Large tracts of smiling verdure contrasted with the dazzling whiteness of the shaded slopes and hollows.

The San Colombano area is reliable, as are the high, shaded, north-facing slopes of Santa Caterina.

It grows on moist and shaded slopes.

Good for soil stabilization on shaded slopes.

Beech woods dominate the shaded, damp northern slopes (24%), in places with trees that are over 200 years old.

The shaded steep slopes of the Mirnock massif in the south are covered with forests, while the northern shore is settled with Alpine pastures and farmsteads.

On the shaded northern slopes of the major peaks are the Packwood, McCall, Conrad and Meade Glaciers.

Stretching for miles, the mountains extended to the northern horizon in folds of buckled land and shaded slopes tinged with the harsh, red light of the dying day.

I headed back to the shaded slopes in search of powder and that perfect telemark turn - which continues to elude me.

The shaded and moist northern slopes of the massif like, for example, the Wettersteinwald, are some of the most species-rich environments on the Zugspitze.