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  • But because a unplowable layer of ice had formed on streets - called "hardpack" - they will need more salting and hopefully higher temperatures to facilitate melting.

    Phillies Zone 2011

  • In theory, the red sludge is put into a holding pond, where water evaporates and turns it into a hardpack that can be used for construction projects.

    Hungary Toxic Sludge Flood Residents Return To Town, Kolontar, Despite Health And Safety Concerns AP 2010

  • Once you got off the fairways, it was wiregrass and hardpack sand.

    A Classic Returns to Its Natural State Jeff Neuman 2011

  • In theory, the red sludge is put into a holding pond, where water evaporates and turns it into a hardpack that can be used for construction projects.

    Hungary Toxic Sludge Flood Residents Return To Town, Kolontar, Despite Health And Safety Concerns AP 2010

  • There was only one way to get to Chiron, and that was by a hardpack road, six miles long from the desert floor and barely wide enough for a single truck, that meandered up the mountainside.

    The Thieves of Darkness Richard Doetsch 2010

  • There was only one way to get to Chiron, and that was by a hardpack road, six miles long from the desert floor and barely wide enough for a single truck, that meandered up the mountainside.

    The Thieves of Darkness Richard Doetsch 2010

  • The wide, dark horizon, the pale hardpack of stones and pebbles, the drifts of sand.

    Vicious Grace M.L.N. Hanover 2010

  • The wide, dark horizon, the pale hardpack of stones and pebbles, the drifts of sand.

    Vicious Grace M.L.N. Hanover 2010

  • There was only one way to get to Chiron, and that was by a hardpack road, six miles long from the desert floor and barely wide enough for a single truck, that meandered up the mountainside.

    The Thieves of Darkness Richard Doetsch 2010

  • The wide, dark horizon, the pale hardpack of stones and pebbles, the drifts of sand.

    Vicious Grace M.L.N. Hanover 2010

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  • snow that's been packed together to a tough icy layer

    January 18, 2013