Why can you jump into a pile of snow and not get hurt?

Generally, when you jump off of a 3-meter wall onto the ground you would experience a great deal of pain. Assuming a person weighs 60kg, the max height they reach in their fall is 3 meters off the ground, and they are slowed down by the ground over the course of 0.10s, then they will experience a force of 4600.8N. This would be quite the painful fall and you would likely experience some bruising at the very least if you were unable to catch yourself and slow your fall down further. Fortunately, with a good amount of light snow on the ground, let’s call it 1 meter of unpacked snow, the snow compacts down as a person falls through it and gradually slows your fall. The exact compactness of the snow and how far it allows you to fall through it are difficult to know exactly, so I just assumed a regular fall onto the ground would take 0.1s and when falling through the snow it would take 0.15s. If this were the case, then the force a person experiences to stop their fall when there is snow would be 3067.2N. The snow allows them to slow down over a much longer course of time, causing their acceleration in the upward direction to be much slower. This in turn causes the force they experience to also be much less than when they fall directly onto solid ground. Hopefully when we get some more snow we are all able to test this out from a safe height.