11. Snow patch herb fields occur in places where snow remains for a large portion of the summer and are very rare.12. These sub-processes include erosion ( if any ) or initiation of erosion, weathering, and meltwater flow from beneath the snow patch . 13. Snow patches collected from deep pit holes were used even late in the 20th century to provide the few hamlets with water.14. It is also possible to find algae associated with rocks or living in the thin film of melted water in the snow patches . 15. The main hiking season is usually from July through September, though lingering snow patches may sometimes be found into August of high snow years. 16. The big snow patch is one piece of the real estate that makes up ITT Automotive's Brimley test center a few miles from Sault Ste. 17. "' Snezhnika "'(, " the snow patch " ) is a glacieret in the Pirin Mountains of Bulgaria, a remnant of the former Vihren Glacier. 18. Both ways the route will start in low birch forest and gradually enter long talus slopes and plains with many snow patches in the summer. 19. For example, a snowfall in mid-December 2009 on the summits of some of the hills created snow patches that lasted in some cases until May 2010. 20. The peak was named in 1963 by members of the Mountaineering Club of Alaska because a snow patch on its north face resembles a Polar bear skin.