8,000 North Dakotans try to break snow angel record

by Kaitlin | February 18, 2007 at 10:39 am

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There is one amazing photo, shot from above, of everyone lying on the ground making the angels, but there are oddly few photos out there from on the ground. Do any of you NowPublic readers out there have photos of this? Were any of you at the event? Let us know!

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) - Among thousands of people frantically flapping in the snow Saturday in an attempt to set the record for the most snow angels ever made were parents, children, even snowplow drivers.

And then there was Pauline Jaeger - who on her 99th birthday, was making her very first angel.

"It's fun," Jaeger said.

"I feel just like a kid."

More than 8,900 people flapped their arms and legs on the North Dakota Capitol grounds Saturday in an attempt to reclaim the record, which was snatched away about a year ago in Michigan.

The Guinness Book of Records still must confirm the number. The snow angel category was created in 2002 when 1,791 people made snow angels on the Capitol grounds in North Dakota.