#ice window

[logwire]

ice cream cones  in the window

[hanguero]

Guess he can’t hide his heritage after all.

[telomeke]

Skaters glide across a rare 'ice window' at Rabbit Lake, Alaska in late October 2023, as ice rescue instructor Luc Mehl describes the experience and explains the phenomenon.

[Transcript of Luc's voiceover:

So usually these lakes are all covered with snow by the time the water freezes, umm… and I've been skating for about 12 years up here and this is… I've never seen it like that. A lot of what we were seeing below the ice were these HUGE boulders… Like, some of them were car-sized boulders that, you know, hundreds or thousands of years ago had fallen down these mountains, umm… into the bottom of the lake and.. and so the topography of that was really fascinating… It reminded me of… of snorkeling more than any other activity that I've done. I think what was so special about this ice is that because it's… it's up in the Alpine, it's up in the mountains, the lake bottom doesn't have any umm… vegetation and it's… it's rock instead of soil, umm… and so the water is REALLY clear. It's gone, yep, that was the… that window lasted about one week and now we've got, umm… two feet, uhh… 50 cm of snow over everything.

End voiceover transcript.]

[ryancreary]

winter window.