I suspect that this is a bit bigger than the authentic igloos which the Inuit built. However, it is the first chance that I have had at making one because one needs the hard packed snow that results from a blizzard (like we got a few weeks ago). I have yet to finish the dome and it is over eight feet high already. Maybe it will be finished tomorrow. The temperature when I got up this morning -32 C. (For comparison - 4o F is equal to -40 C.) Check out the frozen mustache and beard.
Wednesday, February 14, 2007
First Effort at making an Igloo!
I suspect that this is a bit bigger than the authentic igloos which the Inuit built. However, it is the first chance that I have had at making one because one needs the hard packed snow that results from a blizzard (like we got a few weeks ago). I have yet to finish the dome and it is over eight feet high already. Maybe it will be finished tomorrow. The temperature when I got up this morning -32 C. (For comparison - 4o F is equal to -40 C.) Check out the frozen mustache and beard.
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Wow Ian, you made a great effort to built that one. I am amazed! Too bad that Ivan isn't there anymore. I am sure he would love that "snow house".
I'm impressed! Did you have any help?
That's not a snow house, it's an apartment building! Do you have a set of bunkbeds in there? Wow! It's beautiful. I wish I could see it in person. Where is it? Not beside the driveway still?
It's a two story obviously! No dad didn't have any help on this one. Mom was saying something about "he didn't have enough time to be a kid" or something like that.
WOW!!! That is impressive! How many hours did that take?
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