Ice Skate the Range of Light
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Wow, those are amazing photos! It's wonderful to see places that I've hiked through in another light. Too cold for me but more power to you - keep on skating!
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Great photos. Except for Ostrander which I skate every year even if its not great, just to do it, we had seamless water ice on Gull Lake (road accessible) on Christmas Day, late 90's. It was seamless because there was still open water, so as the lake froze it had an open area to expand into without cracking and buckling. Ostrander frequently freezes up in sections, so if snow falls on part, another area of open water will freeze--this may keep going for a month, or you may get no good days at all. The ice almost always cracks--lakes are weakest at the edges where there is heat transfer, even from logs, but its spookiest out in the middle, alone, when you get a lightning crack under your skates and right up your spine. Still, I've never seen anything but cracks--never a large piece that upends. We test by roping someone up and they whack on the ice with the back of a skate, or walking with boots, which distribute the weight more evenly than skates. No one has ever gone in, or even close, except in spring as the edge of the lake melts out. Have fun--there's nothing like a 25 foot glide on skates.
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Great photos. Except for Ostrander which I skate every year even if its not great, just to do it, we had seamless water ice on Gull Lake (road accessible) on Christmas Day, late 90's. It was seamless because there was still open water, so as the lake froze it had an open area to expand into without cracking and buckling. Ostrander frequently freezes up in sections, so if snow falls on part, another area of open water will freeze--this may keep going for a month, or you may get no good days at all. The ice almost always cracks--lakes are weakest at the edges where there is heat transfer, even from logs, but its spookiest out in the middle, alone, when you get a lightning crack under your skates and right up your spine. Still, I've never seen anything but cracks--never a large piece that upends. We test by roping someone up and they whack on the ice with the back of a skate, or walking with boots, which distribute the weight more evenly than skates. No one has ever gone in, or even close, except in spring as the edge of the lake melts out. Have fun--there's nothing like a 25 foot glide on skates.
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Oh man these are so awesome....
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Hey Howard
I know what your saying. Here's seamless 3 inch ice on Ruby Lake this morning. Hope all is well at the hut. http://www.facebook.com/pages/John-Ditt ... 925?ref=mf
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I know what your saying. Here's seamless 3 inch ice on Ruby Lake this morning. Hope all is well at the hut. http://www.facebook.com/pages/John-Ditt ... 925?ref=mf
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'tiss the season once again!
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That is so cool!! what lakes are those and how did you get into them?
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Thanks John for posting those wonderful shots!
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I don't give out specific route information, my belief is that it takes away from the whole adventure spirit of a trip, if you need every inch planned out, you'll have to get that from someone else.
Have a safer backcountry experience by using the HST ReConn Form 2.0, named after Larry Conn, a HST member: http://reconn.org
I don't give out specific route information, my belief is that it takes away from the whole adventure spirit of a trip, if you need every inch planned out, you'll have to get that from someone else.
Have a safer backcountry experience by using the HST ReConn Form 2.0, named after Larry Conn, a HST member: http://reconn.org
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Very nice pics as always John. Thank you so much for sharing them. I have to admit I look forward to these shots each new year!!!!
Once in a while you can get shown the light
In the strangest places if you look at it right.
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Thanks, it is pretty fun.
Ruby and Fourth Recess via Mono Pass (fairly serious post holing)
Duck Lake via Duck Pass on skis a couple of days ago.
Here's a pretty fun video from Topsy Turvy earlier this fall.
Tamarack (Rock Cr) snow free hikingrlown wrote:That is so cool!! what lakes are those and how did you get into them?
Ruby and Fourth Recess via Mono Pass (fairly serious post holing)
Duck Lake via Duck Pass on skis a couple of days ago.
Here's a pretty fun video from Topsy Turvy earlier this fall.
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Unbelievable photos!
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