Ice! Cripple Creek Ice Festival Continues!

Presidents Day Febuary 15, 2010;

Cripple Creek Ice continues to Fly and Chain Saws Roar up and down the Streets of Bennett Avenue in Cripple Creek as the Ice Carvers continue to coax hunks of frozen water into fanciful works of art!

Wandering through the maze of ice on Friday, this is what the very preliminary sculptures look like prior to yeilding their inner secrets known only to the carver!

You can see the form evolving in the distance......

Here are some Ice Carving Tools!

Saturday, the carvings are taking shape!

But its still hard to tell what they are going to be!

Obvously a Fish Tail!

The Theme for this years Carvers:

Under the Sea!

My Favorite; the kid slide! This little guy was having a ball!

and Mike in his Cowboy Gear Saturday evening as the evening started to set.....

Ice goes on through the next weekend, Febuary 20 & 21st. All week the Carvers will be refining their masterpieces and bringing the undersea world to life right here on Bennett Avenue in Cripple Creek!

You can also go to www.goldcountryco.com and on the bottom of my homepage click on the "Webcam" and see down Bennett Avenue LIVE at your leisure....

If you do come up, stop by my office at 333 E Bennett (next to the Candy Store) and Say "Hey"; I'll be in there working today, Monday, Presidents Day!