How To: Make the Perfect Snowball

Admit it: if you live in a snow-receiving climate, you make at least one snowball a season. Sometimes the closest tree is your target, sometimes its your significant other (which, if you can get away with it, means that individual is a total keeper), and sometimes its just to see how far you can throw it. But if you have gloves, and there’s snow, you’re gonna make one

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created at: 12/02/2010

But then there are those icy orbs that never seem to form…they fall apart in your hands, or stay in a weird rectangle the whole time, or disintegrate not two feet in front of you. “It’s the snow, it’s the snow!” you shout. Which, sometimes it is, but that doesn’t mean its not something a little technique can’t fix.

The Art of Manliness offers a whole buncha ideas from dealing with different snow types to the best gear and storage ideas.

How to Make the Perfect Snowball