Ice sculpture challenge with regional arborists and artists

Friday morning, in front of Spirit Pruners on the corner of W. Broadway Ave. and N. Cochran St., owner Kelly Chadwick hosts an ice sculpture challenge with other regional arborists and artists. Drinking beer, laughing and very clearly, even to someone just arriving, these folks are having a great time. If they're not sawing away at their frozen sculpture of a guitar, a peace sign, a swan or a torch, they're huddled around a fire pit, a juxtaposition Robert Frost would be proud of.

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Thu., Jan. 14, 2021

Hazen Audel, a local woodworker uses an angle grinder to shave out details as he carves a bust of a logger out of a block of ice on Friday, Jan. 8, 2021, in Spokane, Wash. A collective of local arborists gathered in West Central to carve ice sculptures.

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Hazen Audel, left, a local woodworker carves a bust of a logger out of a block of ice while Dan Dengler, right, a local independent arborist works to separate the wings of his swan on Friday, Jan. 8, 2021, in Spokane, Wash. A collective of local arborists gathered in West Central to carve ice sculptures.

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Waken Burrows an arborist with Spirit Pruners uses a saw to carve mushrooms out of ice on Friday, Jan. 8, 2021, in Spokane, Wash.

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Dan Dengler of Arborist Spokane splits the wings of a swan ice sculpture he carved on Friday, Jan. 8, 2021, in Spokane, Wash. A collective of local arborists gathered in West Central to carve ice sculptures. "Compared to wood, the ice is so much fun to carve," Dengler said. "It's like going through butter, and you don't have to worry about the saw kicking back."

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Local arborists carve sculptures out of ice on Friday, Jan. 8, 2021, in Spokane, Wash.

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A neighbor watches as local arborists carve sculptures out of ice on Friday, Jan. 8, 2021, in Spokane, Wash.

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Local arborists carve sculptures out of ice on Friday, Jan. 8, 2021, in Spokane, Wash.

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Hazen Audel, a local woodworker uses an angle grinder to shave out details as he carves a bust of a logger out of a block of ice Friday, Jan. 8, 2021, in Spokane. A collective of local arborists and artists gathered in West Central Neighborhood to carve ice sculptures.

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Area arborists carve sculptures out of ice Friday, Jan. 8, 2021, in the West Central Neighborhood in Spokane.

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