In his novel, Sackett, Louis L'Amour makes this statement: "It was the worst sleet storm I'd ever seen, worse even than the pogonips in Nevada."
A pogonip is "a dense winter fog containing frozen particles that is formed in deep mountain valleys of the western U.S." According to a reporter with the Reno Gazette Journal, "the freezing fog so adversely affected the native peoples’ lives that they called it 'pogonip,' which translates to 'white death.' They stayed inside their shelters until the weather warmed."
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