NORTHPORT — With all the pounding Midcoast has gotten from ice and snow this past week, Point Lookout Resort in Northport has been dreaming up the most fun ways to use it. On Friday, Feb. 6, it is hosting its first Fire & Ice event to tie in with the U.S. National Toboggan Championships. Director of Catering Gerry Hill said, “This is sort of a ‘Get out and embrace the winter because you can’t do anything about it’ event. What we’re planning is to have a ‘Cook your own’ bar with skewered seasoned meats with grills outside where people can make their own food. We’re also going to have a cash bar with specialty drinks.”

Hill said that unlike the Samoset Resort’s elaborately-built ice bar, their event will be more focused around ice activities and games once the sun goes down.

“For example, we’ll be doing ice bowling where the pins and the bowling ball will be made of ice,” he said. “We’ve put these little L.E.D. lights in the ball so you can see it.”[As Point Lookout’s Bowling Center features eight lanes of 10-pin bowling, this is apropos.] “We’re also going to offer a corn hole toss game with little ice bags.”

In addition to the outside games, Hill is excited to unveil, what he calls the pièce de résistance.

“We’re going to have an ice bomb launcher. We took little water balloons and froze them. Then we put these L.E.D. lights in them and we’ll catapult them across the field 50 yards into galvanized tubs. And if one of the ice bombs hits the tub, you’ll get a prize.”

Check out our short clips on ice bowling and the ice catapult. The event goes from 5-9 p.m. and is free to the public.

Kay Stephens can be reached at news@penbaypilot.com