Building a Quinzee With Chad

While on a school camping trip, my students, especially Chad, helped me build a quinzee. This video shows (quickly) how it's done.

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• douglassimms1963
• Chad
• quinzee
• snow
• fort
• hut
• shelter
• survival
• winter
• cold
• weather
• comfy
• warm
• air
• holes
• shovel
• doug
• simms

[dragonslayer1003]

what are the sticks for?

[douglassimms1963]

If the sticks are 30cm long and you stop digging whenever you expose the end of one, the result will be walls that are 30cm thick, which is just right.

[Huntron]

Me and my roommates built a huge quinzee in our backyard, I was wondering if anyone knew how big you can build it without the snow being too heavy.

HINT: Use the tarp to drag snow out of the igloo and pour it on top or on the sides.

[douglassimms1963]

Don't put snow on top. It will become too heavy, and if it collapses it could pin you down and smother you.

[cowplop4587]

this is actually a small one i like to build them so i can sit up and it can house about 4 people.

[douglassimms1963]

Quinzees big enough for 4 people can be difficult to get warm enough.

[TallGirlSarah01]

so basically: you get a big pile of snow, shape it, put sticks in the top and dig the middle of it out? that seems easy enough :) x

[dougsimmsonline]

@thedemonsasuke It took an hour to make the snow-pile and an hour to dig it out. It was big enough for only one of us, but was almost big enough for two.

[thedemonsasuke]

How long did it take and could it fit you and Chad?

[JayDeekakekagumick]

how do you move so fast???

[josiah987]

You made your quinzee exactly the same way me and my pals did it lolz a person when inside with one of those garderning plows and dug out snow while I dug the snow out and either put it on cracks or a place where it needed snow

[lakemanrmss]

nice quinzee I cant wait to make another one this winter.