2020 Community Snow Drawing
- Rabbit Ears Pass
The Yampa Valley community is invited to join the Bud Werner Memorial Library and the North Routt Charter School in creating a large, landscape-scale snow drawing by walking patterns with snowshoes on a snowy meadow.
Volunteers should meet at the 1A trailhead's West Summit parking lot on Rabbit Ears Pass (mile marker mile marker 146.5 on US 40) at 10:30 a.m. We'll gather to share info about the landscape that is our canvas, answer questions, and offer inspired ideas and instruction for how to delve into your own contributions to the mandala-themed snow pattern we're creating in anticipation of the Drepung Loseling monks' return to the Library during summer 2020. Community members will walk the meadow with students from the North Routt Charter School, aiming to be finished by 1:30 p.m.
Participants must bring their own snowshoes, snacks and water.
Snow Drawings in the Yampa Valley
Since 2012, the library has helped lead the community in creating enormous, landscape-scale snow drawings during the snowiest winter months. Patterns on the land are laid down by volunteer artists who each walk an individual path within a collective space. Artists leave their designs in the snow by wearing snowshoes. To date, snow drawings have been made on public lands, a frozen lake, and a working haymeadow on the Carpenter Ranch. Check out the Snow Drawing Archive to learn more about the history of these iconic community installations and see the beautiful photos and aerial videos that documented the ephemeral art.