Here was 1. And for reasons I’ll explain at the end of this post, this title might not be the best one. Maybe by that time, you’ll figure out a better one as well. The idea came from here–Nord Snow Queen I took in March 2012 in Panama, and then a friend’s photo from Cappadocia, which I’ll add at the end of this post.
So a better name might be ovens and freezers, or heat & ice, given that photos 2, 4, and 6 . . . as well as 1 were taken in temperatures close to 100 F (Bonneville Desert) whereas photos 3, 5, and 7 were Hudson River in this winter I now wish would subside into history. Here’s the photo from Tuz Golu (Salt Lake) in Turkey.
The Turkish photo by Lauren Tivey; all others by Will Van Dorp. And one place I’d like to get to is here.
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February 16, 2014 at 12:36 pm
PaulB
I puckered up tight enough to lift my chair off the deck when I saw that picture of some future SAR subject walking on what I presume is rime ice. Fell through that stuff when I was a kid, trying to steal the batteries out of a channel marker. Took me about 30 seconds to find the hole I made going in, and the frostbite scars on my hands and face are still here. Narrowly missed a Darwin Award, perhaps like our friend in the picture.
February 16, 2014 at 6:31 pm
tugster
paul–interesting. first that was my son, and second . . . that was the bonneville desert, temperature about 100. in fact, he took off walking toward the horizon without a bottle of water or his phone; i worried he’d pass out and i’d have to drive the car out there to pick him him to get him to a hospital. what prompted me to put up that photo is that fact that ice and salty deserts look almost alike. no SAR needed.
February 16, 2014 at 8:13 pm
eastriver
Thanks for the great Doris-on-ice picture. Worked on her in the winter 9 yrs ago, my first ice experience. It’s hard to imagine how loud it is inside the hull unless you’ve been on board one.