"snow crust" is an acceptable and commonly used phrase in written English.
It refers to the outer layer of compacted or frozen snow on the ground. Example: The hikers struggled to trek through the thick snow crust, their boots sinking with each step.
I LIE on my back on a snow crust that barely covers the frozen, stony ground.
I slalomed among some real beauts to the boulevard's end, parked, and slid on the snow crust down to the beach along the Arthur Kill, where there's a little park with a pavilion.
Early spring with high temperatures also means that no proper snow crust forms during the night, making migration more difficult and requiring more energy both from the reindeer and the herders.
The competition this year was hammered by storms, with snow crusting into paw-slashing ice that made the 6,000-acre 6,000-acreafe, setting the scoursee back more than three days.
PAGE A13 Alta Journal Avalanche Control Without Guns For nearly 60 years, the howitzer of Alta, Utah, has shot down snow crusts and ice sheets before they can slide and set off avalanches.
The best digital imagery cannot capture the granular, snow-crust texture of a woven tulle skirt in the Proenza lineup, or the compacted quality of a bouclé that the designers successfully used for coats and jackets.
Therefore I shall throwBroken bread, this sullen day,Out across the snow, Betting crust and crumbThat birds will gather, and thatOne more spring will come.
Therefore I shall throw Broken bread, this sullen day, Out across the snow, Betting crust and crumb That birds will gather, and that One more spring will come.
As Scott had done -- and was to do again -- Shackleton took ponies on his trek, animals that are horribly unfit for polar travel (they sink through the snow's crust, and all their food must be carried; by contrast, dogs eat dogs).
Her work is sere and viewers might be reminded of snow with a crust.
"It's far worse than just having snow because that crust is going to be slippery," said Susan Yeaman of the weather service in Raleigh, N.C.
