HAWAIIAN SNOW RIDE: A snowboarder enjoyed riding down snow at the summit of Mauna Kea on the Big Island last weekend. One of the mountain's observatory telescopes is seen in the distance in this image from video taken by KITV.
Big Islanders awoke to clear views of a white-crested Mauna Kea yesterday after last week's storms dumped about a foot of snow on Hawaii's tallest peak.