Ice Skating on Tenaya Lake in Yosemite

[Jim Graves]

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

[Frank Petronio]

Wow that is so cool.

[Preston]

Slick.

The Yosemite High Country is one of my favorite places in the world.

--P

[ROL]

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?

[Kevin Crisp]

By people not falling through. Yet.

[Preston]

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

[Kevin Crisp]

I knew somebody would make a crack.

[Michael Gordon]

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...

[ROL]

I knew somebody would make a crack.

Skate with a heavier partner?

[Drew Wiley]

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.