emiror » winter http://emiror.net Sat, 22 May 2010 19:41:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Quinzee! http://emiror.net/blog/quinzee/ http://emiror.net/blog/quinzee/#comments Thu, 29 Jan 2009 04:42:50 +0000 Tim http://emiror.net/?p=136 [...]]]> No, Quinzee isn’t a new take on Yahtzee. A quinzee is a type of snow survival shelter – something you could make if you were stranded in the snowy tundra of … say, Dunn Meadow for a few days.

Basically, you make a huge pile of snow – the bigger, the better – let it sit and sinter for a few hours and then dig out the middle, making a sort of igglo/snow cave combination shelter. It was actually quite warm inside, and you probably could have slept three people in the shelter we built. As it was, we had five of us sitting inside fairly comfortably at once.

Anyway, pictures:

]]> http://emiror.net/blog/quinzee/feed/ 1 I guess I won’t ride my bike today… http://emiror.net/blog/i-guess-i-wont-ride-my-bike-today/ http://emiror.net/blog/i-guess-i-wont-ride-my-bike-today/#comments Wed, 28 Jan 2009 14:12:53 +0000 Tim http://emiror.net/?p=133 There’s about a foot of snow on the ground already, and it’s still coming! I’ll have to actually venture outside of the house later to take some pictures…

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