Construction of Quinze
1 Arrange the backpacks and the remaining equipment in the cone. This cone will enable the formation of a snow dome and reduce the amount of snow needed to build a quinze.
2 Snowy rocket or shovel, cover your backpacks with snow, forming a dit. Wait around 30 minute, then embry the next layer of snow. During this time the first layer will freeze, creating hard, Ice vault over backpacks.
3 When the snow cover above the cone will reach about a meter thickness, it should be polished its surface, and then leave for an hour, to hardened. This time is needed for it, that the snow was crystallized and the process of binding its particles into one ice mass took place.
4 Uzbieraj sporo patyków długości około 60 cm. Pour them into the snow starting from the top of the drift. Always pus them to the same depth, You will know, what sizes have a dried cavity. They should all be directed towards the center of the dome.
5 Podkop się pod quinze i zrób otwór w śnieżnej ścianie. It must be big enough, so that you can freely get backpacks out of the inside. Then drill the interior of the drift, Helping yourself, for example, a mess tin, Until the ends of the sticks appear.
Other shelters
Hear
Dig a deep ditch in the snow and cover it with a roof of interwoven branches. Put a layer of snow on a grille from the branches, which will constitute a roof cover. Remember, to set up a vertical pole before covering the entire roof; It will allow you to make a hole in the snow, which will ensure proper ventilation.
Natural snow hideout
Cozy, As if a specially prepared for a stray wanderer is a hollow in the snow under the hanging branches of coniferous trees covered with snow -covered hats. Be careful, so that you do not knock the snow out of the branches.
Snowsho
If you have to find shelter as soon as possible, Hollow the cavity in the snowstorm. Sitting in it, build the entrance with snow blocks. Remember the ventilation ventilated.
