The snow plow in my neighborhood as a kid would make big piles in the center of roundabouts and cul-de-sacs.
We'd dig labyrinths inside and build them into castles; which we'd try to invade as teams
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As a southerner, im super jealous
I never spent more effort than piling up a wall to duck behind. Sure, I had thoughts of building a complete igloo with blocks of snow, but my kid brain never stuck with it that long.
I always did the big pile then burrow through, but I’d like to try the version with the snow bricks sometime!
I live in a temperate region, so sub-zero temperatures are already kind of uncommon, even in winter. So it barely snows here - last two times were in 1975 and in 2013. (It does hail sometimes, though. Bloody hail last year killed one of my pepper plants ;_;)
That said I'd probably shape and pack individual blocks. Perhaps even glue them together with some water, if it's cold enough for that.