Without specular highlights and/or shadows from directional lighting, snow can be fickle.
Remember, snow is about 2 stops brighter than neutral grey, yet your light meter will always try to render the scene as neutral grey, dropping the values for snow. Thus, the need for Exposure Compensation in the +1½ to 2 stop range. But check your histogram to ensure highlights aren’t being blown out.
In the image you’ve shown, an Exposure increase by that much will block up what appears to be an overcast sky, which is, perhaps, the most difficult lighting under which to shoot scenes with snow. You want to raise the snow values, but the relatively bright sky prevents it.
That’s where post-capture processing comes to the rescue. In LR, nail down the White point using Auto-White point: Shift+double-click on the word Whites and LR will simply find the brightest pixel and register it as 100%. Then, use a combination of Exposure and Highlights to raise the snow values.
It’s a fine balance. Hopefully you will get lots of sunny days in Utah where you’ll be working to prevent highlight clipping, but will have great shadows to create depth and tonal variations.
Good luck!
