> > No mosquitoes unless there's snow and it isn't camping.
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> Ah, but then you've never been Winter camping!

Read my above more carefully....

> That's when you build Quincys as shelter instead of erecting tents. You find a large drift of good, wet snow and pile it up in a round 12 feet high and stamp it down. Then dig out the insides to form a poor-man's igloo (you make the igloo doorway downwind, of course). You light a small fire inside to glaze the interior and sleep huddled together with friends in your warm winter thermal papooses. In the morning, you get up and jig for fish through the ice along the frozen river. Who says you can't have fun roughing it?
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> Wolfspirit

Build a Better Igloo:

*Stamp down a patch of snow after every major fall.
*At end of winter [or close to it] when there are several feet of compressed snow, cut out blocks. They will be hard-packed and sturdy.
*Fashion into circle with opening for entrance. Build up in rows decreasing in size until you can fit some over the top.
*Ummm.... that's it, I just like putting *s.