Build a Snow Fort - The Quinzhee
Tuesday, January 13th, 2009
There are exactly 66 days left until the end of winter .
You have lot of snow and a lot of time left to build a snow fort . If you are at the cabin with nothing to do, looking out the window at all that unadulterated whiteness, its time to grab a shovel and get busy.
A quinzhee is a shelter made by hollowing out a pile of settled snow. This is in contrast to an igloo, which is made from blocks of snow.
If snow forts were houses, Igloos would be the large ornate mansions and Quinzhees would be efficient simple bungalows.
We’re going to show you how to build a snow fort equivalent of the simple, modern snow bungalow.
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