.wrh.noaa.gov\\/satellite\\/loopsat.php?wfo=sew&amp;#038;area=nw&amp;#038;type=vis&amp;#038;size=4\\\"&gt;chilling them below the freezing level, and turning moisture to snow&lt;\\/a&gt;.&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;We ski the next day with Tiffany Abraham. Her nickname in Leavenworth is Tinkerbell, because she takes care of the Lost Boys of Stevens Pass. For a hill that hasn\\u2019t seen snow in over a week, the skiing is terrific. Soft-packed powder, blue skies, short lines at the lifts. Plumes of white crystals follow skiers down the hill. It\\u2019s the kind of snowpack that gives you the feeling the place is flush with the white stuff most of the time. In 50 years, this very well might be the kind of snow that skiers from all over the country flock to. As in, it might replace the powder day.&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;The blue skies are a new phenomenon, Tiffany says. She doesn\\u2019t remember ever having so many sunny days in a season. This year it seems to be happening more often. The trees are dripping in the sun and the runoff at the bottom carves small trenches in the parking lot. It\\u2019s a typical scene at any resort in the spring. Not so typical for mid-February. But up high, for now anyway, there\\u2019s still plenty of snow. In fact, significantly more than most of the rest of the Lower 48.&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;figure id=\\\"attachment_87547\\\" style=\\\"width: 300px\\\" class=\\\"wp-caption alignright\\\"&gt;&lt;a href=\\\"http:\\/\\/www.powdermag.com\\/files\\/2013\\/02\\/photo-51.jpg\\\"&gt;&lt;img src=\\\"http:\\/\\/www.powdermag.com\\/files\\/2013\\/02\\/photo-51-e1361555675850.jpg\\\" alt=\\\"\\\" title=\\\"Ullr&amp;#039;s Prayer. PHOTO: PORTER FOX\\\" width=\\\"300\\\" height=\\\"400\\\" class=\\\"size-full wp-image-87547\\\" srcset=\\\"http:\\/\\/www.powder.com\\/wp-content\\/uploads\\/2013\\/02\\/photo-51-e1361555675850.jpg 300w, http:\\/\\/www.powder.com\\/wp-content\\/uploads\\/2013\\/02\\/photo-51-e1361555675850-67x90.jpg 67w, http:\\/\\/www.powder.com\\/wp-content\\/uploads\\/2013\\/02\\/photo-51-e1361555675850-75x100.jpg 75w, http:\\/\\/www.powder.com\\/wp-content\\/uploads\\/2013\\/02\\/photo-51-e1361555675850-150x200.jpg 150w\\\" sizes=\\\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\\\" \\/&gt;&lt;\\/a&gt;&lt;figcaption class=\\\"wp-caption-text\\\"&gt;Ullr's Prayer. PHOTO: PORTER FOX&lt;\\/figcaption&gt;&lt;\\/figure&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;We hit the The Bull\\u2019s Tooth after skiing and get beers and a heaping plate of nachos. Tiffany orders a round of shots I\\u2019ve never heard of before. Ullr is the God of Snow, and also, apparently, a peppermint cinnamon schnapps. We throw them back and I study the bottle. On the front is the image of a snow-covered mountain. On the side is a \\u201cPrayer for Snow\\u201d: &lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;Come snow! Come snow!&lt;br \\/&gt;\\nFall fast, fall slow&lt;br \\/&gt;\\nbe it powder or crud,&lt;br \\/&gt;\\nLet the inches be shown &lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;Come snow! Come snow!&lt;br \\/&gt;\\nBlessed ULLR bestow&lt;br \\/&gt;\\nMake white our peaks&lt;br \\/&gt;\\nMake full our bowls &lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;Come snow! Come snow!&lt;br \\/&gt;\\nFrom here to fro&lt;br \\/&gt;\\nLet the snow god be praised&lt;br \\/&gt;\\nLet his gifts be shown&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n\""^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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