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With the accumulation of snow from a winter of storms and additional mountain snowfall in March and April, skiing can be at its best in the spring.

Although glamorous, that original dwelling wasn’t the right fit for the basketball star, so he razed the property, leaving behind a mountain of rubble.

The estate is home to rare wildlife, including curlew, mountain bumblebees, lapwings, red squirrels, cuckoo and merlin, as well as Atlantic salmon and critically endangered eels, but the conservationists say nature could be richer still.

Landslides are likely to cut off mountain roads, isolating rural communities.

The return of winter has already claimed a life on the tallest mountain in the continental United States, with the death of a hiker on slippery Mt.