"The trail was heavy with new-fallen snow, and they had come far, and the runners, burdened with flint-like quarters of frozen moose, clung tenaciously to the unpacked surface and held back with a stubbornness almost human."
"Some of those pines are green, their branches holding new-fallen snow."
"They can even determine if snow on the ground is new or old -- dirtier, older snow is less reflective than new-fallen snow."