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| First, there is the matter of the snow. Thirty four dump trucks full of mountain pass snow from the Cascade mountains (that’s 81 TONS). To begin with, each team had a pile of snow, in our case, the Rainier pile! |
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| And we had a dream, to build a snow castle. OK, so it didn’t quite look like this when we were done, but we liked the visionary zeal of our leader, Jim Nuerenberg! |
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| The entire event was a fundraiser for one of our favorite charities, Boys and Girls Club of King County. |
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| Mike climbed the turret and let a few snowballs fly, only to be pummeled with ammunition from the waiting crowd – including one iceball that clocked him square in the nose! |
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| Mike (proudly wounded) and I with our friends, Jim and Nancy Nuerenberg. We were pretty cold at this point, having been in the snow for about six hours… but it kept the swelling down. |
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