My 'Quinze' snow shelter

[Leonidas]

Thanks for sharing, great pictures too......
How many folk can claim they built a quinze in the UK

Nice

Tom

 

[Gill]

That looks great John,i,ve wanted to make one since the snow came but i,ve not got round to it yet.

 

[Chambers]

Just finished building mine, kept thinking dont make it to high because I dont want it to cave in, turns out its not high enough, all in all though I am over the moon can sit down in it, three adults comfortably. Two air vents plus a candle vent. Gonna see what its like tonight when its dark and chilly

 

[FGYT]

remember Dad making me and Igloo when i was a kid back in the 70s when we had real snow an the country didnt grind to a halt

he use a 4ltr Iceceam tub to make snow bricks and stacked em round then sloped the first row so it spiraled up worked quite well but he is a builder


ATB

Duncan

 

[GlenM]

Been snowing has it ?

 

[jon r]

Just finished building mine, kept thinking dont make it to high because I dont want it to cave in, turns out its not high enough, all in all though I am over the moon can sit down in it, three adults comfortably. Two air vents plus a candle vent. Gonna see what its like tonight when its dark and chilly

Excellent! Do you have pictures?

 

[_scorpio_]

whats a cold well? im going to try this tomorrow too, it has been snowing all day and we have had about another 7" on top of what was already there, and its still going!

 

[Cyclingrelf]

I'm in the middle of making one of these at the moment. I've made the big pile of snow, will hollow it out tomorrow morning (assuming it isn't thawing too much by then)
Thanks for the inspiration

 

[redandshane]

Funny enough amusing as it is really


Wate of time and energy

All gone now and we can access our natural resources again
Thanks

 

[Chinkapin]

Well jon_r first the igloo and now this. I think you should consider a name change to "arctic architect."

Great work in both cases. When I was a kid in Michigan (long ago and in a galaxie far away), we would get snow drifts so deep that we never had to build an igloo or mound up snow, we would just tunnel into a drift.

The coolest thing was that sometime out on the lake we could sometimes find small ice caves that were quite comfy.

Keep up the good work, I guarantee you that you will remember your snow shelters the rest of your life. I'm 69 and I remember mine like they were yesterday.

 

[caliban]

Now that's cool, and your igloo was just fantastic.