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The Construction of the Cabot House Igloo
- James E. Hawrot '12 demonstrates how to properly pack snow into a milk crate to make igloo bricks, one of the many things he learned while watching a Canadian instructional film about building igloos. By Daniel M. Lynch
- James E. Hawrot '12 and Daniel K. Bruder '12 were in charge of adding each brick as the igloo starts to form around them. By Daniel M. Lynch
- Jia Wu '11 and Karen K.Y. Kim '13 help strengthen the structure of the igloo by hard-packing snow into the spaces between the bricks. By Daniel M. Lynch
- Theodora M. Skeadas '12 laughs while she packs snow into a milk crate to form the individual bricks that make up the igloo. By Daniel M. Lynch
- Alex T. Hristov '11 pushes the bricks of ice through the door once the walls were too high to pass them overhead. By Daniel M. Lynch
- The walls of the igloo in front of Cabot House stood nearly six feet tall before it is even completed. By Daniel M. Lynch
- James E. Hawrot '12, Daniel K. Bruder '12, Romeo P. Alexander '11, Karen K.Y. Kim '13, and Alex T. Hristov '11 discuss how to start pitching the walls of the igloo inward. By Daniel M. Lynch
- Alex T. Hristov '11, Theodora M. Skeadas '12, and James E. Hawrot '12 make an angle cut on some of the last icy bricks of the igloo. By Daniel M. Lynch
Over the weekend Cabot students worked together to design and build an igloo in the Quad Yard. Inspired by the relentless snowfall and informed by an instructional video he found online, James E. Hawrot '11 rounded up a group of Cabotians to help create this new temporary installation in the yard. The igloo was completed in twelve hours over the course of two days.
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