15 Colby College students in Professor Herb Wilson's Winter Ecology course headed north to Flagstaff Lake in Maine for the culmination of their Jan Plan program. They all built snow huts (Quinzhees), and all but one student spent the night in the huts. Two slept comfortably -- the one in the lodge and the one whose cave was small enough to stay warm with body heat. Here's video from one hut that was too big. (And, no, there's not a secret back door.)

I filmed this from my dorm room, I noticed a bunch of people starting to make a hut.

jennifer and i built a quinzhee for fun. It took about 5 hours.

Some friends and myself decided to built a giant snow quinzhee after a major snow storm in Montreal

I sleep in my quinzhee on a cold night

My first ever youtube video! This is me practicing building a quinzhee during some back country snoeshoeing in Tahoe National Forest.

We felt that destroying our masterpiece was the perfect way of ending a weekend...

Exile #3 showing us around

Quinhzee destruction

The Start of a Three Night Sleep out in a Quinzhee I built in my front yard.

Couldn't upload the third night as it was too big :scratchhead: so here is the last morning instead. Sleeping out in my Quinzhee, raising money for The Bridge for Runaway Youth.

Exile #4 and Exile #3 coming out of the quinzhee.

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