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pukak

POO-kahk
Crystalline, granular powder snow on the ground that looks like salt. The dry, sugary layer that forms near the base of a snowpack through temperature-gradient metamorphism.
Etymology
Inuktitut (Nunavik dialect). Documented by Smithsonian anthropologist Igor Krupnik in his survey of Inuit and Yupik snow vocabulary.
Notes
Avalanche scientists call this “depth hoar” — the weak, faceted layer responsible for many slab avalanches. The Sámi equivalent is seaŋáš.
 ice/snow Indigenous Inuktitut
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