The Icebox.

• Author: Peterson, Eric
• Position: [small biz] COLORADO COOL STUFF

Ed Huesers and Guy Menge built many a snow cave together before they co-founded Grand Shelters in 1998. The company's flagship product, the Icebox, is "an igloo-building tool," Huesers says.

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It features a central stake-and-pole apparatus to make for a constant radius, and a form that Huesers likens to a three-ring binder to make bricks from loose snow. It's also a considerably faster means of making an igloo. The company now sells worldwide; Scandinavia is its top market outside of the U.S...