54 inches
That's how much snow has fallen on DC this winter, a record. That's more than every other major city in the US save one, the other city being a post-apocalyptic Siberian hellscape (i.e. Baltimore).
It's not often that you can say you have done something completely original, but we would be surprised to find out that anyone has built a snow cave in Columbia Heights in the last, oh, six-thousand years or so.
This is what you do when you want to camp in the winter and not freeze important body parts by sleeping in a tent. Snow is a good insulator, and even in pretty cold climates the temperature at ground level rarely gets too far below freezing. Mike created a pile of snow from multiple sidewalk shovelings, hollowed it out, and there you go. The candle is for atmosphere but it also supposed to create a thin layer of ice on the roof so you don't get dripped on you in the middle of the night.
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Mike also crafted the first Columbia Heights skeleton course in the backyard, which Ellis has yet to try. We think a couple of weeks of the Vancouver Olympics and she'll be good to go. We'll certainly still be buried in snow by then.
It's not often that you can say you have done something completely original, but we would be surprised to find out that anyone has built a snow cave in Columbia Heights in the last, oh, six-thousand years or so.
This is what you do when you want to camp in the winter and not freeze important body parts by sleeping in a tent. Snow is a good insulator, and even in pretty cold climates the temperature at ground level rarely gets too far below freezing. Mike created a pile of snow from multiple sidewalk shovelings, hollowed it out, and there you go. The candle is for atmosphere but it also supposed to create a thin layer of ice on the roof so you don't get dripped on you in the middle of the night.
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Mike also crafted the first Columbia Heights skeleton course in the backyard, which Ellis has yet to try. We think a couple of weeks of the Vancouver Olympics and she'll be good to go. We'll certainly still be buried in snow by then.
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