This is pretty much the town's claim to fame:
They scrape the snow off the area where they mount the tripod. This photo looks like I am standing on thin ice, but the ice is over forty inches thick! The cracks become somewhat irrelevant at that point:
The town turns the first weekend in March into a Carnival. There is a chili cookoff, a doughnut-eating contest, a hula-hoop contest, etc, etc. But my favorite is of course the sled dog races:
Raising the tripod:
Putting on the final crossbars:
And once the tripod is set in the ice, its base is drilled through to the river, flooding it so it will freeze in place:
Bust through at last!
The crew after an afternoon's work:
The tripod is viewable from the highway bridge:
BTW, I am perfectly aware that that is not a tripod, as it has four legs, but that's what they call it, so what the heck, ya know?
5 comments:
Anyone else was standing on the 40" thin ice while you were standing on it? Do you know how they could tell it was 40" thick underneath the cracked ice?
The pictures are nice to watch and I like the furry pants under your blue jean. It keeps you nice and warm, I hope.
I didn't notice the fur until I read the previous comment. Is all that white fluff from your boots? Are they big furry white leggings under your jeans...are you trying to look like Autumn? Or has it been a while since you shaved your legs, ha ha!!
Did you see the other photos of us all together with the tripod? Did you see the dog sled on the river? Did you see the cars on the river? Did you see the drill going into the ice, and the depth it went?
That is the fake fur lining on my sorels, haha!
A mother always sees her offsprings first before anyone else or anything else. The other pictures are nice to view but kind of far to see details.
Well, in this photo:
http://tinyurl.com/29h4ad
you can see the depth to which the ice was cut. People here are standing on the surface of the river. That trench is cut about a foot below. Do you see the height of the drilling part of the drill? That drill is two feet long.
Okay, keep that in mind, and then look at this photo:
http://tinyurl.com/2hy4q5
The drill is buried to a depth of over two feet, and he still hasn't hit the bottom of the ice.
I took these photos specifically so everyone could see how thick the ice is. I think it is a phenomenon that is unique to large, shallow rivers in the North. I hope you were able to enjoy them and not just imagine how you could turn it into a horror. There are enough real horrors in the world to worry about, without inventing additional ones. :)
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