Can't face the thought of long summer months without skiing? Head to the southern hemisphere and hit the snow in Tongariro National Park.
A park. Not sure where, but the truth is that this is every park in Minnesota during winter.
One of the great Tahoe ski resorts. It's a bit remote but that just means that there are fewer people.
Landscape shot of the Ojai valley with snow on the mountains.
Crossing over Sani Pass is a trick in the best of weather, a June snowstorm made getting to the Rooftop of Southern Africa even more interesting.
Burana Tower, located about an hour east of Bishkek near the city of Tokmok, is all that remains of the ancient city of Balasagyn, once the thriving capital of the Karakhanid Empire. Apparently, at its height, the city manufactured exquisite glass and ceramics, had an elaborate city-wide irrigation/plumbing/sewer system built with fired-clay pipes, was home to scholars, poets and numerous religions (although in its later years it became a Muslim city), it was home to fierce warriors – male and female – and it was a major stop on one of the Silk Road routes (from the Torugart Pass out of China, past Lake Issyk-Kul through what is now Bishkek before heading further westward.
Mount Tutoko is a 8,934 foot mountain on the Ngapunatoru Plateau of the Southern Alps, a mountain chain that forms the spine of New Zealand's South Island.
At the top of Whistler's Peak Chair Lift.
Just another perfect day at Squaw Valley USA