He took the step and then turned around and, with his knife, loosened a rock or two under the snow crust.

Then, when the snow crusts, they can browse all along the paths for weeks, tunneling far under.

A ragged edge of broken snow crust ran just below his position, as from a recent snowslide.

He had poked his arm up through the snow crust and waggled it.

He slitheringly walked toward it across the bediamonded snow crust.

There are times when the snow crust is so heavy that deer will sink only a few inches.

Here and there, black stone outcropped from the snow crust.

Grunting, she sat down on the end of the pier and then stepped onto the snow crust below.

For a few square feet of crocuses to pierce a snow crust, as is their late winter wont.

There was no sound but the crunch of hooves breaking through the snow crust.