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== Why the Snort? ==

Why did we make the Snort? Why did we continue to put so much effort into it, beyond just one little ~~room~~ on ~~a snow day~~?

Why did we make the Snort? Why did we continue to put so much effort into it, beyond just one little chamber on the first few snowy days?

There is little documentation as to if some small quinzhees have been built at Vassar before, but in 2024-2025 ~~year~~ the Rugby team built an igloo out of packed snow blocks at the THs.<ref>https://www.tiktok.com/@vassar_college/video/7325450645664763166</ref> We hope that making a Nircle Snort can become a yearly tradition passed on to new Noyes residents and Outing Club members, and people can experience and enjoy snow forts in the future!

Fia, Cormac, and other Snort builders had many fond memories of building snow forts and caves as kids, and wanted to bring this tradition back to life. Fia has built a snow fort at home consistently each year since 2020, and in the winter of 2024/2025 wanted to make one at Vassar when it snowed there, but had a fever. For them, building the Snort outside Noyes at Vassar was a very different experience from building at home, because there were no time limits of needing to be at school all day and because there are so many friends and people at Vassar who want to build too! Once we start digging together, it is hard to stop, and we have spent evenings saying "just one more shovelful" from 9pm to 2 am. The ephemeral nature of snow and ice roots you in the moment, because everyone knows that each session building could be the last, and with climate change looming before us, we never know if this is the last snow fort we will make.

The Snort has been a joyful, satisfying and restorative experience. Engaging so directly with the winter has helped with seasonal depression, and we have all become more bonded through labor. The Snort also became Fia's creative center for most of the year, inspiring drawings and writings and poems, even this page, months after it melted.

There is little documentation as to if some small quinzhees have been built at Vassar before, but in the winter of 2024-2025 the Rugby team built an igloo out of packed snow blocks at the THs.<ref>https://www.tiktok.com/@vassar_college/video/7325450645664763166</ref> We hope that making a Nircle Snort can become a yearly tradition passed on to new Noyes residents and Outing Club members, and that people can experience and enjoy snow forts in the future!

== Current state ==

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 == Why the Snort? ==
-Why did we make the Snort? Why did we continue to put so much effort into it, beyond just one little room on a snow day?
+Why did we make the Snort? Why did we continue to put so much effort into it, beyond just one little chamber on the first few snowy days?
-There is little documentation as to if some small quinzhees have been built at Vassar before, but in 2024-2025 year the Rugby team built an igloo out of packed snow blocks at the THs.<ref>https://www.tiktok.com/@vassar_college/video/7325450645664763166</ref> We hope that making a Nircle Snort can become a yearly tradition passed on to new Noyes residents and Outing Club members, and people can experience and enjoy snow forts in the future!
+Fia, Cormac, and other Snort builders had many fond memories of building snow forts and caves as kids, and wanted to bring this tradition back to life. Fia has built a snow fort at home consistently each year since 2020, and in the winter of 2024/2025 wanted to make one at Vassar when it snowed there, but had a fever. For them, building the Snort outside Noyes at Vassar was a very different experience from building at home, because there were no time limits of needing to be at school all day and because there are so many friends and people at Vassar who want to build too! Once we start digging together, it is hard to stop, and we have spent evenings saying "just one more shovelful" from 9pm to 2 am. The ephemeral nature of snow and ice roots you in the moment, because everyone knows that each session building could be the last, and with climate change looming before us, we never know if this is the last snow fort we will make.
+The Snort has been a joyful, satisfying and restorative experience. Engaging so directly with the winter has helped with seasonal depression, and we have all become more bonded through labor. The Snort also became Fia's creative center for most of the year, inspiring drawings and writings and poems, even this page, months after it melted.
+There is little documentation as to if some small quinzhees have been built at Vassar before, but in the winter of 2024-2025 the Rugby team built an igloo out of packed snow blocks at the THs.<ref>https://www.tiktok.com/@vassar_college/video/7325450645664763166</ref> We hope that making a Nircle Snort can become a yearly tradition passed on to new Noyes residents and Outing Club members, and that people can experience and enjoy snow forts in the future!
 == Current state ==