Interesting question. I've never tried it, beyond making snowmen and snowballs.

But I remember reading about how forces are distributed in... cornflakes of all things. Apparently, there is no practical limit to how high you can pile cornflakes without crushing them, because the forces are distributed throughout the pile. I wonder if snow (not all snow is the same, so this may not apply to every situation) acts like the cornflakes? Yeah, you can compress it some, but the force required to change the volume enough to matter might be pretty high.

Hey... Mythbusters... you listening? <img src="/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />