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Must not be this year...

Is it Fran?

Olympia

Those…. those arms are trees.

I’ve been to bethel multiple times, not much else to do there.

Edit - skiis for eyelashes?

30 foot spruce trees that look tiny

Le Mu Eats is worth a visit. Amazing Laotian-American food.

Smokin good barbecue is great as well - I make the hour+ drive at least once a year

Aw yeah that’s good stuff too. Great to visit in the summer when it’s much much quieter, too.

Looks more like a giant buttplug.

snow person

A little girthy eh?

Sunday River is up there.

Didn’t it take until the summer for her to fully melt?

The freaking trees as arms. Wow!

Bethel originally had another one, a snowman named Angus. Angus was originally the tallest snow person but then someone else made a taller snowman and thus Olympia was created. I visited her multiple times, she was a sight to behold.

Control the language, control the mind

Pretty sure there was a pile of snow there into June.

Not anymore

Hmm, why wouldn’t the Guinness page have this Austrian one listed? Was it not authenticated or something?

Yeah, I'd reckon so

I dunno. He’s kinda fugly.

Maybe they disqualified it because of the ridiculous hat.

The arms are.... entire trees! The resident might hold the record but I know he/she didn't do this alone.

lolmao

“Snow person”

That hat is such a bs way to gain height, if they're counting it. I am (potentially) outraged.

A photo gallery of the “build” is at https://flic.kr/s/aHsiU7JDYn

Yeah, I think there was even snow under Olympia’s hat. Seems like cheating to build a half-assed snowman, throw a huge hat on them and call it the tallest.

We're not here to judge.

Lived there for a couple years. Can confirm, not much to do. On the plus side, there was no fast food places so I was probably a bit more healthy

Today i learned the Statue of Liberty is apparently not as tall as i thought it was.

It could be done. The same equipment used to make snow at ski resorts can be used anywhere as long as it's cold enough and there's plenty of water and electricity available. The water can just be pumped straight from a river.

This thing doesn't look like it was cheap or easy to put together no matter how simple the concept is.

EDIT: It's at the Sunday River Ski Resort, which makes a lot of sense.

I think I read that it WAS the world record til 2020 when it was surpassed by one a couple meters taller in Austria. US record, maybe, but no longer WORLD record.

This isn’t at the resort. This is in the open field between the sheriff’s office, the theater, and the hardware store. Where the jeep rallies are in the summer.

I stand corrected. Either way, the resort's logo was on the sign so I think it's safe to say their snowmaking department had a hand in this.

Well, it's all about perspective. You'd have to go there to see it yourself to make a good comparison.

"Snowperson" 🙄

Hence the patriarchy

It did not to my knowledge. This was quite a few years ago, I saw it being made every weekend headed up for snowmobiling. They were bringing dumptrucks of snow in and piling it up.

There was quite a few metal rings they had stacked, would fill one, let it harden, then, put up the next, so on and so forth until the got the height, then the got a crane for the arms, face, and buttons, and then let the public go up to it. I think it took 2-3 months if I recall.

They give the title out to tallest snow man or snow woman in the book of records. So it is the "tallest snow person" award

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Angus King of the Mountain, and Olympia Snowe-Woman!

Yes. It's the tallest of snowmen & snowwomen. So it's the tallest snowperson.

A resident meaning a single fucking person

I think they are referring to the snow person as the 'resident'.