"Snow Cave" - High up in the mountains of the Wasatch, your blog host encounters a cave of snow. In the foreground, sharp icicle needles pose the first barrier to entry.

"The Great Wall of Ice" - Ice animals; this giant wall of ice was serendipitously discovered by blog host while hiking in the Wasatch Mountains of N. Utah. [If one looks at the bottom foreground of the photograph, one starts to notice shapes of different animals. - ed.]
This massive structure of ice is approximately 40 feet high as evidenced by the tree on the left of the photo.

"You Stepped Out of a Dream" - (Source: Popular song by Nacio Herb Brown, lyrics by Gus Kahn, 1940.) Stepping through glacial time portal, July 1990.

"For the earth is hollow and I have touched the sky." (Source: Star Trek original series.) Rare moment of passing cloud transitting natural orifice of snow cave, June 1991.

Rare natural snow bridge, located outside former smaller ice caves - Mount Rainier, Washington, July 1990. [Upon closer inspection, one can see the water dripping from the edge of the bridge. - ed.]

"Ice Quad" - The above four "fantasy ice" shots were taken in the vicinity of Big Cottonwood Canyon, n. Utah. Ice growth in that year was extraordinary.

Note: The following three ice climbing photographs were taken by the blog host in his distant youth. Location: Stairway to Heaven, Bridal Veil Falls - American Fork, Utah. - ed.

"Two ice fledglings" - Attempting their first rung of the ice ladder.

"Ice in your face, buddy"

"Human Ant Scaling the Frosty Blue"

"Emeralds in the Snow" - Giant green broken icicles in the snow, created by absorption of copper from the rocks from which the icicles were formed.

"Ice Quad" - Aqua, frosty blue, ice cold teal, and frigid white gave this ice climber quite a fright, hoping he'll scale the pinnacles and make it home that night. Like poet Robert Frost, he had miles to go before he would sleep.

This ice man thinketh that he is an island unto himself, but in reality he is man against a cascade of water frozen in time.

Two intrepid climbers chipping their way to the top, pitted against this icy monolith. What shall be their fate? Shall they conquer the summit, or be absorbed by this stone cold glacier?

"Ice Octopus" - Giant iceberg with green tentacles floating on a sea of blue.

"Man at the End of the Tunnel" - Man vs. Ice; don't wander too far. You may end up frozen in time.