Insane Ice Cracks

Seems I just can’t stop. I’m obsessed with getting some wicked cool, ultimate insane over the top ice cracks and today was a good day. The last few nights it’s been 20 degrees or lower and this makes for some ice to grow on the lakes around North Idaho. At 8 AM this morning I dragged my ass out of bed and suited up for a cold recording session out in the middle of Round Lake. The sun was in and out of the clouds and the lake was rockin’ as I stood quietly next to the Sennheiser MKH-8040ST. Not a soul was around which is just the way I like it. After a hour or so of deeper cracks a few big ones let go. One of them was right under my feet as you can hear in the demo. It startled me a little but I had my ice shoes on so I did not fall over.

The wildlife were very disturbed by my presence this morning and the ravens and crows were going nuts. A few geese flew over and there were some hawk screeches (you can hear one faintly in the demo) The trains were quiet so i was really excited to see what I could get. Some of the cracks circled me in surround (wish I had that kind of setup today) and I could hear them start at one end and end up on the other side where there is open water at the outlet.

Some interesting facts I learned about this lake from the ranger on duty:

1) The lake is almost perfectly round and deep for it’s size.

2) The lake is stream fed from the East and drains on the West. This makes the water swirl around the outer edges when the inlet brings more water in than the outlet can drain. When it warms it pushes the ice and makes it bulge and get thinner at the North shore.

3) People have fallen though the ice but no one has drowned, good thing!

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