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profdant139
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Nov 19, 2015

Question for you snow experts: are rainbow sparkles common?

We just got back from a week of snow camping in the Sequoias, and we came across something we'd never seen before in 50 years of snow sports -- snow that sparkled in all the colors of the rainbow. He...
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toedtoes
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Nov 19, 2015
Snow is basically water crystals. If the light hits it at the right angle, the crystal will reflect the light. The different colors are simply the breaking down of the light into individual colors in the spectrum.

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