The paper describes the results of field observations of the height of snow cover and the depth of soil freezing in different types of plain reliefs of southwestern Kamchatka during the two winter periods (1959/60 and 1960/61). The works were carried out on previously selected profiles. The observations revealed extreme variability in the distribution of snow cover and depth of soil freezing. In the coastal areas and 24—25 km inland from the Avanchinskaya Guba and the Pacific the decisive factor in the distribution of the height of snow cover is the strong wind regime, while on farther areas the major part belongs to vegetation. The depth of seasonal freezing depends on many factors, the leading one, however, is the height of snow cover. A schematic map of distribution of snow cover height in the period of maximum snow accumulation is presented.