hardpack

A material (such as dirt, gravel, or snow) compressed into a hard, smooth surface for roads etc.

The muzzle was filled for some inches with hardpack snow, after he had dug that out with his knife, he found the lock frozen up and snow all over the nipple.

Field reports indicate that the new cutting edge here pictured performs exceptionally well in rock, shale, limestone, hardpack clay, sandstone and other tight formations.

A hard package, especially of cigarettes.

That's where she met Vic--tall, hawkfaced, blackhaired, wearing tight Levis and a black T-shirt with the pocket over his heart stretched around a hardpack box of Parliaments.

Anderson came over to me and I noticed his ammo bandoliers were full of Marlboro hardpacks.