Large ice falls at the base of Eddy Mountain. The tree at the base of the falls provides some size perspective.
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March 7, 2018
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This reminds me of the first time I saw a frozen waterfall. I wondered for a long time how it could freeze when the water was moving in mid-air.
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Comment by wordsfromanneli — March 7, 2018 @ 2:55 pm
If I recall, I think there is a waterfall that comes down through the crevice along the left side: it would be behind the visible ice now. The rest of those seem to be free hanging icicles.
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Comment by montucky — March 7, 2018 @ 5:29 pm
Very pretty in a cold way.
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Comment by wordsfromanneli — March 7, 2018 @ 7:36 pm
Very cold!
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Comment by montucky — March 7, 2018 @ 7:39 pm
Great photo
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Comment by thelonelyauthorblog — March 7, 2018 @ 3:15 pm
Thanks!
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Comment by montucky — March 7, 2018 @ 5:30 pm
Wow! I wouldn’t want to be standing near those in June!
They’re an ice climber’s paradise. I wonder if anyone climbs them.
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Comment by New Hampshire Garden Solutions — March 7, 2018 @ 4:11 pm
I doubt that there is any climbing activity there, but I really don’t know. It would be extremely difficult to even get close to these because the bottom of them looks to be over a hundred feet above any flat ground. I just added a photo the post that shows a more complete look at the surrounding landscape.
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Comment by montucky — March 7, 2018 @ 5:34 pm
That’s amazing. Really BIG ice. I wouldn’t climb it but I’ve met many who would be willing to try.
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Comment by New Hampshire Garden Solutions — March 7, 2018 @ 7:15 pm
Personally, I think climbing that would involve an obituary.
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Comment by montucky — March 7, 2018 @ 7:22 pm
Here’s a short video of what they do here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pePLnbzMwCI
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Comment by New Hampshire Garden Solutions — March 7, 2018 @ 7:29 pm
Wow! That’s a massive mountain of ice!
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Comment by montucky — March 7, 2018 @ 7:34 pm
Amazing.
Do any of the ice spikes drop off or do they gradually melt? (excuse my ignorance, but living in such a moderate climate myself, I really can’t imagine).
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Comment by Vicki — March 7, 2018 @ 4:55 pm
I really don’t know what these will do, but I imagine they will do some of both. I sure wouldn’t want to be very close when they came down!
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Comment by montucky — March 7, 2018 @ 5:21 pm
Love it, Ice falls are so great. , I just did post on Hay Falls NB. Cheers
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Comment by Kelly MacKay — March 7, 2018 @ 6:13 pm
I enjoyed your post. That looks like there is a waterfall buried on the left side.
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Comment by montucky — March 7, 2018 @ 6:23 pm
I’m guessing yes, I will have to return when thawed to compare
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Comment by Kelly MacKay — March 7, 2018 @ 6:25 pm
Ice and snow is wholly unfamiliar to most of us in sunny South Africa, so the mind boggles at seeing images like these – how cold must it be to freeze a waterfall, and one that size!?!?!?
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Comment by de Wets Wild — March 7, 2018 @ 7:55 pm
The top part of this one is just huge icicles, some I would estimate are 50 feet long, and those form as ordinary icicles, when a film of ice trickles down over the original icicle and then grows as the drop at the end freezes. The rest, the part that is over an actual waterfall forms much the same was, only it grows in front of the waterfall. The water is still running beneath or behind it. It takes many weeks of freezing weather to form. This one is located in an area that gets no sun because it is always in the shade of the mountain.
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Comment by montucky — March 7, 2018 @ 8:12 pm
Incredible!
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Comment by de Wets Wild — March 7, 2018 @ 8:23 pm
😊
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Comment by montucky — March 7, 2018 @ 8:39 pm
The scale of that ice is astounding. Occasionally we’ll get to see ice forming from seeps in the limestone rock, especially in road cuts, but of course there’s nothing like this. The best icicles I saw this year were about eight inches long at the edge of a fountain. I do remember being warned again and again as a child not to stand or walk under the icicles that formed at the rooflines of buildings. Some of those could be several feet long, and when melting commenced, they sometimes just dropped.
The second photo looks rather like a cake that someone has drizzled icing over. I guess in a way that’s true — it’s just a different form of icing!
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Comment by shoreacres — March 7, 2018 @ 8:02 pm
The first photo is actually a telephoto of the ice section at the right side of the second photo. The two photos were taken from the same location: the second with a 35mm lens and the first one with a 70-300mm telephoto lens. The ice was about a mile away. I estimate the longer of the icicles are over 50 feet long.
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Comment by montucky — March 7, 2018 @ 8:31 pm
Wow, look at that ice!😀
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Comment by heartandsoul974 — March 7, 2018 @ 8:38 pm
I think of those scenes as a reward for putting up with the cold weather that allows them to form.
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Comment by montucky — March 7, 2018 @ 8:43 pm
I was thinking how cold but really beautiful!😀
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Comment by heartandsoul974 — March 7, 2018 @ 8:45 pm
I know. I love these mountains, summer, winter, spring and fall. They are beautiful in so many different ways.
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Comment by montucky — March 7, 2018 @ 9:12 pm
I agree with you…I love the changing seasons and that’s why I live in New England!😄👍
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Comment by heartandsoul974 — March 8, 2018 @ 5:00 am
I am fascinated by frozen waterfalls and this one is spectacular. I even enjoy seeing the small ones frozen down rocky hillsides here but of course they aren’t as huge as that one!
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Comment by Mama's Empty Nest — March 8, 2018 @ 7:57 am
They are plentiful here every winter, some winters more than others, but this is one of the largest. As far as I know though it isn’t readily approachable up close and so the huge size of it is difficult to grasp. These photos were from about a mile away.
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Comment by montucky — March 8, 2018 @ 9:07 am
Wow! What sight to see!
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Comment by Mama's Empty Nest — March 8, 2018 @ 10:24 am
It’s an awesome sight, even for here where ice is very common.
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Comment by montucky — March 8, 2018 @ 10:30 am
Wow, that’s amazing! I’ve never seen anything like that, what a huge scale!
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Comment by Candace — March 9, 2018 @ 7:07 pm
Yes, “huge” is a good word for it. At a glance from a long distance they don’t look so big, but with the trees for perspective, those icicles are huge!
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Comment by montucky — March 9, 2018 @ 8:51 pm
Wow, spectacular!
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Comment by Jo Woolf — March 10, 2018 @ 1:15 am
Yes, it’s quite an ice display.
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Comment by montucky — March 10, 2018 @ 8:35 am
Those ice falls must be massive .. that tree gives wonderful perspective
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Comment by Julie@frogpondfarm — March 11, 2018 @ 3:18 pm
I think those are the biggest icicles that I’ve ever seen.
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Comment by montucky — March 11, 2018 @ 5:24 pm
Really gorgeous photos. I have never seen anything similar in my life. Thank You.
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Comment by Sartenada — March 13, 2018 @ 1:15 am
Thanks! These are the largest icicles I’ve ever seen.
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Comment by montucky — March 13, 2018 @ 11:32 am