glade

metsäaukio An open passage through a wood; a grassy open or cleared space in a forest.
2003, Newsweek, Travel: http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2003/11/23/travel-splendor-in-the-trees.htmlSplendor In The Trees, Nov 23, 2003

... are creating more "glades," or cleared trails through the woods, for less experienced (blue) skiers. Theyre a throwback to the first days of skiing, before resorts cut wide swaths of trees, and machines rolled and packed the snow.''

... and meads and glades so eternally vernal, that the grass shot up by the spring, untrodden, unwilted, remains at midsummer.

In the latter days of a ferocious winter, the sun dropped earthwards, having on this day pulled clear of its sluggish trajectory casting a few meek rays on the redoubtable snow and frost of the mountain glade. — Vignette: http://writeanything.wordpress.com/2009/08/17/vignette-a-writing-exercise/ A Writing Exercise