“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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Building an igloo took far more effort than expected, and sleeping in one proved even harder. After two days of labor, ...

(WBIR) Winter weather in East Tennessee has just about worn out its welcome. Still, there are some finding away to enjoy the snow. Holton Siegling and his family used decided that instead of building ...

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 ...