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How to Build an Igloo: And Other Snow Shelters
How are the ice blocks of igloos so perfectly formed and fitted, and able, it’s been said, to withstand the weight of a polar bear? How can you determine if the fresh snow that’s fallen outside your front door is as good for making a slab shelter as a snowman? What is a slab shelter, anyway? For that matter, what are drift caves, spruce traps, snow block walls, and bivy bag shelters, and how would you go about building them, whether for winter fun or protection from the weather?
In this instructive, whimsical, illustrated manual, Norbert E. Yankielun, a seasoned cold-regions explorer and researcher, takes readers step-by-step through the process of constructing and inhabiting a range of useful snow structures―from the most basic to the more complex. Whether you’re a veteran backcountry skier or a backyard builder, this is one book you won’t want to be without. 100 black-and-white line drawings
In this instructive, whimsical, illustrated manual, Norbert E. Yankielun, a seasoned cold-regions explorer and researcher, takes readers step-by-step through the process of constructing and inhabiting a range of useful snow structures―from the most basic to the more complex. Whether you’re a veteran backcountry skier or a backyard builder, this is one book you won’t want to be without. 100 black-and-white line drawings
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208 pages, Paperback
First published November 17, 2007
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March 4, 2024
Who knew this was an actual science!!
December 5, 2018
A commonsense manual on building various types of snow and ice shelters.
I was interested that the author calls the shallower snow around a tree, a "spruce trap" instead of a "tree well," apparently the more common term and the one I hear around here.
I would never have thought of it as a source of emergency shelter, whatever it is called.
I was interested that the author calls the shallower snow around a tree, a "spruce trap" instead of a "tree well," apparently the more common term and the one I hear around here.
I would never have thought of it as a source of emergency shelter, whatever it is called.
February 17, 2019
Although I did not build an igloo, this was a pretty informative book!
June 30, 2008
A DIY IGLOO!
I am not a huge fan of snow, and in Pittsburgh we usually get pleanty in the winter. This book actually got me excited about that fact, because with the snow that nature provides and this book that Norbert E. Yankielun provides I can attempt to build and igloo!
I am not a huge fan of snow, and in Pittsburgh we usually get pleanty in the winter. This book actually got me excited about that fact, because with the snow that nature provides and this book that Norbert E. Yankielun provides I can attempt to build and igloo!
February 3, 2015
I hate snow. I hate cold. But I like being prepared, so when I saw this book in amazing condition for only a couple bucks at a thrift store, I had to have it. Simple instructions for building a variety of shelters out of snow! Always good knowledge to have when you live in a blizzard state.
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April 28, 2008Perfect for those cold days.
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