Bailey Range Traverse,  Olympic National Park,  Jul 26, 2007 - Aug 1, 2007     page 47 / 97

A light breeze pushed more fog into the area, and made the temperature drop. As the evening progressed, we found ourselves getting cold, so we crawled into our sleeping bags earlier than usual. The tent seemed bright inside when I awoke the next morning. The tent rain fly blocked my view outside, though, so I couldn't tell what the weather was like until I opened the fly door. I unzipped the fly and found that the fog had cleared. There staring me in the face was the western portion of Mt. Pulitzer against a backdrop of clear blue sky. The air was cold. I looked at the lake and found it had completely iced over. Our water bottles had no ice within them, though. I quickly dressed in warm clothes, grabbed my camera and jumped into my boots. It was time to explore, for Tom would not be awake for another hour or two! The lake surface was covered with intricate designs from the ice formation. Later, when I retrieved some water from the lake, I found the ice to be about an eighth of an inch thick, like thin glass.