Wild ice & a snowy beaver pond

Okanagan · February 27, 2011, 07:51:20 PM

Went looking for tracks in snow and only got scenics. The small falls below has been posted before, but this time it has a cone of ice built up at the bottom. The hole in the top of the ice bowl is 6-8 feet diameter I'd guess.

A multi-level pond contained by old beaver dams on a creek. The snow is over a foot deep on the level.

pitw · February 27, 2011, 08:10:47 PM

Looks like a reverse osmosis type volcano

. Funny to see water and ice together like that. Thanks

FinsnFur · February 28, 2011, 05:30:50 PM

Very cool. Mother nature never runs out of ways to awe us. That beaver damn is really cool.

Thanks for sharing those.

HaMeR · February 28, 2011, 08:02:06 PM

That is definitely a cool pic of the waterfall!! Thanks!!

iahntr · February 28, 2011, 08:08:43 PM

Yep, very cool !
It can be pretty wild how ice can
form differently around running water.
Thanks

FOsteology · February 28, 2011, 08:10:41 PM

Neat looking "volcano effect"!

Okanagan · March 01, 2011, 12:55:18 AM

Quote from: FOsteology on February 28, 2011, 08:10:41 PM
Neat looking "volcano effect"!

Yep, it really has that volcano look. Years ago in Wells Gray park in BC, hunting moose in -40 (stupid) we went over to Helmcken Falls. A river runs off an undercut cliff, drops over 400 feet, and the ice from spray and splash had built up over half way to the lip of the falls. It was a huge cone over 200 feet high I'd guess, weighed tons and tons. The hole in the top of that cone was a good 40 feet across or more, with a river pouring into it and running under it out the bottom somewhere. Wish I had a pic of that.

Just did a google search and came up with the link below. Not nearly as high a cone as we saw but it gives the idea. Helmcken Falls with ice cone below.

http://www.google.ca/imgres?imgurl=http://www.chrisharris.com/newsletter/45/C7315-0309-hdr.o.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.chrisharris.com/newsletter/45/2009-apr.html&usg=__GgMnuarntcC9TCHWt1IDVAaiHIc=&h=405&w=600&sz=134&hl=en&start=144&zoom=1&tbnid=ZFQ9n8hWvWEt_M:&tbnh=133&tbnw=181&ei=ipZsTfzqD4a0sAPC-JmvBQ&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dhelmcken%2Bfalls%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DX%26biw%3D1164%26bih%3D570%26tbs%3Disch:10%2C3128&um=1&itbs=1&iact=hc&vpx=848&vpy=291&dur=1904&hovh=184&hovw=273&tx=189&ty=95&oei=TZZsTZKqM4u4sAO-v5ysBQ&page=8&ndsp=18&ved=1t:429,r:11,s:144&biw=1164&bih=570

HaMeR · March 01, 2011, 06:27:20 AM

Dang that guy is gooooood!! Thanks for posting that link up too!!

Hawks Feather · March 01, 2011, 11:44:07 AM

Neat pictures. I have been watching a few of the Alaska Highway Patrol shows and they have had some great shots of the mountains too.

Jerry