For most skiers, the prime concern is how well the skis hold, particularly on hard snow and ice.

Making their way over hard snow, they stumbled and had to hold on tight, but nobody saw them fall.

He lost consciousness, then twisted and spun on the hard snow.

Not at all easy, but the hard snow gave way to my frantic pushing and I made myself a kind of burrow.

All grace gone, the broken black thing smashed down onto the concrete hard snow.

He seemed to barely move his feet but he made good time over the hard snow.

For some its hard solid snow which take away the skiing pleasure.

"But the technical events like these are won by people who ski the hard snow."

Could he jog on the hard snow, carrying a woman, and not fall?

But instead of hard snow, the surface appeared to be a translucent plastic material.