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It was freezing around Pequeño Alpamayo base camp.
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[ Post a Comment ]| EricChu | This is extraordinary!! | | 
Voted 10/10 | I don't think I've ever seen something like that!! | | Posted Mar 3, 2011 1:35 pm |
 | | rgg | Re: This is extraordinary!! | | 
Hasn't voted | I've seen something like this before, but not often, and then it was caused by freezing rain.
In this case, the explanation must be something else, for as far as I can remember, it didn't rain at all the days I was climbing Pequeño Alpamayo.
In fact, I can only recall one short spell of light rain in the whole five weeks that I was in Bolivia. Sure, it's a bit colder in winter, but still, excellent climbing conditions!
Basically, winter on the altiplano is dry. Very, very dry. A whole lot different from what's happened in La Paz a few days ago :-(. Completely foreseeable, but sad nonetheless. | | Posted Mar 3, 2011 1:50 pm |
| | nartreb | Re: This is extraordinary!! | | 
Hasn't voted | This can happen when rime or hoarfrost partially melts in the sun, then refreezes overnight. The tiny white frost crystals merge into a single glassy matrix while keeping most of their shape.
Guess the wind direction when these ones were originally deposited:
refrozen ice
Sometimes the process repeats: rime on ice | | Posted Mar 3, 2011 3:24 pm |
| | EricChu | Re: This is extraordinary!! | |
Voted 10/10 | Sure, but I wonder how many times it turns out to be something so regular and so exquisitely beautiful...like a Swarovsky creation... | | Posted Mar 3, 2011 5:55 pm |
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