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Snow Shelters

There are many different ways to build a snow shelter. One of the most common shelter buildings is a Quinzhee, a Quinzhee takes a long time to build but it’s great for hanging out and staying warm. In order to build a Quinzhee you will have to find a place where there is lot of snow so you can build deep down to keep warm. Once you find your shelter you should probably pack the snow down so you’re working on a flat surface. Take all the extra snow on the sides and make a center that is about 6 feet tall. Than the hard work comes in, you should take the shovel and start digging into the center so you have that opening to sit in. One thing you will have to make sure is to not dig so far in that you break the wall on the other side. If this happens just simply take a pile of snow and pack it in to cover the big opening. Once your done its time to just sit back and relax with you friends/family.

Another well known snow shelter is the igloo. The Inuit people first thought of the idea of the igloo. Igloos are made out of compacted snow/ice; the snow is traced into blocks to make it look cooler. Igloos are shaped into circular forms with an opening in fort so to enter the fort. The most common place you will find igloos is in the Artic. As every fort there is a process and a long one too. First thing is of course make a smooth, flat surface to stomp it down with your boot. Than you take a whole bunch of extra snow and build it down into a block form keep doing this until your fort is formed. But you always have to remember that the entrance is always similar and than it builds into the main area of the fort.

The Snow Castle of Kemi is well known as the biggest fort in the world. This fort is rebuilt every winter and is open for the public to stay and take a look around. The Castle was so popular that 300,000 people visited it in 1996, ever since then they have kept on building it every winter. The Castle is 3 stories high and it covers about 13,000 to 20,000 square meters of land. The highest and longest wall in the whole hotel is about 1,000 meters long. The castle isn’t just for looking around but also for staying the night and it has a chapel and a restaurant.