Here’s how. Why Build A Snow Shelter? Do it right and your snow shelter will maintain a constant 32-degree (F) temperature inside, no matter what conditions are like outside.

Building a shelter is imperative if you're lost in the wild in frigid temperatures. When there is a lot of snow, creating a safe space is easier than you think.

When you find yourself wet or poorly dressed in the winter wilds, you need to be able to build a shelter using accessible materials and the landscape.

Learn how to build a winter shelter out of snow, space blankets, fallen branches, cave openings and more to survive a blizzard.

Our survival blogger Tim MacWelch rounds up the top 15 shelters for wilderness emergencies. Find out how to build them and when to use each design.

Learn how to build an a-frame shelter, lean-to shelter, and a group shelter in a cold-weather survival scenario. All three work well with fires.

The snow cave is one of the quickest emergency shelters that you can build in the backcountry to escape impending bad weather. It requires the fewest tools and can be built with minimal exertion.

Learn to build a snow shelter in this short video shot near Traverse City, Michigan. Winter camping is far more comfortable when you shelter in a Quinzee as opposed to a tent. We’re not talking ...

You’ll need a decent amount of snow to make this work, and this one is more of a long-term shelter since it will take most people more than 20 minutes to build.

And the first thing she learned was that what Eric, Stella and Lucy Allen actually build, is a quinzhee. A quinzhee is a snow shelter made from a large pile of loose snow that is shaped, then ...