Kwame Nkrumah-Acheampong, known around the world as the Snow Leopard, is the only Winter Olympic athlete to represent the African country of Ghana.
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Winter 2010 Issue
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La Nina and Sasquatch: Grow Your Hair and Stay at Home
Certain signs in nature have been used for time immemorial to predict the weather. The black and rust stripes of the woolly bear caterpillar shrink and grow according to cold weather. If there is thunder in winter, snow is said to arrive seven days later.
We call them Snowflakes, some call them “Stellar Dendrites”
Snow is a vital component to a ski hill like Mount Washington Alpine Resort. We all know what happens when there’s a lot of it: Groomers are worked to the bone and skiers slide around with perma-grins.