Frosty Mornings at American Fork Boat Harbor

I work for American Fork City. We have a boat harbor on Utah Lake. We leave the gates open all winter for the ice fishermen to access the lake. I drive down there a few times each winter to check out the icebergs that are driven up on the jetty or skip rocks on the ice to see how far I can get one out there (it sounds really cool on thin ice.) Once or twice a winter an inversion occurs and the air just over the lake is super cold while the mountain benches are warmer. Here are some pictures that I took this morning while down at the harbor.

8:30 am and the fog is still obscuring the sun.

The fog creates a coat of frost on the twigs of bushes and trees and continues to build each day as long as the weather doesn't get too high. This morning it was 5 to 10 degrees. It probably won't get above 25 degrees today.

You can see the tracks of the ice fishermen out across the ice. They'll disappear in the next storm. The ice here is probably 10 to 12 inches thick.

This is our "lighthouse" or marker. You can see this piece of pipe for miles out on the lake. It's about 10 feet tall and 6 feet in diameter and painted yellow. The street lamp is the light part of the lighthouse.

Very beautiful frost on barbed wire.

A few weeks ago I took a picture of this elk with my camera phone. You coudn't really see him all that well. Well, he hasn't come up to the fence since then so I can get a better photo of him. You can also see the frost on the fence and bullrush in the foreground.