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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: ++STARTS ON PREVIOUS SHOT AND PARTIALLY OVERLAID BY SHOTS 3 TO 7++
"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. 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 we’re looking at about 25 million pounds of ice spread over two acres. 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. A huge amount of slides for kids of all ages. A magic light walk out the back that takes you through nature and again shows you different lighting installations connected with sound."
3. Mid of visitors walking through ice castle
4. Various of ice sculptures ++NIGHT SHOTS++
5. Mid of hanging icicles ++NIGHT SHOT++
6. Various of people sliding down slides inside ice tunnel ++NIGHT SHOTS++
7. Wide of visitors checking out ice castles ++NIGHT SHOT++
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Julia Jones, visitor from Gloucester, Massachusetts: ++PARTIALLY OVERLAID BY SHOT 9++
"I’ve never seen anything like this before. I think it’s really, really cool. 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."
9. Various of v isitors checking out ice castles ++NIGHT SHOTS++
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Jared Henningsen, Vice president, Events for Ice Castles: ++STARTS ON PREVIOUS SHOT AND PARTIALLY OVERLAID BY SHOT 11++
"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."
11. Mid of hanging icicles
STORYLINE:
An annual architectural celebration of ice is up and running again in New Hampshire and several other US states.
Ice Castles, which are both temporary art installations and tourist attractions, feature towers, tunnels, archways and caves, all created by growing, harvesting and arranging thousands of icicles and then blasting them with sprinklers.
The company behind the displays has expanded since its first installation in 2011.
This year it has operations in Utah, Minnesota, two locations in Colorado and New Hampshire, where the site includes a snow tubing hill and ice bar.
After a mild winter last year, officials were thrilled that temperatures were cold enough to open earlier this season.
“It’s one of the biggest ice castles we’ve ever built,” said Jared Henningsen, the company’s vice president for operations about the creation in North Woodstock, New Hampshire.
“We’re looking at about 25 million pounds of ice spread over two acres.”
As a winter storm brought biting cold and wet snow to the South, visitors to the New Hampshire castle bundled up to explore its twists and turns Friday.
Julia Jones of Gloucester, Massachusetts, said she travels to northern New Hampshire several times a year but had not experienced the ice castles until her opening-day visit.
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