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[Igloo Ed]

Not much snow has fallen since last weekend and the trail heading towards Nymph Lake had a few long sections of glare ice. The snow along the edges was soft in places or at least not glare ice and I did fine without any traction devices for my feet.
I turned off on the route I was up last weekend but today I was heading for Haiyaha to check out the ice in spite of the high winds forecasted. The part of the route we traveled last weekend was hard enough that I booted it most of the way to the lake:


With the early snow this season and the ground still being warm, water is seeping out of the cracks of rocks:


Snow on the tops of rocks melted and formed icicles that have now been shaped by the wind:


I was quite enthused with the amount of ice I was seeing so I went over to check out the leak stream coming from Haiyaha and found a babbling little falls partially covered in ice:


A small shelf of ice suspended above a small section of the babbling falls with currents crossing over the falls:


I followed the Park trail for a while but then headed into the woods to check out the conditions on my regular winter route. I had booted it until I headed into the woods where the snow was deeper and unpacked.

[Igloo Ed]

I followed the Park trail out to the lake and got my favorite view of "Her Majesty" standing out prominently with blowing snow behind her:


I went out on the lake and found a bit of interesting ice but the big ice won't come until the lake drops another four feet or so:


Some ice fell back into the lake and got recast into solid ice again:


Do I see John bowing as he reaches Chiefshead's false summit:

[Igloo Ed]

I was having such good luck finding ice that I figured I'd go check out Beard Falls again and put a little time into taking a few shots:






Yep, a good ice day time to head out:

[Aaron]

What's glare ice, Ed?

Thanks for the pics and the report

--Aaron

[Igloo Ed]

Aaron, on 12 November 2011 - 07:04 PM, said:

What's glare ice, Ed?

Thanks for the pics and the report

--Aaron

You're quite welcome, my time of year. Don'cha know.
Wiki is your friend.

[Aaron]

Ok. I've never heard black ice referred to as glare ice before but it makes perfect sense.

--Aaron

[John]

Glare Ice is what Paul Slaughter gets when he makes Kristin mad.

[DeeCeeM]

Those pictures are so cool, Ed! Thanks for sharing.

[SandyM]

I love the ice shots, Ed. Great job!

[Larry]

Gee, your report brings a whole new meaning to the term ice. Down here it is just what we put into "ice" tea!!
Looks like a grand day to be in Rocky. The formations are really neat.

Larry

[B-Jay]

Very cool shots of ice designs and sculptures, Ed!

B-Jay

[Becky J.]

Great pics. Just don't often see such great ice before it is covered with snow.

Becky J.

[Igloo Ed]

Becky J., on 13 November 2011 - 01:26 PM, said:

Great pics. Just don't often see such great ice before it is covered with snow.

Becky J.

Thanks Becky. Indeed on the covered with snow.... I got to thinking last night and I neglected to try using a flash yesterday so I went up to take some more pictures today. Heh, it was a raging blizzard and I knew it wasn't going to happen but it's a fun route that I just couldn't resist with the fresh snow we got since yesterday.
This is what the falls looked like today:


Snowing to hard to use a flash but...

[NWA395]

What a neat day... thanks for sharing the pictures. Winter has not arrived in AR. It was 74 degrees today

[Scrapinator]

What a great day. Love the ice pics.