[Thin veins of augmented and imported snowpack wind down Cypress Mountain, prepared for the Winter Olympics in Vancouver ("snow was being trucked to Cypress Mountain from higher elevations" and "organizers had placed tubes filled with dry ice on courses to keep surrounding snow from breaking down"), via NASA Earth Observatory.  Read more about whitesward at Places, mammoth, BLDGBLOG, mammoth, BLDGBLOG and Infranet Lab; a New York Times article, via Pruned's Alexander Trevi, describes the scene at Cypress Mountain: "the mountain looked as if it were under military siege, not an Olympic site days from competition".]