{"id":52490,"date":"2024-01-07T09:51:17","date_gmt":"2024-01-07T15:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/?p=52490"},"modified":"2024-01-07T22:09:10","modified_gmt":"2024-01-08T04:09:10","slug":"how-to-build-a-quinzee-snow-shelter-illustrated-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/skills\/survival\/how-to-build-a-quinzee-snow-shelter-illustrated-guide\/","title":{"rendered":"Skill of the Week: How to Build a Quinzee Snow Shelter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/\/2015\/12\/Quinzee-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-180437\" src=\"https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2015\/12\/SOTW-Quinzee-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"1297\" srcset=\"https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2015\/12\/SOTW-Quinzee-2.jpg 750w, https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2015\/12\/SOTW-Quinzee-2-320x553.jpg 320w, https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2015\/12\/SOTW-Quinzee-2-640x1107.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>An important part of manhood has always been about having the competence to be effective in the world \u2014 having the breadth of skills, the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/character\/manly-lessons\/develop-savoir-faire-james-bond\/\">savoir-faire<\/a>, to handle any situation you find yourself in. With that in mind, each Sunday we\u2019ll be republishing one of the illustrated guides from our archives, so you can hone your manly know-how week by week.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Whether you&#8217;re trying to survive in the frigid wilderness or you&#8217;re camping out in the winter for fun, building a quinzee is a great option for creating a shelter from the elements. All you need for its construction is a big pile of snow, which you then hollow out. Because it lacks a skeletal support structure, you&#8217;ll want to keep your quinzee relatively small \u2014 ideally building it for three people at the most. Shoveling all that snow works up a sweat, and snow will fall on you as you hollow out the inside, so be sure to change into dry clothes when you&#8217;re done to prevent hypothermia.<\/p>\n<p>In today&#8217;s illustrated guide, we show you how to build your own&nbsp;quinzee with tips from&nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Winter-Wilderness-Primitive-Survival-Skills\/dp\/0801479959\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1449199095&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=winter+in+the+wilderness&amp;linkCode=sl1&amp;tag=stucosuccess-20&amp;linkId=00ab23b5358d8be2fd866bdb6fd4ba15\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Winter in the Wilderness<\/a>&nbsp;<\/em>by Dave Hall.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Like this illustrated guide? Then you\u2019re going to love our book&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Illustrated-Art-Manliness-How-Self-Defense\/dp\/0316362654\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1500388686&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=illustrated+art+of+manliness&amp;linkCode=sl1&amp;tag=artofmanliness03-20&amp;linkId=e447a6af40e5ceee8e39cf768219ac51\"><em>The Illustrated Art of Manliness<\/em><\/a>! Pick up a copy on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Illustrated-Art-Manliness-How-Self-Defense\/dp\/0316362654\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1500388686&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=illustrated+art+of+manliness&amp;linkCode=sl1&amp;tag=artofmanliness03-20&amp;linkId=e447a6af40e5ceee8e39cf768219ac51\">Amazon<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An important part of manhood has always been about having the competence to be effective in the world \u2014 having the breadth of skills, the&nbsp;savoir-faire, to handle any situation you find yourself in. With that in mind, each Sunday we\u2019ll be republishing one of the illustrated guides from our archives, so you can hone your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":180444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,229,42259,277],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-52490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-illustrated-guides","category-skills","category-survival"],"featured_image_urls":{"large":"https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Quinzee-BLANK-538x280.jpg","aom":"https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Quinzee-BLANK-372x230.jpg","reactor-320":"https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Quinzee-BLANK-320x210.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52490"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":180457,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52490\/revisions\/180457"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52490"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=52490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}