{"id":2219,"date":"2011-01-18T17:39:31","date_gmt":"2011-01-18T22:39:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jeffco.ca\/blog2\/?p=2219"},"modified":"2011-01-18T17:39:31","modified_gmt":"2011-01-18T22:39:31","slug":"winterlude-photos-2001","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jeffco.ca\/blog2\/2011\/01\/18\/winterlude-photos-2001\/","title":{"rendered":"Winterlude Photos: 2001"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Attending a press conference held by the City of Ottawa to announce activities planned for Winterlude.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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In 2001, there were no amateur sculptures on Dows Lake. The City of Ottawa instead tried some new things to bring people to Dows Lake and the canal. This year, they had a climbing wall, demonstrations of snow sculpture, various races, sledge hockey and activities like that. It was a good attempt but I didn’t really think it was the way to go, but we went anyway to support the city and the group we knew and liked. We brought the camera out to the canal for the press conference announcing the many activities and captured a few cute moments with the ice hogs and the mayor and lots of other enthusiastic supporters. <\/p>\n

You can see one of the reasons sculptures were becoming problematic on the canal. You can tell from even these early digital photos that while the canal had frozen, the temperature was erratic enough to leave a lot of water on the ice under the snow, so there were puddles of water everywhere, and walking in the unploughed snow would reveal water running under the snow. The temperature was becoming too unpredictable to ensure Dows Lake would be good to go for Winterlude.<\/p>\n

If you’d like to learn more about the Jeffco Winterlude Snow Sculptures, or see any of the many other photos or sculptor’s resources from the City of Ottawa and Winterlude of years gone by, check out the Jeffco Snow Sculpture<\/a>, Winterlude Links<\/a> and Sculptor Resource<\/a> pages.<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n