Hey out there: Niagra Falls is Frozen

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HermitMaster

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Topic Author's Original Post - Mar 4, 2014 - 10:51pm PT

Any takers?

Clint Cummins

Trad climber

SF Bay area, CA

Mar 4, 2014 - 10:57pm PT

Probably somebody has already done it!

One problem - when it gets cold enough to freeze that much of it,
the ice is very hard and it's tough to get your tools to penetrate it.

Kalimon

Social climber

Ridgway, CO

Mar 4, 2014 - 11:26pm PT

Is that a recent photo?

HermitMaster

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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 4, 2014 - 11:37pm PT

I think it is. But, to be honest, I do not know for sure. It's from an article today in the UK's "Daily Mail"

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2572681/Niagara-Falls-comes-frozen-halt-AGAIN-subfreezing-temperatures-freeze-millions-gallons-water-normally-flow-Falls.html

In the link above there are many photos. I assume they are recent. (There is a video too.) And, I'm no expert on the falls, but evidently, the falls have frozen twice this year.

Clint Cummins

Trad climber

SF Bay area, CA

Mar 4, 2014 - 11:54pm PT

There's plenty of water still flowing in that photo,
but a few bits frozen in between,
and the ice mushrooms from the frozen mist.
Probably the crux would be hopping the mushrooms to reach
the frozen bits on the main falls.