Hi fellow Hiveians,

Today I'm back with the last batch of photos from the frozen river I was walking along the other day!

Frozen Sandy Morning Walk

The weather here has been remarkable cold lately! It's been a pretty enjoyable thing for me that's for sure!

We are currently a little bit above freezing, hitting around the 40's and that was pretty nice. We ended up taking a little walk today to stretch and get some fresh air which was nice, because just like last week and it's going to continue for a bit, we are getting some reaaaaally cold as weather coming up! This means that there may be more frozen river walks in store if things shake out..

The nice thing about these rivers and areas that we spend a lot of time in is that there is usually decent places to park! There are so many places that I want to visit and figure out where to go, but the biggest pain in the ass is that it's incredibly difficult to figure out where you can park in these damn places.

Thankfully this area of the river was pretty easy, as it's got a bit of neighborhood near by so there was a lot of open area for me to pull up and figure out how the heck to get down to the waters edge. I think for me, that is one of the most challenging aspects of enjoying the presence of a water area. We've been to a bunch of places where I tried to go fishing with my son but we couldn't figure out where the hell we can park, so we gave up and went somewhere else lol.

The combination of the ice flows and the early morning sun were really nice! I love seeing the reflection of that giant orange ball as it comes over the trees and hits the water and ice. It was cold as shit when I was there, but with the sun hitting you directly, the coldness is a little more bearable as you get a degree or two of warmth from the radiation.

I find it really wild that the river can be as wide as this is, but still have a thin sheet of ice covering a vast majority of it. The water moves pretty quick, and it is absolutely constant so the fact that it is covered at all is quite the wonder. With the picture below though, you can see that there is a lot of pressure on the ice that is at the peripheries of the river! It gets pushed up quite a bit as time goes on, and debris or more ice gets in the mix and just pushes outward until it hits the sandy shoreline.

I think one of the things that we missed this year was going fishing down at the spot here. We went here 2 years ago and it was pretty enjoyable, minus the fact that we got some poison ivy lol. This allowed me to have a little bit of insight as to the cool path the shoreline takes until you get to some private property which I wasn't intending on getting near. As long as the river is at a lower water level like it is here, you are good to walk quite a distance downstream which is cool! There were some kids that ended up walking a really long way one year and although we followed for a little while, we headed back when they got to a big debris pile.

With the increasingly cold temperatures coming up this week, with already freezing cold water, I wonder what the ice formations are going to look like towards the end of the week!

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