Toasting New Year's Eve At Inuvik's Ice Bar | Up Here Publishing
It started as a way to pass the time during the holidays. Four years ago, Matthew Lavoie, Lance Gray and a group of their friends started building an ice bar at Inuvik’s Airport Lake to ring in the New Year. Every year the scope of the project grew bigger. People kept offering ideas, and expanding on the bar’s design. The event drew more and more attention. Someone asked if they were going to start competing with Yellowknife’s famous snowcastle. That’s when it got weird. “No,” says Lavoie. “All hail the snowking.” “We’re in his kingdom,” adds Gray.
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