Laramie, Wyoming Real Estate: Can You Guess What This Is?

Earlier this month, I took a different route to drop off a group of kids at gymnastics. Boy, were we surprised to see this monstrosity. It was hard to drive and not gape out the window along with the kids!

We came to the conclusion that it must have resulted from a broken water pipe since it had been so, so cold recently. Why would anyone have a water pipe going up a telephone pole? We didn't know. But it was the only thing we could think of! How else would all that water have gotten there? Turns out we were wrong about the origin of this statuesque creation.

This jagged tower of ice did not come about by accident nor was it a free form ice sculpture... they did it on purpose! "They" being a group of seminary students. They created this so they could practice ice climbing - right there in the back yard of the church! It was ingenious, and they did pick the right winter for it. Now, if we had driven by on one of the days with people actually climbing on it, I might have had to pull over and gape with the rest of the passengers in my car!