{"id":802317,"date":"2019-12-14T13:54:26","date_gmt":"2019-12-14T20:54:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=375755"},"modified":"2019-12-14T13:54:26","modified_gmt":"2019-12-14T20:54:26","slug":"breckenridge-international-snow-sculpture-championships-downsizing-to-just-one-sculpture-in-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/breckenridge-international-snow-sculpture-championships-downsizing-to-just-one-sculpture-in-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Breckenridge International Snow Sculpture Championships downsizing to just one sculpture in 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Team Mexico\u2019s \u201cCenote Gaurdian,\u201d the winner of 29th annual Snow Sculpture Championships.<\/strong>
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BRECKENRIDGE \u2014 At the Breckenridge town council work session on Tuesday, Dec. 10, assistant town manager Shannon Hayes reported to council the Breckenridge Events Committee\u2019s proposal to downsize the 2021 International Snow Sculpture Championships due to closure of the South Gondola lot. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe [2021] International Snow Sculpture is proposed to consist of one sculpture, \u2018World Peace\u2019, to be created by a number of participants from previous winning teams. With the planned closure of the South Gondola lot and the subsequent loss of parking spaces the BTO (Breckenridge Tourism Office) and BEC (Breckenridge Events Committee) believe attempting to host a full Snow Sculpture event would create immense traffic and parking challenges,\u201d Hayes said in her memo to council.<\/p>\n

Hayes added that the traffic and parking issues would likely produce negative community sentiment and expected decreasing the scope of the event would help mitigate these issues. The South Gondola lot will be closed due to construction of the new parking garage<\/a> from May 2020 to Nov. 2021, and the snow sculpture event typically takes place at the end of January. <\/p>\n

Rob Neyland, event founder, said that the plan for the location of the piece will also aid in parking issues, as it is planned to be located on the north side of the Welcome Center of the Blue River Plaza, rather than in the Tiger Dredge parking lot.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe snow sculpture historically takes up the entirety of the Riverwalk parking center. I think everyone kind of agreed that what we are going to be doing is not going dark with the event but stepping it down to a lower profile presence,\u201d Neyland said.<\/p>\n

Neyland added that the location will also keep the sculpture shaded, allowing it to remain on display for much longer. Neyland said the working term for the piece will be \u201cWorld Piece,\u201d as it will incorporate pieces from international sculpting teams. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe notion of this \u2018World Piece\u2019 is we are going to do a collaborative sculpture. We\u2019re going to hand pick the teams to come back to work on a collaborative sculpture,\u201d Neyland said. \u201cIt would allow us to celebrate a different element of the world collaboration of the event that happens in Breckenridge. It allows us to keep ourselves alive and active in the snow sculpture world.\u201d<\/p>\n

The 2022 event is expected to return to the normal competition format, though Neyland said that the idea of a collaborative piece may become a regular tradition as part of the event in the future. He said there will also be other programming done to commemorate the event and continue the messaging of the piece.<\/p>\n

Council agreed with the event committee\u2019s proposal. Council member Dick Carleton commented that he thought the theme of \u201cWorld Peace\u201d was very fitting. Council members then discussed the larger issue of events that fall during the closure of the parking lot. <\/p>\n

\u201cIn consideration of the parking structure being built\u2026what\u2019s the philosophy going forward?\u201d council member Erin Gigliello said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think we should follow what we\u2019re doing with snow sculpture,\u201d Mayor Eric Mamula said. \u201cWe\u2019re going to need to have a very robust transportation plan for not only the winter but Oktoberfest\u2026any big event.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mamula added that there would need to be clear signs directing people to available parking and that there would need to be a push for utilizing the bus system while the parking structure is being built. <\/p>\n

The 2020 snow sculpture event will occur as planned with a competition between sculpture builders. The event will take place from Jan. 20 to 29. Now that town council has given the green light for paring down the event in 2021, more detailed planning will continue.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe good news is that the town remains committed to continuing the town\u2019s iconic event,\u201d Neyland said.<\/p>\n

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Team Mexico\u2019s \u201cCenote Gaurdian,\u201d the winner of 29th annual Snow Sculpture Championships.Hugh Carey \/ hcarey@summitdaily.com BRECKENRIDGE \u2014 At the Breckenridge town council work session on Tuesday, Dec. 10, assistant town manager Shannon Hayes reported to council the Breckenridge Events Committee\u2019s proposal to downsize the 2021 International Snow Sculpture Championships due to closure of the South […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-802317","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-30 11:41:36","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=802317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=802317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=802317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=802317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}