According to Robert Macfarlane’s book Landmarks, long, thin patches of snow that have not yet melted are called snow bones. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Snow Bones”
Here’s another term from the book Landmarks by Robert McFarlane about terms from nature.
Snow bones, what are those? Snow bones in Yorkshire are long thin patches of snow still lying after a thaw.
You’ve seen these?
Yeah, yeah. They’re left because of small depressions in the land, maybe, or the trees shadowed that part but not another part, right?
Right. Snow bones.
That’s cool.
Kind of reminds me of pizza bones.
Pizza bones, yeah.
It’s a hard crust that nobody wants.
Unless you have a bowl of marinara, then you’re good.
Then you’re really good.
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