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Simon Beck's snow art at Lake Louise, Alberta.

With just a compass and a pair of snowshoes, Simon Beck creates art

March 2, 2015Arts

Some people use snowshoes to exercise, or even just to get from point A to point B in the snow. But Simon Beck has turned them into his own kind of a paintbrush, using big, snowy fields as his canvas.

Beck snow art

This artist is taking snow angels to an extreme

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