August Snow Melt

Categories: Frozen DHMO (167), Sierras (37)

Tags: cold (7), desolation (4), half (128), hiking (33), lake (65), melt (17), moon (300), sierras (8), snow (120), ssc (16), swim (12), tahoe (16), wilderness (9)

Canon PowerShot S90

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When jumping in to Half Moon Lake, the thought occurred to me that the waterfalls of melting snow in the bowl all around me were close to 32°F.

Yowsa! That was a refreshing zinger in the middle of a seven hour hike in Desolation Wilderness.

9 responses to “August Snow Melt”

Pieces of Eye

Aug 5, 2011 at 2:59 am

Ever join a polar bear club?

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Dr DAD (Daniel A D’Auria MD)

Aug 5, 2011 at 3:12 am

Ouch!

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!MimosaMicheMichelle!

Aug 5, 2011 at 3:44 am

If you imagined you were in the dessert, it would be OK to take a dip into water that has the "faucet" on at 32°F (0°C). The mountain lakes in Québec are cool too.

It is a gorgeous photo!

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solerena

Aug 5, 2011 at 4:18 am

Lucky you! have been in this place only once….passing by…want to hike there too…although not that emancipated to go there alone…

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jurvetson

Aug 5, 2011 at 4:16 pm

heh…. maybe if I was a professional swimmer…. No, I was the photographer. I promised to go in if she did, so that came next…. and well, I did not have a bathing suit… Yowsa++

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jurvetson

Aug 5, 2011 at 4:48 pm

um…. au naturel….

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solerena

Aug 5, 2011 at 5:16 pm

🙂

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cy esp

Aug 5, 2011 at 7:31 pm

Been there, done that, and would love to do it again!

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Black&Color

Aug 21, 2011 at 5:57 am

Oh my, you have no idea, it is so so so hot here!! To see this image…

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