Pile the snow into a big mound, pack it down, then hollow out the middle. Camping overnight is optional.

There hasn't been enough snow for that in a while. Many years ago I used some big plastic boxes to pack and mold snow bricks though, and that really workes great for build a little "iglo". Stood for over a week, was the last thing that melted in the garden. Good memories :)

You still get...snow?
That even stays?

I build quinzhees, a snow shelter that can be built at any temperature below freezing. Once the temperature gets below minus 5, snow no longer packs. Quinzhees can be built at any temperature.

What hell is "snow?"

I've never seen snow except through an airplane window

With the door wide open. The snow fort is a trap. Im not in it. Im in the snow bank under the snow waiting for you to approach it. Its over for you and you dont know it.

As kids, my brothers and I would wait for the public snowplow to clear the road and would dig tunnels in the piles they created…typical gross kids. We had to take our snow gear off at the entryway of the (military) housing unit we lived in so it didn’t matter. It was fun.

If only...

It's been a long time since I built a snow fort, but I was partial to the mason method. Of course there must be a snowball cache! Because I know my sister is lurking somewhere....

I was always a burrower when a bit of extra wall on top. Kind of dreamed of being more mason.

If you carve out a tunnel into the floor and have the entrance down a foot or two, the wind can't blow directly in, and the cold air will sink to fill the tunnel/entrance with your sleeping platform being quite warm.

By drinking liquid nitrogen.