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These are photos and news article from worldrecordsacademy.org of the worlds largest snowman which was made in Bethel, Maine last March.

[March 1]BETHEL, Maine, US--The world's tallest snowman, which is actually a snowwoman, is being unveiled in the western Maine town of Bethel.Olympia Snowe-woman has wreaths as eyes, skis for eyelashes, trees for arms and 5-foot tires as buttons. She’s 122 feet and 1 inch tall – a new world record.



Olympia's creators say she has eyelashes made from skis and bright red lips crafted from painted tires. She wears a giant pink hat and gets some bling from a snowflake pendant that's more than six feet in diameter. Her arms were created from pine trees.

To get an idea of scale, Olympia is about 30 feet shorter than the Statue of Liberty (without the base). Her arms consist of 27-foot-tall evergreens. Her "carrot" nose, painted by schoolchildren, is 8 feet long. Her eyes are made from giant wreaths.



"Olympia," named for Maine's senior senator, Olympia Snowe, stands nearly 10 feet taller than "Angus, King of the Mountain," who was dedicated by the town in 1999.

That snowman, named for then-Gov. Angus King, was created by the same folks responsible for Olympia. Although the snowwoman's namesake was unable to attend Friday's dedication because of her duties in Washington, a statement was read to the crowd. "I've joked that it's just my luck I'd have a world record-breaking monument named after me — and it will be gone by summer," the senator said.

This ski town of about 2,400 residents already holds the record for tallest snowman, dedicated in 1999. Since then, they have been waiting for someone else to break the record. When no one rose to the challenge, the folks here decided they'd have to break the record themselves.

Here's a list of the specifications for the snowwoman, who's being called "Olympia SnowWoman" in honor of Maine's senior senator:
• Height: 122'1";
• Weight: 13,000,000 lbs. of snow;
• 5 foot wreaths for eyes;
• 16 skis for eyelashes;
• “Carrot” nose made of muslin, chicken wire & wood frame by the MSAD #44 elementary school children;
• 5 red auto tires for lips, painted by the Mahoosuc Kids Association;
• 48 ft. circumference fleece hat made by the Mt. Valley Middle School students;
• 130 ft. scarf;
• 6 1/2 ft. Maine-mica snowflake pendant created by Jim Mann of Mt. Mann Jewelers;
• 30 ft. spruce trees for arms;
• 3 truck-loader tires for buttons;
• 2,000 ft. of rope hair!

This ice princess will be around for a while; she isn’t expected to melt until May. (She actually had some parts of her left that didn't melt until the beginning of July

Valerie, believe it or not I kind of miss the snow. I'm loving the warm spell we're having, but our ice storm was all ice. It looks like snow in the pictures, but in reality all that white is ice on the grass, trees, and leaves. It's hard to play in ice, LOL. I haven't been sledding or made a snowman or a snow angel in over a year. I don't really like the cold, but if it's going to be cold, I want to play!

Those are some beautiful pictures Karen....

Thank you! I did enjoy walking around and taking pictures of the ice. Kind of like a tourist in Canada or Maine.

Here is a picture of the lower part of our driveway. The trees are covered in ice.



This is behind our house.

I agree, those are beautiful pictures.
I hate ice/snow, but I would rather the snow though.
Please be careful around all that ice.

Honey, your pictures so remind me of the home we left in MI 8 years ago... gravel, country road, houses few and far between, and a drive way that we described as going from hell to heaven (very long, very curvy, very steep)... Loved seeing those... just seeing, not being there.

Karen, you did an outstanding job of taking ice pictures... specially liked the one of the crabapple(?) and the one with the sun shining thru the tree... did you send them to your local paper? or TV? ours are always asking for photos ....

The warm temps have caused storms to flare up. It has started in Oklahoma and is moving into Missouri. Tornado warnings are out, with people ordered into storm shelters in Oklahoma already. The power isn't even back on every where yet and now this