Cold Weather Survival: Eating Snow

A good point about putting the snow in a water bottle and using body heat to melt it Steve, I've found a lot of people don't know that tip.
On a related note, any source of water in the wild should always be purified before drinking it, I understand that isn't always possible, but it's still a good idea.

Brings back memories: As kids we always ate snow (even made snow ice cream) and sucked on icicles off the roof.