“Make friends with winter,” Bert Yankielun likes to say. By that, he means dress well and eat enough high-energy foods to stay fueled so you can weather potentially harsh conditions. But Yankielun has ...

Building and sleeping in an igloo proves far harder than expected. Snow conditions must be perfect to form stable blocks.

If you've got a hankering to build a snow shelter, but lack igloo-perfect snow conditions, you can use this trick to make a pseudo-igloo very easily. Outside of the frozen north—and we're talking ...

Remember lo those many weeks ago when the ground wasn't covered in snow? Back when the blinding whiteness that surrounds us here in Cincinnati was merely a threat and not the unrelenting, seemingly ...

Warm temperatures and drizzling rain the past few days washed away the snow but not special memories for Jeff Andrini and his family in Grand Haven. In early December, Jeff Andrini and his son, Joey, ...

This weekend on the Engstligenalp plateau in Adelboden, Switzerland, a village of igloos will spring up with fervor during the annual Igloo Festival. Teams from around the world will compete in the ...

A basic snow fort or snowball fight bunker is easy enough to slap together. Snow can be rolled, scooped or shoveled and packed together into sprawling ramparts that provide some protection from your ...

Do you wanna build an igloo? AccuWeather explains how it's done. The first step is to choose a spot where the snow is at least two feet deep. Also make sure you work in a place with hard, packed snow, ...