It's one thing to hike the rather exposed Eagle Creek Trail No. 440 in good weather, but it is even more exciting in severe winter weather. Lucky for me that I found these icicles only about 200 yards up the trail from the parking area. Seriously, the trail was covered with ice on this day in the mid 1990's, and, since I didn't have crampons, I took a few shots and headed back to the car.
These icicles were one to two inches in diameter and up to a couple of feet long. The weather was just beginning to warm after a hard, long cold spell and meltwater was etching interesting patterns in the surface of the ice.
