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n. dirt or gravel compressed into a hard, smooth surface for roads etc.
Usage examples of "hardpack".
When he did, he set arrow and bow back in the quiver and began to shuffle his way over the hardpack toward them, wondering why so many Grannach came when before only Colun and Marjia had ventured into the valley.
Over long winters and too-short summers, it has driven the snow on the north side into ice covered with hardpack, covered in turn with shifting, drifting, and treacherous powder that flows downward for kays into the top of the forest below.
Their riders had held their mounts to a walk while trusting otherwise to the instinct and surefootedness of the animals on the hardpacked roadway.
Andy offered him a metal hand but Benny ignored it, flopping out onto the hardpacked earth.
There had been no snow for many days, and the sleds slipped along the hardpacked Yukon trail as easily as if it had been glare ice.
Together, he and she plodded along the wet, hardpacked sand, examining jelly fish, shells, and pebbles, the debris tossed up by the waves.
Rope still twisted around his right hand, he turned away from the mule, sat on the hardpacked dirt and wrapped his arms around her.
He hadn't even hurried down the hardpack, knowing if she looked out and saw him walking down the road, her eyes would flick over him, then flick back to the screen.