If you haven’t made your way down to Yellowknife Bay to see the stunning snow sculptures yet, we’ve got you covered.
The ninth annual Snowkings’ Winter Festival International Snow Carving Symposium wrapped up earlier this month.
Outside the impressive Snowcastle, there are 10 snow sculptures for visitors to marvel at throughout the month of March.
Over four days, 29 carvers in teams of 10 worked with giant blocks of snow from Yellowknife Bay. Representatives of the NWT, Yukon, other parts of Canada, Ukraine, the Netherlands, Estonia, France and Spain were involved.
Keeping with the winter festival’s 30th-anniversary theme of “medieval lore,” the snow sculptures featured plague doctors, a gargoyle and even a woolly mammoth.
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The winner of the artists’ choice award was the Phoenix, carved by Team Spirit’s Patricia Leguen of Saskatoon and John Sabourin of Yellowknife.
You can check out our video of the opening day of the Snowkings’ Winter Festival here.
