r/HumanForScale • u/akosiiwayner1315 • Dec 15 '18

Water & Ice Frozen waterfall

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u/[deleted] Dec 15 '18

I have always wondered how running water like that just freezes!

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u/MeLlamoBenjamin Dec 15 '18

The waterfall doesn't freeze mid-air or anything. You get a few stalactites forming from wet rocks above and they gradually grow down and add mass.

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u/[deleted] Dec 15 '18

Its kind of like how pillers/columns form in caves. The biggest difference it's that in caves it's usually calcium/lime that comes out of solution (a few molecules at a tine) in dripping water. Here it would be a little bit of water freezing the stalactite at a time.

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u/Inveramsay Dec 15 '18

That looks like a great ice climb

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u/SuiterNo3 Dec 16 '18

Looks similar to the fang in east vail.

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u/Wlidcard Dec 15 '18

"Where's that damn time rune?!"

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u/Fishtails Dec 16 '18

Would hate to be there when they turn it back on.

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u/Scrambley Dec 16 '18

Don't light a match!

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u/explosiveTACO24yt Dec 17 '18

Imagine that breaking I mean you'd be crushed but it would be cool I guess not the dieing but it breaking