Every year since 1914, every second week in February locals join together to celebrate winter. Created as a relief from long winters, it now signifies the middle of the season and is almost a call for all locals to shred harder and enjoy the second half of the season more before it is all over. There are the street events on main street that include everything from adults being pulled behind horses on shovels to a ski band, ski joring and everything in between. Above, you can see the pinnacle of the event, the fireworks on Howelson. To the left, ski patrol are towing sleds down the run with fireworks exploding out of them, and to the right kids are jumping the 35 and 60m jumps through the firey hoop with lighted flares. Growing up as a part of the show, it was fun to watch it from the bottom of the slopes this year.
Ellie got to ski in her first Winter Carnival torchlight parade this year. Last year she was a Little Princess on stage. And so it begins....
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