A fine dry snow, intolerable to face.

January 19. 

A snow-storm with very high wind all last night and to-day. 

Though not much snow falls (perhaps seven or eight inches), it is exceedingly drifted, so that the first train gets down about noon and none gets up till about 6 p. m.! 

There is no vehicle passing the house before 2 p. m.!

A fine dry snow, intolerable to face.

H. D. Thoreau, Journal, January 19, 1857

It is exceedingly drifted, so that the first train gets down about noon and none gets up till about 6 p. m.! See February 18, 1856 ("Yesterday’s snow drifting. No cars from above or below till 1 P. M.”)

A fine dry snow, intolerable to face. See December 14, 1859 ("Snow-storms might be classified. This is a fine, dry snow, drifting nearly horizontally from the north, so that it is quite blinding to face, almost as much so as sand."); January 19, 1852  ("It is pleasant to make the first tracks in this road through the woods, . . . the fine, dry snow blowing and drifting still.")