They cut the blocks of this wind-packed snow with a long, flat knife called a pana.

The new shoes didn’t have the looks or flotation of ours, but on three inches of wind-packed snow, they were the better choice.

For the greater part, his way was along relatively clear stretches of the wind-packed sand and his progress was fairly fast.

The machine bucked hard over wind-packed drifts.

Beamon burst out into the flat sunlight and started running after the man as best he could through the intermittently deep and wind-packed snow.

All I saw was a stretch of wind-packed snow, the backdrop of giant trees, the gray sky hanging low overhead like wet canvas.

The rim of the bowl was a series of undulating crests of wind-packed and wind-furrowed sand.

It began when a forty-foot-wide swath of wind-packed snow became dislodged by the echoing blast of the shotgun.

In winter the glistening white of wind-packed snow and blazing blue skies are visually striking, and the wind blows through the pass year round.

It was steep and challenging and the snow was a mixture of wind-packed powder and good spring snow.

Skiers should be at least strong intermediates but should know their limitations in varying conditions, as this region in the Coast Mountain range can get heavy and wind-packed snow.

Deep snow, ground-fast ice, and wind-packed snow can make food difficult to reach; thus snow and ice conditions have a direct influence on mortality, nutrition and productivity.

The Park Service has always plowed 43 miles of the 67 miles of highway, including the toughest section with wind-packed 30-foot snow drifts, in part because it has the needed equipment.

What Makes Igloos Work The stability of the Inuit's traditional winter dwelling, the igloo, depends on the strength of snow after the process of destructive metamorphism in wind-packed snow.