ice skating… 100-mile Ice Skate in Katmai National Park 15 Jan 202621 Jan 2026 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXqoUVId6lk Alaska experienced a sustained cold spell throughout December, which froze many lakes without snow cover. I tracked satellite imagery and weather forecasts, hoping to find a novel skating destination…
ice skating… Highly likely, low consequence: The learning sweet spot. 29 Feb 202429 Feb 2024 I returned from an avalanche course last weekend and Sarah welcomed me home by exclaiming, "You are going to be so jealous!" She and Hannah had gone ice skating that…
ice skating The Glide: Camouflage Ice 20 Dec 2023 November, 2022. Hannah Brewster's favorite place to skate is the Palmer Hay Flats and Rabbit Slough. Her pet project is trying to find all of the sneaky connections between larger…
ice skating… The Glide: Rapidly Thinning Ice at Skilak Lake 20 Dec 2023 December, 2021. Sarah and I rented the Lower Russian Lake USFS cabin on the Kenai Peninsula Christmas day. We planned to ski to the cabin, knowing that there was a…
ice skating The Glide: Ice Rings II 17 Dec 2023 New insights regarding ice rings! You might want to catch up with the original post: Waves in Slush! I heard from a few people who describe ice rings forming by…
ice skating The Glide: Ice Rings 8 Dec 202317 Dec 2023 I noticed stripes in the ice at Big Lake last week and recalled Karl Ramsdell's incredible photos of ice rings in Maine: https://www.instagram.com/p/CYli4CQLmD9/ I returned to Big Lake with a…
ice skating… Lake Clark Skate Date 4 Apr 20235 Apr 2023 Lake Clark, and Lake Clark National Park, is a precious pocket of Alaska bound by the Chigmit, Neacola, and Alaska Ranges. The tallest mountains rise 10,000 feet from rugged beaches,…
ice skating… Trusting Tustumena 20 Mar 202324 Mar 2023 Tustumena is the largest lake in the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge (and one of the ten largest in Alaska), three hours south of Anchorage. The Dena'ina name is reported as…
ice skating… Navigating Pressure Ridges at Skilak Lake 5 Feb 2023 We caught a brief window of skating on Skilak Lake last week. The prominent hazards turned out to be pressure ridges—zones of cracked ice under compression. This post contains: The…
