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Recent Examples of frostworkWind Cave National Park features delicate boxwork along its ceilings, along with frostwork and cave popcorn.—Simon Peter Groebner, Star Tribune, 23 July 2021
Waddington is notorious for its fickle weather—the peak is regularly hit by storms off the Pacific Ocean that freeze the summit in rime ice.
Corbin Reiff,
Outside Online,
22 Oct. 2024
The weather briefing included information about moderate icing between Carrizo Springs and Bridgeport and light rime ice between 4,000 and 6,000 feet in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, according to the report.
Harriet Ramos,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
31 Jan. 2024
From a reading delivered in November in Richmond, Virginia.
e began to figure it out on day eleven or twelve of the seven-day trip, the slate and obsidian waves rolling under our stern, the crispy hoarfrost of whitecap foam seeding in our beards, the wind spitting ice in our eyes.
Mark Richard,
Harper's Magazine,
2 Jan. 2025
Nearby, hoarfrost shimmered on hemlock branches, a bear cub peered out from a hole in the snow, and a sudden, terrifying silence echoed in the ears of the man’s ski partners.
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