Ice formation on the lakeshore of Lake Superior at Whitefish Point. I kind of did a somewhat stupid thing, crawling way out onto an ice-encrusted breakwater so I could lay down on my stomach and get a view through the opening. Not apparent from the picture, maybe, but the lake side faces of these piles would be absolutely impssible to climb, and the ice builds out out into the lake from shore, so if you fell in, you'd be in 20 feet or more of freezing-point water, with no way to climb out, and only about 5 minutes max (maybe less) to do your climbing before you die of hypthermia :-D The waves pile ice up on the shore, and then later waves erode out underneath the face of the pile. The piles are sometimes 40 feet high or more. This wasn't a very good year for the ice piles, as this was one of the bigger ones there.
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