You can usually get good results opening up 1 or even 2 stops over the metered value. But try and keep some of the snow detail if you can, there
is usually a lot of texture in it. By default, the meter will try to make snow filled scenes a mid tone grey, because they are really white, you need to open up a bit, depending on the light this can be 1, 2 or even 3 stops in some cases so it is worth experimenting with the particular conditions you find yourself in. For the shots below I had the luxury of using a camera with live preview (optio S4), so could actively modify the histogram pre shot, which you obviously can't do with an SLR. This allowed me to get properly exposed highlights, without blowing out significant amounts of the scene.
  
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