Three days later he rode with two men through the crusted snow, dark, small figures like brown withered leaves against the white earth.

A crusted snow covered the ground, belonging neither to winter nor to spring.

In the morning they had made a small grave in the crusted snow.

She stared absently out into the empty night as they trudged across the crusted snow.

She laid the puppy down and began chipping through the crusted snow.

The shadows of the trees formed a blue latticework on the crusted snow.

He took a couple of steps, his boots crunching on crusted snow.

The only sound was the crunch of their feet on the crusted snow.

I turned and ran over the crusted snow.

Drifted piles of old, crusted snow began to appear around the trail as they went on up.