LEARN TO BUILD SNOW CAVES AT BEAVER LAKE NATURE CENTER.(Weekend)(Column)

From: The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY) | Date: January 30, 2004 | Copyright information

Byline: Laura Ryan Staff writer

Suffering through a little cabin fever these days? An outdoor activity planned for 10 a.m. Saturday at Beaver Lake Nature Center might help.

Then again, it might not.

The Beaver Lake folks out near Baldwinsville will be building a snow cave.

Snow is actually a good insulator. No, really.

It might be hard to believe on the umpteenth day of shoveling, snow-throwing and windshield scraping. But, ...

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