Andrews’s experience of path had turn into numbed by way of the swirling white vortex of snow. The faint gray-green of the pine bushes that included the opposing mountainsides, which had previous guided them within the basic course of the valley’s mouth, had lengthy been shrouded from the perspectives of them all; past the horses and the figures huddled upon them, Andrews couldn't see any mark that confirmed him the place they went. an analogous whiteness met his eyes at any place he appeared; he had the feeling that, dizzily, they have been circling round and round in a circle that delicately diminished, till they have been spinning furiously upon a unmarried aspect. And nonetheless Miller spurred his horse, and beat its flanks, which glistened with sweat even within the using, sour chilly. the 3 horses have been grouped heavily jointly; with a type of imprecise horror that he couldn't comprehend, Andrews observed that Miller had closed his eyes opposed to the stinging gale, and saved them closed, his head grew to become downward and to the part in order that it was once seen to Andrews even of their heavy gallop. Miller saved a decent carry at the reins, guiding the pony in a course that he didn't see. The others him blindly, trusting his blindness. all at once, out of the typhoon, a gloomy wall reared up sooner than them; it used to be the mountainside of bushes, upon which the snow, pushed by way of the fierce wind, couldn't settle. The ghostly form of the big chimney rock the place that they had equipped their fires loomed vaguely, a grimy yellow-gray opposed to the white snow. Miller slowed his horse to a stroll, and led the others to the aspen-pole corral that Charley Hoge had outfitted. attempting to preserve their backs to the wind, they dismounted and led their horses into the corral, tethering them shut jointly within the farthest nook. They left their saddles on, hooking the stirrups over the horns in order that within the wind they wouldn't beat opposed to the horses’ facets. Miller motioned for them to stick to him; bent nearly double within the face of the wind, they made their means out of the corral towards the spot the place they'd stacked and baled the buffalo hides. The stacks of hides have been drifted excessive with snow; a few of them had blown over, and rested lengthwise at the floor; others swayed sharply ahead of the powerful gusts of wind; the corners of 2 or 3 unfastened hides, scattered over the floor, protruded from the snow; Andrews discovered that this used to be what remained of an unthonged pile of hides, part as excessive because the accomplished ricks. so much of them have been blown away through the robust wind. For a number of moments, the boys stood nonetheless, huddled shut jointly beside a stack of hides. part leaning opposed to it, a very good weariness came around Andrews; regardless of the chilly, his limbs loosened and his eyelids dropped. Dimly he remembered whatever that he have been informed, or that he had learn, approximately dying through freezing. With a shiver of fright he stood up clear of the hides. He flailed his hands, beating them opposed to his aspects until eventually he may possibly suppose the blood run via them extra quickly; and he started to jog round in a small circle, lifting his knees as he ran.