A single trail can hold deep snow and warm sunlit lawns side by side.
Evidence
The trail ran on the north side the whole time, and the snow lay deep and pure white, while not a wreath of it lay on the south side, where abundant lawns basked in the warm sun. The pitch pine, with its monotonous and somewhat rigid form, had disappeared; the white pine became scarce, both being displayed by the slim spires and silvery green of the miniature silver spruce. Valley and canyon were passed, the flaming ranges were left behind, the upper altitudes became grim and mysterious. — Isabella L. Bird, A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains, 188
Categorization
- CANDY: Winter and summer a few feet apart on one mountain trail is a genuinely tweetable image.
- FICTION: A pass where two seasons coexist along the same path is ready-made for fantasy geography or a story about a boundary between worlds.