what lies beneath this hump of snow?

On a recent snowshoe/hike up to the Owl’s Head Lookout near Elizabethtown in the Adirondacks. (On the way down, Sarah and I made a breakthrough discovery: the snow on the trail was packed down enough to skip the snowshoes and just hike normally!) I went a little nuts taking pictures of shadows on the snow. I won’t bore away my few readers by posting all of them, but here’s one.

(This photo reminds me of that Far Side cartoon where a snake with seven large lumps in its stomach is seen slithering out of Snow White’s house.)

what lies beneath this hump of snow?