hoar frost?

[krusher167]

I've only seen it like twice in my life en masse, and the last time was on a snowmobiling trip where every tree had it, it was so cool.  Since then ive been thinking of a way to replicat it, was just thinking if anyone new of a good way to, it would make a killer habitat for a squirrel or bird...

[M.T.]

I live in Michigan and I can honestly say that I experience that beautiful frost at least twice a month in the dead of the winter. I have yet to try to duplicate the look  because I really believe it would be impossible. However, it makes for the most stunning photographs. There is no better photo op than a sunrise surounded by hoar  frost! Absolutely stunning!

[krusher167]

Though i live in WI, i also live a mile from lake michigan, which can be kinda screwy with our weather, so we hardly ever get it... ive seen it once in my backyard and then again up in the hayward area of WI, where they get it more often i would assume...

[George Roof]

To do it right you'd have to use a technique similar to the artificial velvet.  Flock would have to be electromagnetically altered to stand "on end" to give you that effect.

[M.T.]

George is right, it would definately take some special doing to pull it off, however, if you could, it would be amazing! By the way, I live in mid Michigan, and the conditions for that frost are quite often. I'm between the two lakes, so we are usually dryer than the lakeside towns, and it will usually be somewhat colder. Like I said before though, that type of frost is the most amazing photo opportunity that you could ever have!

[George Roof]

Do you cold weather guys know what pogonip is?  I've seen it in West Virgina a few times  and in the Idaho Bitterroot but few other places.

[krusher167]

ive never seen it...but then again whenever i've been in like negative 30 or more its been pretty clear and dry... not the right conditions

[roostinridge]

You should expierience the pheasant pens in Mn. when there is a heavy frost.  Really quite a site to see.

[M.T.]

Hey George, I see that type of frost quite often here in Michigan too. The really cool thing about it is that where I live, there is an area about two square miles that continually has that ice fog. It is so beautiful. The weird thing about it is that just down the road a ways, you would never see it. Some mornings as the fog rolls through, it just keeps laying it on thicker and thicker, you can actually watch it get thicker.

[George Roof]

My first experience of it came in WV.  It was a bluebird morning sunrise when the fog moved in from the west.  As it passed me, it was such a visual effect I forgot I was hunting.  There were billions of tiny diamonds falling from the sky as the ice particles danced in the sunlight.  I know I'll never forget it.