The world's tallest snowman is no man.
The "snowwoman" towering over this village features eyelashes created from discarded skis and bright red lips made from painted car tires. She wears a giant red hat and a 100-foot-long scarf, and her blond tresses are made from rope. She gets a little bling from a snowflake pendant that's 6 feet long
She's a beauty. Gotta love those eyelashes," said Robin Zinchuk, executive director of the local chamber of commerce and a chief instigator of the town's offbeat project.
With the temperature in single digits, several hundred people including busloads of schoolchildren turned out for Friday's dedication of the 122-foot-tall mountain of snow.
This ski town of about 2,400 residents already holds the record for tallest snowman, dedicated in 1999. Since then, t hey have been waiting for someone else to break the record. When no one rose to the challenge, the folks here decided they'd have to break the record themselves
Mark Bancroft, who donated the 150-foot crane used during the project, noted that it has been a tough winter with high fuel costs and nasty weather.
"What does Bethel, Maine, do when it gets tough? We build a snowman!" he said to the muffled applause of mittens and gloves clapping together.
"Olympia," named for Maine's senior senator, Olympia Snowe, stands nearly 10 feet taller than "Angus, King of the Mountain," who was dedicated by the town in 1999. That snowman, named for then-Gov. Angus King, was created by the same folks responsible for Olympia.
To get an idea of scale, Olympia is about 30 feet shorter than the Statue of Liberty (without the base) Her arms consist of 27-foot-tall evergreens.
Her "carrot" nose, painted by schoolchildren, is 8 feet long. Her eyes are made from giant wreaths.
She was built with a series of concentric circles. The crane dumped the snow into frames, and volunteers climbed in for long hours shoveling and packing the snow.
Olympia's eyelashes are made from skis and her bright red lips are painted tires.
Height: 122 feet (37.2 meters)
Weight: 13,000,000 pounds (5,896,700.81 kilograms)
It is cold out today and I'm not riding. :y114:
The "snowwoman" towering over this village features eyelashes created from discarded skis and bright red lips made from painted car tires. She wears a giant red hat and a 100-foot-long scarf, and her blond tresses are made from rope. She gets a little bling from a snowflake pendant that's 6 feet long
She's a beauty. Gotta love those eyelashes," said Robin Zinchuk, executive director of the local chamber of commerce and a chief instigator of the town's offbeat project.
With the temperature in single digits, several hundred people including busloads of schoolchildren turned out for Friday's dedication of the 122-foot-tall mountain of snow.
This ski town of about 2,400 residents already holds the record for tallest snowman, dedicated in 1999. Since then, t hey have been waiting for someone else to break the record. When no one rose to the challenge, the folks here decided they'd have to break the record themselves
Mark Bancroft, who donated the 150-foot crane used during the project, noted that it has been a tough winter with high fuel costs and nasty weather.
"What does Bethel, Maine, do when it gets tough? We build a snowman!" he said to the muffled applause of mittens and gloves clapping together.
"Olympia," named for Maine's senior senator, Olympia Snowe, stands nearly 10 feet taller than "Angus, King of the Mountain," who was dedicated by the town in 1999. That snowman, named for then-Gov. Angus King, was created by the same folks responsible for Olympia.
To get an idea of scale, Olympia is about 30 feet shorter than the Statue of Liberty (without the base) Her arms consist of 27-foot-tall evergreens.
Her "carrot" nose, painted by schoolchildren, is 8 feet long. Her eyes are made from giant wreaths.
She was built with a series of concentric circles. The crane dumped the snow into frames, and volunteers climbed in for long hours shoveling and packing the snow.
Olympia's eyelashes are made from skis and her bright red lips are painted tires.
Height: 122 feet (37.2 meters)
Weight: 13,000,000 pounds (5,896,700.81 kilograms)
It is cold out today and I'm not riding. :y114:
