On: Hair Ice

[ddtaylor]

Apparently this can happen in the Washinton area:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIOGeVPlbWM

[randomstring → ddtaylor]

I can report that it does. I've seen this hiking in Snohomish County, WA. Hair ice looks a bit like cotton fluff, like something splitting out of a seed pod. It looks like it is growing out of the pieces of wood or bark. The ice crushes like a lightly packed snowball.

Of course this means you have to go hiking in the cold. Totally worth it.

[djsumdog → ddtaylor]

Huh. I wonder if it's the same fungus, or if there are other fungi that have evolved the same trait.