On an ice fishing trip to Wyoming’s Boysen Reservoir, Ed and Deanna Reish, along with grandson McCrae Puckett, stumbled on to a beautiful phenomenon — the lake was covered with a field of large hoarfrost crystals that looked like a sea of frosty “sagebrush.”
By Andrew Rossi, Cowboy State News
Deanna and Ed Reish were taking their 6-year-old grandson McCrae Puckett on his first ice fishing experience on Boysen Reservoir recently when they found something they hadn’t seen before — a field of frost flowers covering the crystal-clear ice of the lake.
“I kept looking out at the lake and I was like, ‘That looks weird,’” Deanna told Cowboy State Daily on Tuesday. “It looked like these round things were all over. We thought it was snow, then once we got out of the truck, these things were all over the ice.”
The crystal-clear ice was covered with clusters of large, delicate ice crystals. It was like a vast expanse of white sagebrush stretching as far as the eye could see.
“Our grandson tried to pick some up for me,” Deanna said. “He said, ‘I want to give (Grandma) a rose.’ So, he would bend over and try to pick them up off the ice, and they would just crumble apart.”
The Reishs were surrounded by delicate frost flowers for the entire fishing trip. Soon after, they were gone.
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