snow-crust

Once, like another Crusoe, by the edge of the river he came upon a track, -- the faint tracery of a snowshoe rabbit on the delicate snow-crust.

In a Far Country 2010

Once, like another Crusoe, by the edge of the river he came upon a track, -- the faint tracery of a snowshoe rabbit on the delicate snow-crust.

In a Far Country 2010

What caused sore feet on this journey was the stretches of snow-crust we had to cross; it was not strong enough to bear the dogs, and they broke through and cut their paws.

The South Pole~ Depot Journeys 2009

In the course of the winter I threw out half a bushel of ears of sweet corn, which had not got ripe, on to the snow-crust by my door, and was amused by watching the motions of the various animals which were baited by it.

Walden 2004

One would approach at first warily through the shrub oaks, running over the snow-crust by fits and starts like a leaf blown by the wind, now a few paces this way, with wonderful speed and waste of energy, making inconceivable haste with his

Walden 2004

I took a step, and lo, away it scud with an elastic spring over the snow-crust, straightening its body and its limbs into graceful length, and soon put the forest between me and itself — the wild free venison, asserting its vigor and the dignity of Nature.

Walden 2004

What caused sore feet on this journey was the stretches of snow-crust we had to cross; it was not strong enough to bear the dogs, and they broke through and cut their paws.

The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian antarctic expedition in the 'Fram', 1910 to 1912 2003

Death crouches in the treacherous snow-crust beneath or the poised avalanche above.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875 Various

Though the snow-crust had frozen once more, and the air was biting cold, there was a feeling in the atmosphere which stirred the blood of the skunk.

Followers of the Trail Zoe Meyer

An instant the heavy weapon seemed absolutely without motion; then the report crashed through the forest, and the snow-crust was dashed into impalpable powder by a hundred riddling pellets.

Adrift in the Ice-Fields Charles W. Hall