The phrase "compressed snow" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe snow that has been compacted, often due to pressure or weight, such as in skiing or snowboarding contexts.
Example: "The skiers enjoyed the smooth ride down the mountain, gliding effortlessly over the compressed snow."
Alternatives: "packed snow" or "firm snow."
It sucks having fifteen pounds of compressed snow fall on you.
Annual layers are often clearly visible on the vertical side of a new tabular berg, which implies that the freeboard of the iceberg is mainly composed of compressed snow rather than ice.
In the core of the car-free historic centre, locals have adopted a peculiar waddle, achieved by short shuffling steps, in an attempt not to slip over on the compressed snow which covers the city's beautiful marble-paved squares and alleys.
In Greenland, sailing out in the Davis Strait, past Nuuk Harbor, trawling slowly, the ice Kleist was looking for wasn't just any kind of ice but icebergs made of compressed snow — snow that has fallen for tens of thousands of years — which have broken off from the glacier, in a process called "calving".
This talk will review the design and realization processes for a few large-scale sculptures based on Collins' geometrical inspirations, involving materials that include: compressed snow, translucent epoxy, cast bronze, and carved granite.
Narsarsuaq -- This is the place to see blue ice glaciers; a phenomenon caused from compressed snow and increased size of air crystals.
There, the increasing pressure of ever-deepening layers compresses snow into ice, which then begins to flow toward the sea.
"The wind pushed (and compressed) the snow toward one end of the lake where the wave action and friction between the balls caused them to become round," he said via email.
Unlike other winter service vehicles, snow sweepers do not compress the snow, leaving a rough, high friction, surface behind them.
Early snow groomers were used by residents of rural areas to compress the snow close to their homes, and consisted of a heavy roller hauled by oxen which compacted the snow to make a smooth surface for sledging.
Early communities in the northern regions of the United States and Canada even used animal-drawn snow rollers, the earliest winter service vehicles, to compress the snow covering roads.
