He's talking about a wall of snow so high he can't see the top.
Where can you be sure of snow and get good value for money?
He'd seen just enough of snow to know he didn't want to see more.
The walk, through nearly five feet of snow, took him and his family 20 hours.
And then they were gone into the wall of snow.
The sun was high and the light came in over the top of the snow.
Nothing was moving, over there on the other side of the snow.
It gets 30 to 50 feet of snow each year.
There was a chance of real snow later in the night.
There was a good deal of snow and not much light.