February 3 - Ice Worm Day

Ice worms are unique creatures, one of the few animals to complete their life cycle solely on glacial ice. Most are found on the glaciers of the Pacific coast and coastal mountain ice from Washington's Mount Rainier through British Columbia to the Alaskan and Yukon coasts.

The legendary Ice Worm is also celebrated through many winter festivals in northern communities where winter is a cause for celebration. With no resident groundhog to view, Cordova, Alaska, on Prince William Sound, celebrates with Cordova Ice Worm Day, and the first February weekend as the Cordova Ice Worm Festival which begins with a parade lead by a 100-foot worm.

If you travel through the Alaska and Yukon regions today, you can still find establishments that will serve you an ice-worm cocktail so that you can "proclaim you're of the best, A doughty Sourdough who has passed the Ice-worm Cocktail Test."