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| 02.05.2004 - Posted By: Travis T - 10:37 pm |
| More photos of the 2004 Ice Palace in St Paul, Minnesota from Travis T. The ice palace is completed. The white dots in the photos are snow flakes.
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| 01.22.2004 - Posted By: s|inger - 10:59 pm |
I added a few more photos from the online web camera, posted below. There were high winds last night and two of the tarps ripped. The repaired the damage this morning in the 1 degree temperature. The night shot shows two of the tarps ripped, the winds were around 30 miles per hour and gusting a lot higher around that area with how open it is. I found a great site this evening. It shows 360 degree, panaramic views of the ice palace construction. These are some of the coolest photos I have seen so far. Enjoy!
360 degree panoramas of the Winter Carnival
The Ice Castle offically opened up tonight. I can't wait to go and visit it. I'll take some good photos and share with you all.
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| 01.21.2004 - Posted By: Travis T - 8:33 pm |
These are pictures of the St Paul Winter Carnival Ice Castle being constructed in downtown St Paul, MN. These pictures were taken on Sunday, January 18th, 2004. With the blue sky and sun shining, it looks like it's nice and warm. Well far from it. When we were taking pictures it had warmed up to 2 degrees fahrenheit. (For those who are not from Minnesota, that's frostbite on bare skin in about one minute.) I'm surprised our camera even worked!
Ice castle facts: First palace since 1992. First you can walk into since 1941. 240 feet at the base. Tallest turret stands nearly eight stories. Requires 27,000 ice blocks or 16 million pounds. Each block is about the size of a bathtub. Has six tons of steel holding it together and an electrical infrastructure adequate to power three Wal-Marts. Has a full size ice-skating rink inside the walls and two stages for shows.
It is scheduled to be completed for Thursday the 22nd when the carnival kicks off. We hope to go for a skate when it is open.
The workers are mostly volunteers equalling 55,000 hours of labor and are working around the clock. The blocks of ice are harvested from a local lake, Lake Phalen. We watched the workers "gluing" the blocks together by melting the surface a bit with propane torches.
I will send more pictures of the completed castle. Should be very impressive.
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| 01.22.2004 - Posted By: s|inger - 8:03 pm |
These photos are from the 2004 Ice Palace Webcam. It shows the ice palace progression starting from the January 14. I tried to take one photo per day and a few at night. These are from the Ice Castle online web camera.
Repairing the damaged tarps
Two of the tarps ripped from high winds
It's nearly completed
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