Comments on: On the Distant Peak of Ice Mountain, the Truth Waits… http://www.underarockart.com/2013/11/24/distant-peak-ice-mountain-truth-waits/ Daily art, with a rocky twist Mon, 10 Jan 2022 12:40:06 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 By: Dad http://www.underarockart.com/2013/11/24/distant-peak-ice-mountain-truth-waits/#comment-910 Tue, 26 Nov 2013 12:05:04 +0000 http://www.underarockart.com/?p=2189#comment-910 Given the tree branches, you must be on the high ground above the beach. Let me guess 15 feet from the beach. The first ice ridge is usually 30 feet out the frozen lake from there, and the second ice ridge is usually 20 to 30 feet past that. Let me guess 65 feet away.

That ice peak is only about six feet tall. The ice ridges are formed by the waves as Lake Huron freezes over in early winter. Sometimes an inlet in the ice ridge channels the waves to splash upward, so the ridge acquires a peak that is much like the volcanic splattercones at the Craters of the Moon National Park.

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