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Powder is an elegant, sleek competitor with a flare for fun.
Quick and elusive, Powder can ski and skate circles around her competition. Her large, furry feet make her especially agile on snow and ice, while her lean, supple body is built for endurance and speed. She is surprisingly strong and eager to jump and spin while twirling her ears above her head.
When Powder really flies, her long, sleek ears stream out like ribbons from behind her whiskers. Try as they may, the other mascots just can't catch their speedy little friend. Powder is joyful and delights in the spirit of competition. When she finishes second, she's the first to congratulate the champion, and when she watches her friends compete, her ears perk up and she thumps her feet to show her support.
Powder is passionate about the music and ceremony of the Games. To show her support for a performance, she'll jump skyward, smiling in an expression of joy. What really gets under her fur is when people are unsupportive: Her ears droop and she kicks up snow with her big feet. Normally, however, this Olympic mascot frolics around her buddies with a big grin and open arms.
THE SNOWSHOE HARE
 The snowshoe hare is a medium-sized rabbit with unusually long hind feet. Its toes spread out to act as snowshoes, providing the inspiration for the animal's name. The rabbit's eyes are perched high on its head to allow vision in all directions, while its long ears swivel independently to pick up sounds.
The color of the snowshoe hare's coat varies seasonally. Its rusty, grayish brown summer pelage changes to white in the winter, but its eyelids and the tips of its ears remain the same year round.
The snowshoe hare ranges in length from 413 to 518 mm long and weighs between .097 and 1.814 kg. Its ears measure 62 to 70 mm from notch to tip.
Snowshoe hares eat a variety of vegetation including green grasses, jewelweed, wild strawberry, dandelions, clovers, daisies and horsetails. These rabbits also eat new growth of trembling aspen, birches and willows. During the winter, the hare feasts on buds, twigs, bearberry, bark, balsam poplar, lodgepole pine and evergreens.
Snowshoe hares are experts at eluding predators. They often freeze in their tracks to escape detection, but they can also swim and use speeds of up to 27 miles per hour to outrun their enemies, sometimes covering 10 feet in a single bound.
The snowshoe hare's habitat stretches from Alaska to Newfoundland and goes as far south as the Rocky Mountain region of the United States.
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