With Tioga Pass still open ... and Tenaya Lake frozen ... the ice skaters are out ... saw some on the news tonight in Sacramento and found this YouTube video: Link
With Tioga Pass still open ... and Tenaya Lake frozen ... the ice skaters are out ... saw some on the news tonight in Sacramento and found this YouTube video: Link
Wow that is so cool.
Slick.
The Yosemite High Country is one of my favorite places in the world.
--P
Preston-Columbia CA
"If you want nice fresh oats, you have to pay a fair price. If you can be satisfied with oats that have already been through the horse; that comes a little cheaper."
Judging by the number of recent videos posted on YouTube, this seems to be quite the once–in–a–lifetime fad. I wonder how the ice strength was determined?
By people not falling through. Yet.
The last time I saw Tenaya frozen without snow was in January of 1976. This occurrence is really quite something.
If no one falls through, one could almost say they skated by on that one.
--P
Preston-Columbia CA
"If you want nice fresh oats, you have to pay a fair price. If you can be satisfied with oats that have already been through the horse; that comes a little cheaper."
I knew somebody would make a crack.
I posted a collection of Tenaya Lake ice skating videos on my G+ account.
The latest TPR closure date in recorded history occurred on Jan 1 in 1999. 2012 could set the new record...
Michael E. Gordon
http://www.michael-gordon.com
With some of these slightly deeper lakes in the Sierra at that altitude you can get
warm convection water rising under the ice. It get relatively sunny. Last time something like this happened a few folks tried their luck on Convict Lk and went thru
the thin spots. I think six died.
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