Up here in Winterpeg we are just finishing up a wicked 45 day stretch of -30 to -50c weather. Like most places this one was pretty severe, even by Winnipeg standards. In fact, it was reported that on NYE we were actually colder than Mars.
Anyways, during this stretch it got me thinking. I do a lot of highway travel across the province, and a few times I found myself in pretty dire situations. What would happen if I was stranded off road somewhere and lost the ability to use my car as shelter? Screw that noise.... I set out to find easy, reliable forms of winter shelter.
The best and most logical was the quinzee. So out to the backyard in -40c weather I went to build one in adverse conditions.
It took me about 4 hours total... Longer than a survival situation would require, but if you had more than one person that time could be cut down significantly
<note: I tried to load a pic from the app but was notified that I couldn't... I'll find away to tomorrow.)
Has anyone else constructed one of these?
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