* Sayan Alpine meadows and tundra

# Alpine and tundra wetlands ; includes alpine meadows, tundra pools, temporary waters from snow melt

Sub-alpine meadows dot the canyon rim in such areas as Alpine Pond, which is an easy hike from the road along a clear trail.

* Alpine meadows occur at high elevations above the tree line and are maintained by harsh climatic conditions

The territory relief consists of rocky hillsides covered with the bright green carpet of Alpine meadows ; Tavush is sometimes referred to as a little Armenian Switzerland.

Due to local weather conditions, the tree line in the area descends to 1200 – 1300 m. Alpine meadows can be found in particularly low elevations in the Jeseník mountains.

The production area is strictly defined: it starts from the meadows of the Po Valley and finishes in the Alpine pastures between the Asiago Plateau and the Trentino's highlands.

Alpine meadows, climacic at higher altitudes, have often replaced these upper mountain forests, some of them, on highest ridges or sheltered slopes, show distinctly xerophytic features.

Alpine marmots prefer alpine meadows and high-altitude pastures and colonies, where they live in deep burrow systems situated in alluvial soil or rocky areas.

The Alpine Club of Canada constructed a large hut in 1972 to reduce environmental damage to the fragile alpine meadows below the spires.

Together, they form a distinct physiographic province of the larger Alpine System division.

It was established in its modern form in 1981 and is located in the northwestern part of the country, respectively the southeastern part of the Alpine massif.

The pressure formed great recumbent folds, or nappes, that rose out of what had become the Alpine Tethys and pushed northward, often breaking and sliding one over the other to form gigantic thrust faults.

Alpine is governed under the Borough form of New Jersey municipal government.

The fossil record from the Pleistocene of Europe includes a form similar to the Alpine Chough, and sometimes categorised as an extinct subspecies of that bird, and a prehistoric form of the Red-billed Chough, P. p. primigenius.

Schwingen as a special form of grappling in Alpine culture can be traced to the early 17th century.

Ski mountaineering is form of ski touring that variously combines the sports of Telemark, Alpine, and backcountry skiing with that of mountaineering.

The floor pan of this model was later to form the basis for the Sunbeam Alpine, Sunbeam also being part of the Rootes empire.

The area flanking the western shore of Verbano ( or Lago Maggiore ) forms the eastern part of the province ; Cusio ( or Lago d ’ Orta ) and its environs form the southern part ; while the north and east of the province consists of the Ossola, a region of Alpine mountains and valleys.

Because of the difficulty of working this material, which was derived from the Alpine area of Europe, all the axe heads of this type found in Great Britain are thought to have been non-utilitarian and to have represented some form of currency or be the products of gift exchange.

There was one more model of the Sunbeam-Talbot that appeared in 1953 in the form of an Alpine, a two seater sports roadster which was initially developed by a Sunbeam-Talbot dealer George Hartwell in Bournemouth as a one-off rally car that had its beginnings as a 1952 drophead coupé.

These three Augustae form the corners of a triangle that reaches across the Alpine conquests of Augustus, and whose long base from the Rheinknie to the Danube formed the frontier against unconquered Germania.

Many consider Alpine style to be the purest form of mountaineering, setting a standard to which all mountaineers should aspire.

In 1995, Murray Publishers Pty Limited and the Alpine Australia Group Pty Limited merged to form Perisher Blue Pty Limited.

The Tux Alps are one of three mountain ranges that form an Alpine backdrop to the city of Innsbruck.

It is well connected via mechanical lifts and groomed pistes with the neighbouring villages of Zürs, St Christof, St. Anton and Stuben-together they form the Arlberg region, the birth place of the modern Alpine skiing technique and the seat of the Ski Club Arlberg.

Occasionally the regions of the higher Swiss Plateau, especially the hills of the canton of Fribourg, the Napf region, the Töss region and parts of the Appenzell region are considered to form the Swiss Alpine foreland in a narrow sense.

Cretin became a medical term in the 18th century, from an Alpine French dialect prevalent in a region where persons with such a condition were especially common ( see below ); it saw wide medical use in the 19th and early 20th centuries, and then spread more widely in popular English as a markedly derogatory term for a person who behaves stupidly.

