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The Italian Dolomites Arabba, 80-180cm are also good, despite hard-packed snow.

Skiwatch 2011

Most major roadways and many neighborhood streets were passable, although officials cautioned that many on-ramps, acceleration lanes and shoulders were still full of hard-packed snow.

Washington lurches to its feet after hard-hitting storm Ashley Halsey III 2011

They tipped the tub up onto its side and the bathwater poured out onto the black, hard-packed dirt floor.

Bubble in the Bathtub Jo Nesbo 2011

Everybody knew the condition of the trail, that it was a hard-packed groove in the ground, on which a soft moccasin could leave no impression; and that had the ice not gone down the river, no traces would have been left by the murderers in passing from and to the mainland.

CHAPTER 28 2010

Krinak shambled across the hard-packed sand, swinging a leg as large as three of the lemkins with each step.

The Size of Things « A Fly in Amber 2009

She put her hat and coat on and went out into the cold, clear evening where hard-packed snow bounced light back up to the cloud layer over Manhattan.

Ideas of Her Own Gita M. Smith 2011

The sculpted breadth of his shoulders, the sleek line of his torso, and the hard-packed ridges of his stomach tapering into—oh, my.

Earl of Durkness Alix Rickloff 2011

She arched into the hard-packed muscles of his chest.

Earl of Durkness Alix Rickloff 2011

Buster and Helen looked up at me, and without a word, I knelt down and pressed my ear to the hard-packed dirt.

Excerpt: Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls 2009

There had been no snow for many days, and the sleds slipped along the hard-packed Yukon trail as easily as if it had been glare ice.

An Odyssey of the North 2010