Candle Ice

Apr 7, 2026 10:18 PM

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Candle ice, also known as rotten ice, is a fragile form of ice that develops in vertical, honeycomb-like columns. It occurs in early spring as sunlight and warming temperatures unevenly melt thick lake ice, causing the ice to break into vertical crystals rather than melting as a solid sheet.

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Nightmare edition: Its all fiber glass!

3 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

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3 months ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

Don't fall in. Hypothermia is no joke

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Cocktails and the perfect ice cubes is all I see.

3 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

He couldn’t break a couple?? I wanna hear what they sound like when they snap!

3 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

In a t-shirt

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3 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

Where is that

3 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

If you fall in, would you be able to swim in it? Does anyone know?

3 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

How long until some conspiracy loon claims this is because aliens or chemtrails or communism?

3 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Cool

3 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Shit's cold, y0.

3 months ago | Likes 98 Dislikes 1

I legitimately got cold watching this

3 months ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

The perfect spring water.

3 months ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

That’s really cool!

3 months ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 0

Ahh, the home of the legendary Supermin

3 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Some fortress of solitude type shit poppin off up in this bitch son. Damn! Heck!

3 months ago | Likes 19 Dislikes 1

Wading through that leaves nasty cuts.

3 months ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Hadn't considered that, but probably pretty similar to the gnarly scrapes you get sliding on ice without gloves or in a t-shirt?

3 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Neat

3 months ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

i really like Baja Blast!

3 months ago | Likes 28 Dislikes 1

Our father, who art in heaven.
Baja be thy blast.

3 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I still never tasted it.

3 months ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

You have to get it from the fountain, the bottled stuff just doesn't hit the same

3 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Nothing rotten about it, Johnny!

3 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

The conditions that cause it, likley also rotted food stored somewhere so when you saw it you called it that because everyone had to go check their food storage for rot

3 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Maybe, or it's rotten and won't support you , like rotten wood?

3 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I wonder what his survival odds would be if he tipped. Kayakers die in glacial bays frequently.

3 months ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Poor, about 5% chance of immediate drowning from cold shock, something like 20% chance that he manages to get back in the kayak and start paddling to shore, if not, incapacitation within 5-15 minutes and death shortly after. Even if he manages to get back in the kayak it might not save him since hypothermia could still set in before reaching the shore. When kayaking you have to dress for the water temps, not the air. I wouldn't go out on water that cold without at least a wet suit and skirt.

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Hypothermia can be a deadly surprise. I survived my encounter because I was lucky to be close enough to a shoreline but when I got there I could not get up; I had to log-roll out of the water and lie there on the rocks long enough for the Sun to warm me, like a lizard.

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Bad. Hypothermia is no joke and water is 20 times more conductive to heat than air. Even if the immediate shock doesn't make the situation worse, at near-freezing temperatures you're talking 2 minutes to symptoms, less than 15 minutes of submersion to unconsciousness and *at most* 45 minutes to death.

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