Bear Lake doesn’t freeze every year, but when it does there
are sometimes good photo opportunities when the ice breaks up.
Most of the ice blows ashore at just a few places. Here at Cisco Beach huge piles of ice stack
up, and as they scrape across the rocks, boulders are sometimes lifted several
feet off the ground. Strong blue colors
show up in ice protected from snow and frost.
Sometimes vertical slabs of ice melt into fantastic delicate
patterns. Maybe their angle to the sun
helps them melt faster than horizontal slabs.
The ice at Rainbow Cove had several of these wonderful delicate shapes.
The lake was covered by a fog bank in the distance, behind
another delicate ice formation at Rainbow Cove.
Every time I explore Bear Lake I find something new. The lake seems to have different moods every season, and I never get tired of the beauty of places like Rainbow
Cove. The fog and ice on this day was really
special.
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