Thunder Mountain Indian Monument VII
Architecture
Snow Trench
If you lack the time, energy, know-how, or inclination to construct a cave or quinzhee you can maybe get by with a trench. You simply build a "foxhole" 2 or 3 feet deep and just big enough for your sleeping bag not to touch the walls (but also as small as possible, to conserve body heat). Pile the excavated snow into an encircling wall. Then lay skis or snowshoes or tree branches across the open trench and cover them with a tarp or space blanket or whatever you have available. Secure it with snow. The result, says my informant, can be an astonishingly effective shelter, especially as protection against wind -- though it's not really viable in stormy weather.
-- Colin Fletcher and Chip Rawlins, The Complete Walker IV (New York: Knopf, 2003), 442.
Collections and Exhibits
MoCA: Museum of Chinese in the Americas. Bad Beijing architecture. Drawings by second graders of the human body. A huge collection of Photoshop tutorials. The British Library’s Database of Bookbindings. Stephen Downes’s Index of Logical Fallacies. Kevin Sherry’s Sweater Project. Jason Patient’s cycling images. Edward Tufte’s argument against PowerPoint presented as a PowerPoint presentation.