Impossible-solutions

Lothar found a toy of his kids in his jacket. Now this is our mascot for this week..

Last flight from Vancouver to Whitehorse is ahead of us. 

   
 

  

Seems that there is not much snow in Whitehorse. Hope that it does not get too warm. Last week there was -20 degrees Celsius and this week there is around 0 ? 

   
 

The ten teams who have qualified for the challenge are:

The Kilted Snow Weasels from Illinois
Team Sweden
Team Germany Black Forest
Team Korea
Team Japan
Team Argentina
Team Alaska
Team Yukon
Team NAFTA (North America Fine Talented Artists)

Whitehorse is preparing the snow blocks for the teams. One of those is reserved for us. As you can see the blocks are casted with wood then snow will be filled in and compacted by stamping. Normally this is done using the snow from the area. But this year mother nature is not providing enough so that snow cannons have to do the job.

Since we fear humidities we need to jack up everything in the controller box. Our friend 3d-printer is building some ABS custom supports. This is the opposite way of snow carving. Here we add material while we remove material in Canada 🙂

I am one of the rare people who still do not have a Facebook account. Please also check the following link to the public Facebook page of “Snowsculpting Team Germany-Black Forest“. There you will maybe see some more pictures and videos.

Thanks goes to Andy Enderlin who made this beautiful case. It is equipped with lots of electronic and a bluetooth transmitter to connect to “Be one”. The video below shows a test mode. The Sensor will be triggered by placing your hand on it.

Only a handful of days left before we start our trip. It will be a very long flight starting in Zürich to London. From London to Vancouver and then directly to Whitehorse. Beside the long flight we are still a bit nervous if we get all our stuff through customs. Some of the tools we need to carve “Be one” out of the big block of snow look for sure scary if scanned with X-Rays 🙂