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Post by High Sierra Fan on Dec 3, 2023 20:48:24 GMT -8
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Post by High Sierra Fan on Dec 3, 2023 20:52:09 GMT -8
The skater used to own Mt. Williamson Motel & Basecamp. John Dittli has published photography books.  |
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Post by balzaccom on Dec 3, 2023 21:13:14 GMT -8
I can remember this from a few years ago, when Tioga Pass stayed open until January. There was no snow, and people were ice skating on Tenaya Lake.
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Post by bluefish on Dec 4, 2023 3:50:48 GMT -8
The best of this type of video I've seen was from Crowley Lake and a speed skater. I didn't have skates, but skied Crowley with clear ice. The glides were spectacular once I got the wax and pole application right. A bit of klister herringboned over purple if I remember. I fell through the edge of Silver Lake in the June Lake loop. Getting out of thin ice while still attached to three pin bindings was nerve wracking. To me, clear ice is one of nature's wonders.
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Post by Sleeping Bag Man! on Dec 4, 2023 5:53:31 GMT -8
Come on.......somebody say it, so I don't have to.......(( strains ))
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Post by walkswithblackflies on Dec 4, 2023 6:37:24 GMT -8
I fell through the edge of Silver Lake in the June Lake loop. I summitted Whiteface and skied across Lake Placid to the village. It was a beautiful sunny day. As I approached the village, I realized the ice had melted 10 feet from the shore... all along the shore. D'oh! |
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Post by balzaccom on Dec 4, 2023 6:40:01 GMT -8
Come on.......somebody say it, so I don't have to.......(( strains )) To what does this thinly veiled hint refer?  |
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Post by bluefish on Dec 4, 2023 6:53:42 GMT -8
Come on.......somebody say it, so I don't have to.......(( strains )) Describes my entire existence. |
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Post by balzaccom on Dec 4, 2023 7:57:24 GMT -8
More on Tenaya Lake... This lake is one of the most highly visible beauty spots along Highway 120 in Yosemite National Park...and a new video offers lovely images, nice music, and some real insight into climate change over the past 2,000 years Check it out: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUIKeoefUpw |
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Post by marmotstew on Dec 4, 2023 9:10:06 GMT -8
Come on.......somebody say it, so I don't have to.......(( strains )) It’s gonna be May? |
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Post by absarokanaut on Dec 4, 2023 9:25:01 GMT -8
They've done this in Colorado for some time when conditions allow. Someone posted some shots from Chasm Lake in the group Hiking Colorado not long ago. If I weren't old and hadn't gone more than 30 years without skating I might have tried it on Lake of the Crags here before the snow really started falling thanksgiving Day.
Thanks for sharing HSF, beautiful!
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Post by High Sierra Fan on Dec 4, 2023 14:56:19 GMT -8
The clearness of the ice is amazing, I look at the photo and just go, wow. I don't remember the Long Island ponds I skated on as a kid ever looking that way.
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Post by rebeccad on Dec 5, 2023 18:28:34 GMT -8
The clearness of the ice is amazing, I look at the photo and just go, wow. I don't remember the Long Island ponds I skated on as a kid ever looking that way. I suspect it may have to do with a lack of stuff decaying in the high lakes. Methane bubbling out of the bottom of the pond creates those white air bubbles, or so I gathered from something I read. |
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Post by bluefish on Dec 6, 2023 4:15:48 GMT -8
I've been ice fishing for 60 years. I've had clear ice in New Jersey, New York, Vermont and California many of those years. It's like standing on a horizontal aquarium. It has to do with freezing slowly and containing less reflective ice crystals. Snow and wind agitation screws it up, too. Turbidity doesn't help. Still, some of the clearest ice has been on shallow ponds with mud bottoms.
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Post by ErnieW on Dec 6, 2023 5:05:07 GMT -8
I think definitely it needs to be just the right temps and stillness. A friend has a cabin on Lake Dunmore in VT. One year the lake froze 8+ inches clear. I didn't want to walk on it because it looked unsafe but after chopping a couple of holes and seeing how thick I did. I think to be clear it has to freeze in a more orderly crystal. At least in this case I think it did. As ice cracked with thermal change the whole lake surface "sang" with pinging. You could hear how the cracks were racing through the ice around the lake.
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