“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 ...

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, ...

Chilled from a day in the snow, stiff from hours of shoveling, we worm down the tunnel of the igloo one after the other. The wind's howl mutes to a low hum. The day's gray light goes black. I follow ...

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 ...

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 ...

When building an igloo for six hours in minus 54 degrees, Dylan Clark adheres to this ratio: For every second his hand is exposed to the cold, it takes 10 minutes back in the glove to warm it. “It’s ...

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 ...