The 2008 Spicer Winterfest Ice Castle is finished. Each ice block weighs in at around 800 pounds, and 1000 blocks of ice were used in the construction. For a current webcam view of the ice castle visit the official website at http://www.spicermn.com/
The fireworks and lighting ceremony is scheduled for the evening of January 19th. As the high temps for the day are forecast to be somewhere around 5 below zero (-20.5 C) I may or may not photograph it... In the meantime my gallery of a previous ice castle lit at night can be found at http://www.pbase.com/harpeggio/spicer_ice_castle