Posted on 02/20/2015 1:35:02 PM PST by NYer
The winter's deep freeze has transformed Niagara Falls into an icy spectacle, encasing the trees around it into crystal shells — a sight that's drawing tourists.
The Niagara River keeps flowing below the ice cover, so the falls aren't totally frozen over. But the massive ice buildup near the brink has become a tourist magnet for the second straight year after several relatively mild winters.
Visitors have been flocking to Niagara Falls State Park, next to the American Falls, one of three waterfalls that make up the natural attraction. The cold has created a thick coating of ice and snow on every surface near the falls, including railings, trees and boulders.
Things aren't expected to thaw out any time soon: Temperatures dipped to -22 C in Niagara Falls on Friday morning.
On Jan. 27, daredevil adventurer Will Gadd became the first person to climb a wall of spray ice at the edge of Niagara's Horseshoe Falls.
The Alberta man was named National Geographic's adventurer of the year in 2015.
Gadd, 47, was followed by another Canadian, Sarah Hueniken, 34, who grew up near the falls.
The climb was started on the American side of the falls, the National Geographic reported on its website.
"It's the biggest, coolest, wildest, most well-known waterfall in North America," Gadd told CBC's Carol Off. "As an ice climber, that's very, very attractive."
Spring is on the way .... but not yet, ping!
A few of us South-Floridians went there a few years back. Was the first week in Nov. and we were shaking like a leaf!
The bathroom had a sink on/in the floor for washing the mud off your boots I presume.
seal our whiskey = steal our whiskey
To all- please ping me to Canadian topics.
Canada Ping!
Is that *another* word that you thieving Canucks don't know how to spell? ;-)
This is right down the street from me.
As I drive thru my windshield always gets mist on it.
It has been so incredibly cold here for all too long.
Scots, of whom many Canadians are ancestors, spell it “whisky.” All non-Scotch uh whisky is spelled “whiskey.”
While I wasn't specifically aware of that I'm not surprised.Of course there are a number of words that we Yanks spell,and pronounce,differently than do subjects of the Queen...and I've just learned of the existence of another one.
But I absolutely draw the line at haggis! ;-)
Can we send politicians down in barrels?
No haggis for me, either. The rule I remember is that Irish & Americans make whiskey, Scots & Canadians make whisky. The colloquial term here is “rye” for the main ingredient used to make Canadian whisky.
A lot of what is sold as haggis today is not made up of the old, disgusting ingredients. So I’ve been told.
The pressure-fed fountain is in a pond near the Glen Iris Inn at Letchworth State Park, which straddles the Wyoming-Livingston county line 40 miles south of Rochester. Days of subzero temperatures have formed a solid cone of ice several feet thick with water still spouting out of the top.
Park officials tell local media that the formation dubbed an ice volcano is at least 50 feet high.
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