Winter is no fun, especially when it comes too soon or overstays its welcome. How can you make it more enjoyable? By being awesome like Chris Marchand who decided to turn snow into snowlemonade (snowade? water?) by making a beautiful and colorful ice wall fortress in his yard. Look at it. It glows.
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It’s cold out there, guys. So cold that lakes are so frozen that they look like they’re from the Moon
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The Eastern seaboard is getting some serious snow, and even though we live here in 2014—the future—we’re still reduced to shoveling. Ugh. This wasn’t how it was supposed to be.
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Thought your Christmas was awesome? Had fun with a little bit of snow? Maybe you made a snowman earlier in the week? Whatever. That’s nothing compared to this magical winter wonderland in China where they have ginormous ice sculptures of horses and women and mammoths and castles and T-Rexes. They’re incredible.
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Sorry, you can’t control the weather and make it snow tomorrow. And sorry, you can’t move your whole family to a place where it’ll snow for a day. But if you really want to see a white Christmas (and that should be every non-Grinch) you can use a magical combination of diaper lining, light beer and Epsom salt to create perfect man-made versions of snow, frost and ice. The resemblance is pretty uncanny.
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Snowmen are great. Everyone loves a good snowman! But if you’re expecting piles and piles of the white stuff this year, have a ton of free time on your hands, and want to make something truly cool, why not go all-out and construct an urban igloo?
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If skiing isn’t enough of a thrill for you, why not up the ante and zoom through a whole forest? And if that’s still not enough for you, why not make it even scarier by going at warp freaking speed? That’s what Candide Thovex and Aziz Benkrich did. The GoPro footage from their latest ski run is a thrill ride that scares you senseless.
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Snowmobiles are fun and fast, but when you just want to get down a big snow-covered hill, there’s nothing like a sled. If you’re the kind of speed freak that enjoys going 40mph downhill, then this sled might be for you.
The Snolo Stealth-X Sled might break your bank account, but that’s because it’s made almost completely of carbon fiber. The entire shell is made out of one piece and is contour-molded in the seating area to fit your bum perfectly. It even has a padded back rest to keep you comfortable while you zip along this winter. There’s a single, steerable ski at the front, and two at the back.
The Snolo will give you the maneuverability of a snowboard, and blistering fast downhill speeds – but get ready to cry, because this baby costs a whopping $2,550(USD)!
[via Uncrate]
While it is odd that a school called the University of Southern California would claim to know anything about a traditional snowy winter, this video is chock full of information. Including the connection between Christmas cards and sheep.
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All I want for Christmas is a trip to Avoriaz. I had never heard of this place before finding it on Alastair Philip Wiper‘s site; the ace photographer has been documenting the French ski resort for years, and I’ve never seen anything quite like it. The more I read about it, the more I want to go.
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