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"Pancake" Ice at Lampson Falls

Posted by Justin Dalaba,
North Country explorer from
December 7, 2014 —

It was a brisk but beautiful morning to explore Lampson Falls in early winter. The falls had not frozen over fully yet and to my surprise, the conditions were just right to form "pancake ice," which are small patches of floating ice that look a lot like round pancakes!