Cripple Creek, Ice Sculpture Festival, 2020

Cripple Creek is a great place if you want to escape from a busy city life. It's also an amazing spot to spend a few relaxing hours enjoying the atmosphere of the old mine town. It is sleepy and empty during most of the year, but twice a year this town becomes center of life. It's full of people and feels busy and even a bit crazy. And it always happens in February, when the town hosts the Ice Sculpture Festival. The second time it attracts a lot of people happens during Donkey Derby in June...

 

The Ice Sculpture Festival attracts teams from all around the country and brings a lot of life and joy to every visitor. Every year the teams are working on the different subjects and it makes the festivals interesting and challenging... But every year visitors are flooding the main street and having tons of fun.

The theme for 2020 was... "Carver's Choice"... so, technically, that wasn't any theme ;)

 

But... It just means the team is supposed to find something interesting, intriguing and, maybe even magical. And they nailed it!

 

Amazing carvings from incest's life neighbored with stories from someone's dreams about the fairy tale... 

Unicorn... Wow!

And... if you'd like to play some poker... you can do it in a casino (there are enough of them in Cripple Creek, by the way) or take this table on the street!

Sometimes the video can bring better experience than pictures... so - here is this video ;)

To read more about Cripple Creek - Winter day in Cripple Creek

Pictures were taken on February 16, 2020.