David Chamberlain, Dan Schwalbe, Stan Wagon, Richard Seeley. Finally, after 10 years, we figured out how to make a chain (using a veterinarian’s bone saw) that allows a clean cut that can remove a couple thousand pounds of snow in a few minutes, leaving a clean edge.
The snow at the Breckenridge event is man-made, not natural. It is trucked from the ski hill to down and blown into 12-foot high forms.The snow is compressed by local volunteers. It becomes so dense that a snow saw used to cut blocks for igloos will not make an indentation in that. Very sharp tools are needed.After a large amount of stomping to compress the snow, the form is removed and the block are ready for action.Our new saw was incredible, allowing more a block weighing a ton or more to be removed with ease.Hard at work.My favorite sculpture by another team over all the years. It is a statue of a man on a horse. But there is no man. And there no horse. This was by a team from Barcelona. Brilliant.Our work from 2007 was featured on the poster and T-shirts.
