A basic snow fort or snowball fight bunker is easy enough to slap together. Snow can be rolled, scooped or shoveled and packed together into sprawling ramparts that provide some protection from your ...

Using a simple triangular frame, a few shovels packed with snow and ice and a deep respect for traditional building methods, New York-based artist and designer Nikolas Bentel manged to construct an ...

“Make friends with winter,” Bert Yankielun likes to say. By that, he means dress well and eat enough high-energy foods to stay fueled so you can weather potentially harsh conditions. But Yankielun has ...

Between snowball fights, sledding or just romping around in the light, fluffy powder, there is something special about a day spent playing in the snow. One snow-day activity that stands out above the ...

The Aleut and Inuit have many names for snow; to one whose world is made up of snow, it is important to distinguish between the various forms. The best types of snow to use for building an igloo are ...

Ask almost any experienced igloo builder and he'll tell you that igloo construction is something everyone can learn to do. Indeed, during his two years studying arctic survival skills from the ...