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How do you build your snow forts?
(lemmy.today)
By drinking liquid nitrogen.
It's been decades since the UK was cold and snowy enough for us to be able to build snow forts. Iirc it was possibly as far back as 1989.
Fucking North Atlantic current keeping our climate mild.
Right. These days, in most of Europe you have to order your snow online and hope it doesn't melt in transit.
It's like:
"I'd like 5 snow to go, please"
"How much? Ill have you know that in my days, snow just fell from the sky, for free!"
"Stop laughing, it's true! People even hated it."
And humid 😰
Pile the snow into a big mound, pack it down, then hollow out the middle. Camping overnight is optional.
This is the way. I grew up farther north (compared to now) with decent mounds from snow plows so it was just a matter of waiting for those and then tunneling into them.
These days I shovel the snow from a larger area to build my mound before tunneling. Kids love it regardless ☺️
This is delightful. I haven't quinzhee camped since I was a teenager, but once my friends and I made one tall enough to stand in with the help of a friendly gravekeeper and his backhoe.
Thanks! This has become a January tradition with my kids. We are trying a different winter camp location in 2026, and I really hope there will be enough snow to do this again!
I was always a burrower when a bit of extra wall on top. Kind of dreamed of being more mason.
There hasn't been enough snow for that in a while. Many years ago I used some big plastic boxes to pack and mold snow bricks though, and that really workes great for build a little "iglo". Stood for over a week, was the last thing that melted in the garden. Good memories :)
With the door wide open. The snow fort is a trap. Im not in it. Im in the snow bank under the snow waiting for you to approach it. Its over for you and you dont know it.
I'm just impressed you engineered a snow fort with a door that opens.
You still get...snow?
That even stays?
I steal it from behind the ice rink.
As kids, my brothers and I would wait for the public snowplow to clear the road and would dig tunnels in the piles they created…typical gross kids. We had to take our snow gear off at the entryway of the (military) housing unit we lived in so it didn’t matter. It was fun.
I've never seen snow except through an airplane window
Wow! Are you interested in seeing snow in person someday, or nah?
If only it wasn't so cold! :)
I build quinzhees, a snow shelter that can be built at any temperature below freezing. Once the temperature gets below minus 5, snow no longer packs. Quinzhees can be built at any temperature.
What hell is "snow?"
In this context? Cocaine.
It's been a long time since I built a snow fort, but I was partial to the mason method. Of course there must be a snowball cache! Because I know my sister is lurking somewhere....
If only...
this post was submitted on 08 Nov 2025
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