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2010 Quebec – Our Captain’s Thoughts on Quebec
My final thought on our snow sculpture Exhilaration, carved at the 2010 Quebec Winter Carnival is one of overall perseverance and disappointment. I’m disappointed in the piece as we were not able to fully realize my artistic vision. I am grateful to my team’s overall perseverance for working through the night in the clumpy ice […]
2010 Quebec – Survival, Caribou and Warmth – A Look Back
It was 36 hours of snow carving (OK, it was more like carving cement) crammed into a 48 hour period. It ended at 9:00am on a bright, sunny COLD (-33C with the wind) Sunday morning. We were done except we weren’t. Confused? Well, once the carving was over, the teams still had to walk back […]
2010 Quebec Day After – Method to the Madness
Today’s sculpture report is brought to you by the fine folks at (insert favorite pain reliever here). It is now a full 24 hours after we finished working and the muscles are stiff and the joints are sore. The wrists and hands will take a few more days to recover fully, but we were able […]
2010 Quebec Day 3 – We’re Done with the Ice Block
Contrary to all our hopes, the centre of the block was not soft. We had had visions of working with softer snow as we worked towards the middle. There were pockets of ice inside the pockets of ice. We finished at 9:00am and came back to the hotel without talking to the judges. I just […]
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