At these heights it is never completely snow free, looking more like a moonscape ... harsh environment live here such as the American pika (Ochotona princeps). The pika is an adorable fuzzy ...

The American pika — a small, herbivorous, conspicuously cute mammal related to rabbits and hares — is adapted to the cold climate in high-elevation boulder fields and alpine meadows in the mountains ...

When hit by snow-storms, we would frantically wrap ourselves up and try to keep the cameras dry - but the resilient little pika would continue to hop about gathering their flowers, totally unbothered!