Friday, January 23, 2009

Breckenridge Snow Sculptures



The teams start the process of creating their incredible scultpures from a huge snow cube that is about 10 feet high.  They are not allowed to use powered tools.  It all has to be done by hand and takes 6 days to finish. There is strategy involved as the day time temperatures during the week can vary considerably. If they get to far into the sculpture too early and the temperature is warm, there is a great risk of it collapsing. So some years they can leave much of the sculpting almost until the last day and work all through the night to finish for judging the next day!

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