Ice Magic In Lake Louise
Wednesday, January 21st, 2009
The annual Ice Magic Festival kicks off this Friday, January 23rd for the weekend at Lake louise in Alberta, Canada.
The 34-hour competition sees professional teams carve towering works of art from 300-pound blocks of ice on the shores of Lake Louise.
This year’s interpretive challenge is to create a sculpture that tells a story around the Rhythms of Nature; an artistic theme that explores the preservation of wildlife and ecosystems in this vast pristine wilderness.
Deer, elk, cougars, moose, and grizzly bears roam freely through the protected forests of Canada’s first national park, unmarred by ski resort developments and slope-side condominiums.
The whole event should be made still more magical by heavy snow that has fallen in the area recently.
Dry, fluffy powder is blanketing Banff National Park this week as more than half a metre (nearly two feet) of fresh, light snow has piled up on the ski resort bases that already top six feet (187 cms and growing).
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