Winter guide: how to build an ice igloo, DIY sauna and a bushcraft shelter in a forest

How To Build An Igloo

How to build an Igloo

Igloos are built from compressed snow. You saw it into chunks like building blocks, then stack the blocks around a circular terraced hole in the snowy ground. Snow is simply semi-frozen water. It has amazing insulating properties that make it a popular shelter-building material for hibernating animals as well as humans, creatures like bears and raccoons. So how does an igloo keep you warm? An igloo floor is never just flat like the inside of a tent. It’s cut into terraces which create an upper l

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