At Home in Breckenridge

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February, 2010 in Ten Mile Vista.


The mornings are cold, but beautiful as the sun hits the Ten Mile Range. Maybe we should call the neighborhood Buena Ten Mile Vista.

Winter is a perfect time to live in the northern Breckenridge neighborhoods like Ten Mile Vista.

Whether you're driving kids to high school, the middle school or just wanting to get to I-70 and Denver or the airport, you don't need to drive through Breckenridge. Especially when ski traffic is heavy, this can save 20 minutes time.

The roads in my neighborhood aren't steep, compared to most in the county, and are wide and well maintained. It's one of the first developed subdivisions so it feels a little more open and neighborly.

And right across Tiger Road is the Breckenridge Golf Course which becomes Gold Run Nordic Center in the winter. This year the center added 10 new kilometers of groomed trail, including on where dogs are welcomed.

Plenty of people showed up this weekend to see the results of the hours of work artists put into snow sculpting in Breckenridge this week.

The weather was beautiful, melting the sculptures a little and softening the detail quickly but pleasant conditions for viewing.

The winning team made this gloved hand gesturing and was from Lithuania. The second place was the Canadian team from Ontario and its Asian woman. The third place when to the Aztec looking gateway made by one of the Mexican teams.

From the last post you can see how the forms help volunteers create the giant blocks of snow the Town of Breckenridge makes for the annual snow sculpture competition. 

From these 10x10x12 foot tall blocks have the look of marble, but carve like a hard block of ice cream. The temperatures in Breckenridge are so cold at night in January that the quality of our snow is some of the best in the world for snow sculpture. It's hard and consistent because it's man-made with the help of Breckenridge Ski Resort.

When the weather is sunny, the sculptures need to be protected from sun and melting during the work week, which accounts for the spinikers and other flying colors.

Artists come with their own tools which include floor scrapers, big razor blades, chains, spades, chisels, and cheese graters.

Often, they are working from a three dimentional model that they are trying to create on a big scale.

The final details are added on the last night, Friday, when everyone usually works late into the dark. The competition ends at noon on Saturday, and the awards are announced later in the day.

Snow lasts longer at high altitude. So, while new snowfalls have been coming down in inches not feet this winter, the conditions are very good on Peak 8 as you can see from these photos.

January is a great month to ski because the mountain is less crowded than it was during the holidays and often the weather is glorious. As you can also see from these photos. The sun shines, and there's not a cloud in the sky. Mornings and night can be very cold, but by mid day the temperature is easy to be out in.