How Do You Make The Perfect Snowball?
The perfect snowball… when you’ve made it, you’ll know. It’s unmistakable – that perfect weight and texture for packing, the ease on the elbow as you throw it, splattering perfectly across your hapless victim upon impact. So how do we make the best possible snowball, the winter projectile of our dreams? You have to know where to get the best snow, and then how to shape it for best results. They say no two snowflakes are the same, and the same is true of snowballs. But there are different kinds of snow that we can define. There’s slush, light powder, heavy snow and popcorn snow, to name a few kinds. The Inuit have many more names for snow than we use (though I bet we Seattleites have them beat in the rain department), and we can learn a lot from their distinctions; we’re down here trying to make the best possible snowball, but for them, knowledge of snow is a matter of survival. • Moisture and air content. You know that light powder mentioned earlier? It is light-weight because of its
