What is "subalpine"

Usage examples of "subalpine".

The spot he chose was a grassy oasis among the trees, carpeted with subalpine flowers, now in their fullest beauty, and close to a small stream that here came down from a side valley.

I may add that the Val Leventina is much the same as every other subalpine valley on the Italian side of the Alps that I have yet seen.

I have often looked for it in other subalpine valleys of North Italy and the canton Ticino, but have never happened to light upon it.

For my own part I have found the curato in the small subalpine villages of North Italy to be more often than not a kindly excellent man to whom I am attracted by sympathies deeper than any mere superficial differences of opinion can counteract.

Almost all days in the subalpine valleys of North Italy have a beauty with them of some kind or another, but none are more lovely than a quiet gray day just at the beginning of autumn, when the clouds are drawing lazily and in the softest fleeces over the pine forests high up on the mountain sides.

We perhaps, therefore, thought the valley of the Moesa to be of such singular beauty on account of the day on which we saw it, but doubt whether it must not be absolutely among the most beautiful of the subalpine valleys upon the Italian side.

What a sense of vastness and freedom is there on the broad heaving slopes of these subalpine spurs.

Many a page of his books was written while resting by the fountain of some subalpine village or waiting in the shade of the chestnuts till the light came so that he could continue a sketch.

And as we travel to higher elevations, we can see whitebark pine and subalpine fir.

The whitebark pine resembles the trees here, whereas the subalpine fir trees have branches that reach nearly to the base of the tree, most resembling traditional Christmas trees.

The great clone groves of aspen covering the subalpine hillsides had gone golden earlier that week and because it had been a wet, warm summer, the leaves were a perfect yellow-gold, shimmering against the blue-vaulted sky and filling the hillsides and valleys below them with a constantly dancing light.

The small plants of the subalpine snatched at the invisible torrents of air like the wasted hands of the starving.

From it, a cart track led down through the subalpine terrain to a lateral road through the foothills.

From it, a carttrack led down through the subalpine terrain to a lateral road through the foothills.

And as we travel to higher elevations, we can see whitebark pine and subalpine fir.