Name: So Chill: The Ice Farmer of Colorado
Uploaded: 2019-09-29T10:25:58.000Z
Duration: 2 min 23 s
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You can just see the crystals and how they

form in so many different ways and then take that

and probably make over 300 different climbs.

My name is Alexander Bianchi, and I'm an ice farmer.

We're down here in the Uncompahgre Gorge.

We have a water system at the top of the Gorge.

And it basically just sprays water out over the cliffs

and overnight when it's cold, it forms ice along the cliffs.

What we really want is a nice, clean surface

for the new water to come down and just keep

building off of that so a lot of what we do here

actually is repel down a lot of these faces and just try

to clear that snow off, ready for the next layer.

There's about two miles of ice if you walk the

I mean, the two I think are always inseparable.

Ya know, the engineering is the logistics.

How do we get water from point a to point b?

Sometimes if the valves aren't cracked quite enough,

The water just doesn't get through the valve.

The remedy is a blow torch. (flames engulfing)

I mean, on the artistic side is once we have

this water where we need it, how can we do something different?

How can we make something interesting, ya know,

It's definitely an artistic process for some of us.

I grew up rock climbing, ya know, fair weather climber.

The first time I came out here was just kind of blown away.

I mean, you're climbing a transient medium.

The rock is always gonna be there, this ice

is not always there so it creates this diversity

and, um, this intense experience that I really

And that's why I'm proud to do what I'm doing.