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Sunday, 3 December 2006 - Waterfalls, paused

A couple of weeks ago while driving along Turnagain Arm I was surprised to see the massive ice formations clinging to the rock wass along the road. The only words to describe them are 'ice stalactites', and with all the little streams and waterfalls that are always falling, I'd imagine they form in a pretty similar manner to their mineral bretheren. I recently observed a sunrise out there between the Turnagain Arm Trail and McHugh Creek Trail, and while the sunrise itself was rather lackluster the stalactites got a chance to shine.

Waterfalls frozen mid-fall make these icy formations | exposure info unavailable | manual mode

Nikon D50

Posted by smoore to landscape & terrain at 01:20

Comments

Jared commented:

My only question is: "What the crap were you doing driving around at 1:30 in the morning?!"

Posted on December 12, 2006 2:37 AM

Jitterbean Girl commented:

Well, see, the only way I could have possibly gotten a sunrise (or sunset, for that matter) shot at 1:30 in the morning is if it was, of course, summer! So given that a) there is ice in the photo, b) that I am in relatively southern Alaska and our average temperature this summer was in the low 70s/high 60s, and c) that I do shift work and am often up at ungodly vampire hours, it's safe to assume that I took the photo at a still-extreme-but-on-the-other-end-of-the-spectrum time (which at three days out from solstice -- but who's counting -- would have occurred at 10:12am) and just so happened to post it shortly after midnight :)

Ahhh, let the snarkiness ensue!

Posted on December 18, 2006 4:25 AM

Jared commented:

I think I'd like to get snarky about you using the word "snarkiness"...

Posted on January 9, 2007 3:08 AM