alpenglow can be caused by snow, moisture, or ice on mountain sides which receive the scattered red light from the setting Sun. From LearnThat.org.
The volcano did not shine or sparkle in the false alpenglow. From Wordnik.com. [Icerigger]
Peach-colored alpenglow illuminated the great peaks, giving hint of the sun's impending presence. From Wordnik.com. [Genellan- Planetfall]
The lower ranges were forested, as was the valley between, and there was a redmauve alpenglow on the great peak that rose from the head of the valley. From Wordnik.com. [Space Viking]
Amber mists, a cloaked old man with a staff, a cluster of flamingos standing in the alpenglow—a vision so steeped in kitsch you could die just by buying the postcard. From Wordnik.com. [Underworld] Reference
Can a sentence possibly express the magic of the alpenglow?. From Wordnik.com. [Netvouz - new bookmarks] Reference
If she had said the alpenglow had fathered him, he would not have been more amazed. From Wordnik.com. [The Little Coyote] Reference
Climbing above the treeline, deep blue light of night gives way to alpenglow, and the jagged peaks of 3,150-metre. From Wordnik.com. [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference
Don't miss: Evening alpenglow on the peaks, and fishing for big rainbow and golden trout in hidden lakes off-trail. From Wordnik.com. [SFGate: Top News Stories] Reference
Last evening as seen from camp it was adorned with a cloud streamer, and both the streamer and the peak were flushed in the alpenglow. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in Alaska] Reference
Photos should be in color and depict alpenglow - the reddish glow on mountains during sunrise and sunset - preferably in Summit County. From Wordnik.com. [Summit Daily News - Top Stories] Reference
The lower ranges were forested, as was the valley between, and there was a red-mauve alpenglow on the great peak that rose from the head of the valley. From Wordnik.com. [Space Viking] Reference
We made our decent into Victoria de Durango just in time to have the setting sun at our back and the alpenglow reflected on the hills east of the city. From Wordnik.com. [TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com] Reference
I shall see those lights behind my eyelids to-night, as I saw the sunset light on Stonehenge; the moon touching the Giralda of Seville; and my first alpenglow. From Wordnik.com. [The Port of Adventure] Reference
We left the enchanting valley that morning, the trills of the white-crowns ringing in the alpenglow like a sad farewell, as if they felt that we should never meet again. From Wordnik.com. [Birds of the Rockies] Reference
My Inaugural alpenglow saying Through the haze of my nearly constant cynicism, I still see possibility and, after all that we have witnessed and experienced, I still hope. From Wordnik.com. [Lesbian Dad] Reference
You could then crown the day at stone bridge over the Merced River in Yosemite Valley and take an Ansel Adams-style sunset photograph of Half Dome, cast in the alpenglow of dusk. From Wordnik.com. [SFGate: Top News Stories] Reference
The peaks, too, in the distance, and the snow-fields and glaciers and fleecy rolls of mist that lay in the hollows, were flushed with a deep, rosy alpenglow of ineffable loveliness. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in Alaska] Reference
The view, which encompasses the Cascade Range from the Three Sisters to Mount Hood, was even more spectacular than I remembered, most likely because this time it was bathed in evening alpenglow lighting. From Wordnik.com. [News Review - Top Stories] Reference
And after the shadows had crept higher, submerging the glaciers and the ridges between them, the divine alpenglow still lingered on their highest fountain peaks as they stood transfigured in glorious array. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in Alaska] Reference
The mountains of the mainland were unclouded, excepting one, which had a horizontal ruff of dull slate color, but its icy summit covered with fresh snow towered above the cloud, flushed like its neighbors in the alpenglow. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in Alaska] Reference
We had heard the heavy detonation of the slide about the hour of the alpenglow, a pale rosy interval in a darkling air, and judged he must have come from hunting to the ruined cliff and paced the night out before it, crying a very human woe. From Wordnik.com. [The Land of Little Rain] Reference
There was shore ice, however, even in the open bends, along which we were able to creep; and, though the ice-jams gave considerable trouble, yet we did very well the first day and camped at dark with eighteen or nineteen miles to our credit, in the presence of a great, red, smoky sunset and a glorious alpenglow on a distant snow mountain. From Wordnik.com. [Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska] Reference
A different kind of light: an alpenglow to dissolve your colleagues into walls, or to lift them like angels, depending …. From Wordnik.com. [ImpeachBush] Reference
A vivid crimson, with a thick, furred appearance, as fine as the alpenglow, yet indescribably rich and deep -- not in the least like a garment or mere external flush or bloom through which one might expect to see the rocks or snow, but every mountain apparently was glowing from the heart like molten metal fresh from a furnace. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in Alaska] Reference
The alpenglow on the mountains. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-12-01] Reference
The peaks have caught the alpenglow. From Wordnik.com. [Poems] Reference
9 folks from Eastern Europe enjoyed the alpenglow during a flight of McKinley today, lucky! vxmiran On the phone with a dude from Eastern Europe who doesnt speak English, says he understands. From Wordnik.com. [Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7] Reference
Inaugural alpenglow saying L'chaim!. From Wordnik.com. [Lesbian Dad] Reference
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