Sentence:  Later, she'd seen the snow on Saint Lawrence Island, the snow on the Olympics, the pwder high in the Cascades, the Brooks Range, the Maine snow, the Rocky Mountain snow, the blowing around high plains snow, the deep snow at her home in Idaho, the hushed snow in the boreal forest of Northern Canada, the sea-driven snow at Prince Ruper and Ketchikan, Nome, Kotzebue, and Valdez, snow in the Arctic adhering to the now vanishing ice, the dry <WSD>skiff</WSD> of snow on the Alaskan tundra stitched by the silvery, needle-like oil pipeline.c 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  a deep blanket of snow covering the ground