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North Woodstock, New Hampshire – 10 January 2025
1. Pan right of visitors looking at Ice Castles ++NIGHT SHOT++
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Jared Henningsen, Vice president, Events for Ice Castles:
"We’re at one of our largest Ice Castles this year in North Woodstock, New Hampshire and we’re thrilled to be back for a fantastic season."
3. Mid of visitors looking at Ice Castles
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Jared Henningsen, Vice president, Events for Ice Castles:
"Last season was pretty mild here in New Hampshire and so we’re thrilled to be able to come back. We’re opening much earlier than we did last year and there’s a lot more volume of ice here, too. As I said, it’s one of the biggest ice castles we’ve ever built, so."
5. Mid of visitors walking through ice castle
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Jared Henningsen, Vice president, Events for Ice Castles:
"So we’re looking at about 25 million pounds of ice spread over two acres. And we start the process by mapping out in the ground how we’d like to build the ice castle this year and the experience that we want to provide our guests. And then we’ll start growing icicles in our icicle farms. When they get to the correct length that we need for wherever we are in the build process, we will harvest them, put them in a little backpack, and then plant those icicles in the structure."
7. Mid of visitors walking through ice castles
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Jared Henningsen, Vice president, Events for Ice Castles:
"It’s a very romantic place. Once you enter into an ice castle, you transition into something that’s totally immersive and unlike something that most guests have ever seen. Ice castles are rare in North America. There’s only five of them. And so I think it inspires people."
9. Mid of visitors taking photos
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Jared Henningsen, Vice president, Events for Ice Castles:
"We have world-class ice sculptures that are embedded in different parts of the castle. There is a lot of hanging ice in caverns and so ice elements you may not see in the wild that you can see here."
11. Tilt down from hanging ice to visitors
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Jared Henningsen, Vice president, Events for Ice Castles:
"A huge amount of slides for kids of all ages."
13. Various of people sliding down slides inside ice tunnel ++NIGHT SHOT++
14.SOUNDBITE (English) Jared Henningsen, Vice president, Events for Ice Castles:
"A magic light walk out the back that takes you through nature and again shows you different lighting installations connected with sound."
15. Wide of visitors checking out ice castles ++NIGHT SHOT++
16. Various of ice sculptures ++NIGHT SHOT++
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Julia Jones, visitor from Gloucester, Massachusetts:
"We came here because… we tried to come here yesterday but today is the opening day and everything like that so we got tickets for today and we are actually really excited. And I’ve never seen anything like this before. I think it’s really, really cool."
18. Mid of visitors checking out ice castles
19. SOUNDBITE (English) Julia Jones, visitor from Gloucester, Massachusetts:
"Honestly, I didn’t think it was going to be this big. We started walking around and I’m like, oh a tunnel, oh a tunnel, oh a tunnel. I’m like, we have to go through all of them."
20. Wide of visitors checking out ice castles
21. Various of hanging icicles
STORYLINE:
An annual architectural celebration of ice is up and running again in New Hampshire and several other US states.
The company behind the displays has expanded since its first installation in 2011.
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