Int'l Snow Sculpture Championships

Brooke and I went to Breck earlier this week and we got in some boarding action and saw some absolutely unreal ice sculptures. The boarding was pretty rough. It was ridiculously windy and bitter cold at times. Brooke tried to break a fall with her face and got her first ever nosebleed! Congratulations Brooke, I'm glad I could be there for that one. It wasn't a totally gushing nosebleed...just a lil one, but still.

No pics of the nosebleed, but here's one of Brooke (who normally boards with just a head band and sunglasses) trying to cover herself from the winds.
Over the weekend, Breck hosted the International Snow Sculpture Championships so the sculptures were still up when we were in town. Now you're probably thinking "wtf, how cool can that be?" Well let me tell you...it was pretty freaking incredible. Teams from all around the world carved out huge blocks of hard snow into these amazing sculptures. Unfortunately, I didn't have any real good pics that did these things justice in terms of how big they were.

This one was my fave and it was also this year's winner. A dog looking into a mirror. (The "reflection" was another carved out dog.)
Here's me checking to see if anyone's home...