Today’s hike photo gallery is mainly single-colored. Even with my good hiking boots I nearly slipped about twenty times. Paths were extremely icy. I reckon 14 and the video show a frozen spider thread, we’ve seen a couple of them, pretty nice. No icicles were visible far and wide, though.
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org I found 12 and 13 to be absolutely stunning. Like, I freaking envy not to be there to see it with my own eyes. Because I have the almost-certain feeling that photos do not make justice to what you saw.
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Wow. Amazing sights (when you weren’t worried about cracking your head, it seems)! ;)
@bender@twtxt.net @jlj@twt.nfld.uk Thanks, mates! :-) Yes, seeing this for real is something entirely different. All the subtleties don’t show up on camera. Not just because of the white balance and snow causing everything to overexpose. But like clouds moving in at the summit and darkening the environment over there a wee bit. It’s only a tiny bit, but still just noticeable. And then looking the other way and observing that it is still brighter because the clouds haven’t reached that spot yet. Low hanging clouds are always super crazy to experience first hand.
As you can see in 01, when we reached the mountain foot, the view to the top was certainly not great but also not too bad, at least we could still see it. Finally up there, zero visibility, because of the clouds (16). It then cleared for a few seconds (17) at the same spot, but only barely. Closed up again quickly, the clouds still had us. The more we descended, the more the clouds moved on as well. Back down, the view from up top must have been heaps better again (at least we could see the flying flag once more). ;-)
All the ice crystals on the trees are really amazing. Super crazy to see what the wind managed to do, building up these beautiful structures.
Another thing that doesn’t come across is walking in the snow and ice. Unfortunately, you miss out on all sorts of different noises it produces and how it feels. Scrunch varies with powdery snow, frozen snow and hollow ice sheets. Also what I really like is how quiet it gets. Snow is an amazing sound dampener.
The wind made the flags raddle around, on our descend we got tricked numerous times and thought that somebody is coming up that snowy beaten track. Walking in that snow and the flying flag made almost the exact same sound. :-)
@prologic@twtxt.net No, that feller was already there. We didn’t modify anything except from leaving out footprints in the snow. ;-)