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View from inside an ice cave, Rifle Mountain Park.
Every winter, I try to make one or two trips to the ice caves in Rifle Mountain Park, a unique area in northwest Colorado. The park is best known for its world class ice and rock climbing, but I like it for the great photo opportunities. Every year the flow of ice is a bit different due to weather and the pattern of thaw and freeze cycles. There’s always something new to photograph.
Strange Ice formation in an ice cave.
This year, my trip in mid-March was marked by very little snow, but lots of ice thanks to all the warm days and cold nights. I found some real interesting ice formations. I also shot some timelapse for a music video that I’ve been working on all winter. That will be next post! 😉
When I saw the title, I thought you had gone all the way up to Minnesota (oops, Wisconsin). I had to be up there for some personal stuff in early March, so my brother and I went to the ice caves on Lake Superior, very cool (not to mention quite cold), only accessible when Lake Superior freezes, which happens only every 10 years or so. I didn’t know Colorado had its own ice caves.
Here is a shot that looks a bit like a mirror image of yours, but from the Lake Superior caves.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pwahl/13036762083/
Hey Patrick–I WISH I could have made it to the L Superior Caves–I had to drool from a distance this winter! The CO caves are smaller. Nice shot!