my favorite type of snow to walk through is when there's a thin layer of ice crust over the snow and so when you're walking in it you don't break through right away but as you weight your foot you create this kind of depression--like this shallow circular zone where your foot was. You know what I mean? Like if you were stepping in water (liquid water) and it creates this ripple but it's just one ripple that's frozen in place. It's very satisfying when it breaks only a little bit. I'm going to call this snow 'ripple snow' because of my ripple analogy.
While we're on the subject, ripple is an underrated word. Let me give you the etymology.
Ripple showed up sometime in the early 17th century and we just straight up don't know where it came from.
Oh just kidding. The OED says that the earliest evidence of ripple is from 1350 and is inherited from "Germanic".
Regardless its origins are still a bit murky. Good. Good job, ripple. Keep your secrets.
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