Michigan Tech's Winter Carnival features snow statues with this year's theme: "Frightning Creatures with Chilling Features". Here, a snow version of the campus gets attacked by several creatures, including a giant alligator.
This month-long construction features Frankenstein's laboratory.
In Jurrasic park, the dinosaurs rule. Here, they take a bite out of global warming!
Sometimes, climbing the hill means running into a Yeti.
Mythical undersea creatures are depicted in this construction.
The second place month-long statue this year stretches over 20 feet in the air!
A scene from the movie "Ghostbusters" is depicted here, captured in snow. This statue won third place.
The winning month long statue, depicting a scene from "Van Helsing" covers a lot of ground!
A closer-up view of the winning statue. Life-size!
The detail that can be achieved with snow and ice is simply amazing! Here, the wolfman is locked in his cage, as part of the winning month-long statue.
More detail from the winning monthlong statue. Many of the details were intricately constructed from ice.