Brink, V. 2005. Alpine Meadows and Summer Snow Patch: A Natural History. Davidsonia. 16(2):64-70

Glissading on alpine meadow snow patches in summer can be good fun; kids have a lark. Climbers returning from mountain peaks take seven league strides finding relief from jolting steps on hard rock and scree. Bears too, I believe, enjoy cavorting in summer on snow patches. Vivid in my memory, on a Vancouver Natural History Society geology field trip in 1926 to the headwaters of Lynn creek, was watching five bears playing up and down on a large snow patch north of Goat Mountain. Perhaps others have seen bears having fun?

Glissading is fun but it is not the only interest naturalists and photographers might find in the snow patches of summer on alpine meadows. Snow patches have a distinctive natural history of their own and they are part of landscapes in motion.