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Today I got off the farm (for a little while) and saw cool early spring things! -
Today I got off the farm (for a little while) and saw cool early spring things!@hlangeveld @sundogplanets Collectively I'd call this "candle ice". Individual elements, "ice candles". Tanacross Dene (one of the Indigenous languages of Interior Alaska) has a specific way to refer to this kind of ice: ɬuut els̲uus lit "ice is cone-shaped". This kind of ice is unsafe to travel on.
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Today I got off the farm (for a little while) and saw cool early spring things!@sundogplanets Ice candles! Common way for lake ice to melt out in mainland Alaska. The sound is amazing, especially when the decaying ice is moved by the wind, i.e. no human intervention.