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Published: February 20th 2011
Breckenridge
Might be the Jack London sculpture...It was 16 degrees and windy, so it seemed like a good day to drive to Breckenridge to see the annual snow sculpture exhibition. Good that we have 4-wheel drive. We got to Breckenridge around lunchtime, so we stopped at the Whale's Tail restaurant. Very appropriately named because coincidently there was a pile of snow shaped exactly like a whale with particular emphasis on that whale's tail and it was right in front of the restaurant!
After lunch we found the snow sculptures. One of my favorites was the one from Alaska illustrating Jack London stories. I think it was Jack London. Didn't he write the short story "For want of a Match" or something similar? The guy gets lost on the trail and it's cold and snowy (he was probably on his way to Breckenridge) and he tries to build a fire. He has few matches but finally he gets a small flame going with his LAST MATCH and he starts to warm up. But the heat from the fire melts some of the snow and ice in the sheltering tree above him and the snow falls from the tree and puts out the fire and the man freezes
Breckenridge
The strategically placed whale tail sculpture. to death. Jack London could be a real downer. Anyway they did a snow sculpture depicting that story. And on the other side of that sculpture there was a howling wolf - as in.........The Call of the Wild!!!! Yes, now I'm sure it was Jack London.
So we looked at ALL the ice sculptures, but it was 16 degrees and the wind was blowing, so we went home. We had lots of matches, because you never know.
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