The Snow King Winter festival in #Yellowknife #NWT starts tomorrow! We've been working hard building the snow castle in temperatures as low as -44°C. When the walls are built, the carvers come in and carve beautiful, delicate reliefs over every surface. This year we'll have three ice slides, a big courtyard, the great hall for concerts and shows, and lots of little tunnels for kids to crawl around in. More pictures to come!
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It's not every day that a photo caption/alt text is talking about a snow blower pouring a wall section. But in context it makes perfect sense, and now I'm wondering what handling (Yellowknife) snow as a building material is like.
(Probably not exactly like either styrofoam or concrete, two things that are blown or poured into place, but I can't help wondering how much like or unlike more normal stuff it is.)
