Winterfest 2009 Lake Chelan

Lake Chelan, Washington, holds an annual festival of fire and ice. Ice sculptors from all around come and decorate the town with their creations, and also in tradition, the towns people compile all of their Christmas trees in a huge bonfire. It was a crazy weekend filled with snowmobile drag races, polar bear dips, late night card games, and 20 degree weather. Justin and I picked out our ice designs a couple weeks in advance, though it took a little while for me to finally decide on something, I chose Pooh Bear.

For one, he's a cartoon, something a little easier to sculpt (well in theory) because of the smooth round lines, nothing too detailed. The second reason, well bears and I have a mutual respect for each other... they try to eat me, which I respect, and I keep living, which they respect. And last I believe I use to sleep in a Pooh Bear onezee. My second design was a "Goodnight Moon". One of Justin's sculptures was a solstice sun, I figured ours would go great together, like the team we are.

We all Started our day off helping Steve set up for his sculpture. Ten 300lb blocks of ice, carfully pieced together to make a large chair, large enough to make an adult feel like a child. People were welcomed to sit and take pictures in it. Everytime we say it after it was finished, there was a line at least ten people long. By the end of the weekend, so many people had sat in it that it had actually melted the seat about 3inchs. You can see the butt marks in the picture.