We often hear about how conditions might be on other planets and moons in our solar system and one of the popular terms seems to be “there might be methane ‘snow’” - OK, i completely understand this - shift the whole temperature scale downwards and water will behave like rocks, other chemicals that we commonly think of as gases will be liquids, vapours etc.
But if there was methane snow, what would the crystals look like?
From here:
http://domeofthesky.com:81/2005/01/14
"“Titan’s halos will be very different from ours,” says atmospheric optics expert Les Cowley. “Titan’s atmosphere is intensely cold and may contain floating ‘diamond dust’ crystals not of water-ice but of frozen methane and possibly ethane. Methane crystals could be square pyramids, 8-sided octahedra or 14-sided cuboctahedra. Ethane crystals are hexagonal prisms like those of water-ice, but refracting light far more strongly.” "
Hmmm… okay, but what would it actually feel like to stand on methane snow? 
Any notions??
Your link doesn’t work for me.
Not recommended. Wear thick shoes.
We touched on that in an earlier thread about surival on Titan in a space suit; not only would the snow be incredibly cold, but any body (or other) heat leaking out of your suit would cause the environment nearby to begin boiling rapidly, which could be interestingly dangerous.
I meant in shoes. 
Thought it was really interesting coming upon this thread today because I was just listening to a passage in diane duane’s “a wizard alone” where Kit finds himself in an odd pocket universe with titan-eous conditions… (he’s protected by a magical forcefield against the cold and poisonous chemicals, of course…)
“Kit felt the odd, soft squeak of it under his sneakers, and understood the confusion. ‘It feels more like talcum powder than snow. Or – no, more like cornstarch!!’ For that strange, squeaky sensation persisted, no matter how the stuff packed under Kit’s feet.”
Diane is often fairly good about scientific details, and I love the descriptiveness of that little passage – was wondering if anybody had any clue whether she was right about the consistency of methane snow being anything like cornstarch.