1.   In low range, it walks with authority across a field covered by a couple of feet of packed virgin snow.

2.   They set off down the road, the dogs skidding on the hard packed snow.

3.   Almost instantly we were surrounded by silent forest, the only sound the hum of wood on firmly packed snow.

4.   After the game, father and son walk home together in the cold, the street lonely, their boots crunching audibly into the packed snow.

5.   But it was two-wheel drive and was tough to stop on packed snow and impossible on ice.

6.   Deep freeze temperatures Monday kept road salt from doing much good against the packed snow and ice that coated many local roads, local streets maintenance directors said.

7.   Environmentalists say one reason the animals leave in such large numbers is that the park plows its roads to provide packed snow for snowmobiles.

8.   Every moment in the air is a moment slower than if streaking down the packed snow.

9.   Of course, over there, they tend to use studs and drive on packed snow.