Far Cry 2's crumby water looks much better with the fog turned up a bunch. Karr used industrial warehouse floors turned upside-down and put them just under the water's surface to make it seem like it was frozen over. It was a pretty cool idea.
Then there's also the way I did the snow on the roofs of the cabins on my Winter Lodge map.
By taking Concrete fences and placing them so that one is upside down and the other isn't, making the bottoms of them touch so the hollow part can't be seen. Then just tilt them to the angle you need and copy-paste like a maniac.

I got the inspiration for Winter Lodge from this map.
http://fcmaps.com/p/maps/maps.php?view.0A3E66B5F9F5I didn't really use any of his techniques, but once I saw that a snow map was possible I had to try it myself.
Upon closer looking at the pics it seems he was using a lot of the ideas just listed. I always though he used platform 2 for the ground and stuff...
Wait for fc3 and a colour pallet

Yeah, that could take a while and might not yield consistent results.

Jumodu had a nice snow map whit wild animals.
I think he deleted the map.
ICE AGE I think it was called.
I'm pretty sure Snakes5112 also made a snowy map at one point... not sure if it's still up. *Ice Glace* was the name if I'm correct.