* Nordic skiing, a winter sport that encompasses all types of skiing where the heel of the boot cannot be fixed to the ski, as opposed to Alpine skiing

Nearby is the Sierra Nevada Ski Station, where the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1996 were held.

Many high altitude locations on Earth have a climate where no month having an average temperature of or higher, but as this is due to elevation, this climate is referred to as Alpine climate.

Alpine Pavilion, an open-air stone picnic pavilion built in 1934 by the Civil Works Administration and available for rental is located here, as well as the historic Blackledge-Kearney House, said to be the site where Lord Cornwallis and his troops landed on November 20, 1776, in their pursuit of the Continental Army following the rout of George Washington's forces in the Battle of New York.

Alpine is located at the southern end of the Snake River Canyon where the Snake River enters Palisades Reservoir.

The town is also known as Alpine Junction since it marks the point where US Route 89 and US Route 26 turn in opposite directions.

We can see similar geologic evidence in the Alpine orogeny of Europe, where the movement of the African plate raised the Alps.

" Cliff White described a show in the UK where " with head thrown back and one hand cupped to his mouth like an Alpine yodeller he cried out with such overwhelming passion that he left the spellbound audience wrung out and exhausted like so many limp rags.

The city suffered several invasions, by the Magyars in 925-926, when the cathedral was destroyed, and by the Saracens ( 940 and 954 ), but afterwards it flourished thanks to its location, where the roads from several major Alpine transit routes come together and continue down the Rhine river.

Nordic skiing is a combination of winter sports that encompasses all types of skiing where the heel of the boot cannot be fixed to the ski, as opposed to Alpine skiing.

The city of Ulm is situated in the northern part of the North Alpine Foreland basin, where the basin reaches the Swabian Alb.

In the eastern Himalayas in November, Alpine Choughs occur mainly in juniper forests where they feed on juniper berries, differing ecologically from the Red-billed Choughs in the same region and at the same time of year, which feed by digging in the soil of terraced pastures of villages.

:: Bell-shaped spires: These spires, sometimes square in plan, occur mostly in Northern, Alpine and Eastern Europe, where they occur alternately with onion-shaped domes.

On the continent, the Taunus version was competing with more modern and practical designs like the Talbot Alpine, Volkswagen Passat and Opel Ascona, but the brand image of Ford's blue oval ensured the Cortina was a success in virtually every country where it was sold.

Alpine glaciers tend to make the topography more rugged, by adding and improving the scale of existing features such as large ravines called cirques and ridges where the rims of two cirques meet called arêtes.

Reichenau is a village in the municipality of Tamins in the Canton of Graubünden, Switzerland, where the two Rhine tributaries Vorderrhein and Hinterrhein meet, forming the Alpine Rhine.

A southern move led to the Mediterranean where ' enclaves ' were established in south-western Spain and southern France around the Golfe du Lion and into the Po valley in Italy probably via ancient western Alpine trade routes used to distribute jadeite axes.

Near Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, U. S. 26 again splits from U. S. 20 to the southeast, proceeding to Blackfoot, where U. S. 26 joins Interstate 15 for about 20 miles before splitting just south of Idaho Falls toward Alpine, Wyoming.

) This unit was trained as parachute infantry and was intended for insertion into the expected " Alpine Redoubt " on the Austrian / German border, where senior Nazi officials were planning to make their last stand against the advancing Allied armies.

An Alpine crossroads at the intersection of D994 and Route nationale 85 the Route Napoléon, Gap lies above sea level along the right bank of the Luye River ( close to where it joins the Durance River ).

Conrad wrote an autobiography titled Where the Clouds Can Go where he describes his tough years while growing up in Austria as well as his 25 years working variously as a guide for The Alpine Club of Canada, a hunter outfitter, and an assistant to W. O Wheeler for the Geographic Survey of Canada.

The Alpine Club of Canada maintains an alpine hut ( the Conrad Kain hut ) in the Bugaboos where Kain also made a number of first ascents, including Bugaboo Spire, the most difficult alpine climb in Canada until the 1940s.

This is often used in Alpine climbing where efficiency is important.