It's a great destination in a good snow year: much less so when the snow's thin on the lower slopes.

The thin snow fell on us like a wet veil.

Here and there was a patch of thin snow.

The brown grass of winter showed through the thin snow.

A thin snow covered the plains in the morning, to the amazement of everyone.

The sun soon melted the thin snow, and for the next week the days were hot again.

The boy sat down in the thin snow and wept.

Coming up to put them there, the stranger had left footprints in the thin snow.

Officials said the runway was covered with thin wet snow.

The day had turned dark and grey, thin snow already beginning to fall.