snowface
nounEtymology From snow + face.
1
A snow-covered mountain feature.
- For the easiest descent, drop west from the summit into the Granite Chief Wilderness via a broad snowface, then climb back to the summit or any of several saddles, and descend Ward Creek back to parking.1998, Louis W. Dawson, Wild Snow: A Historical Guide to North American Ski Mountaineering, page 36:
- Related terms
- rockface