Breckenridge held a sculpture contest for the amatuers and wanna-bes, in anticipation for the International Snow Sculpture Competition coming up in January.
The theme was “Winter Dreams”
So I came up with this sculpture of a little boy sleeping with his skis.
We had a week or more to carve up something. I went with a traditional technical snow carving starting with a big 4 X 8’ block of snow. The snow went into the form as dry powder…but after some compacting and letting the block sit out a few nights I had a nice, hard block of carvable white goodness.
My Girlfriend and I worked on it for around 16 hours over a few days.
…and then we rested.
Her’s the finished carving, still sitting out in front of Cool River Coffee Shop across from Ullr’s on Main St Breck.
I’m hooked, snow carving is so much fun (On skis or off!)
We came in fourth place, although ours was the best carved and most technical, the judges were going by some different criteria that was unknown till the judging. I am pleased as hell and can’t wait till next year. This was my first real attempt at carving anything on this scale.
Next year I will try to incorporate a unicycle somewhere…
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