Winter, sun and snow: is there ice on the Weissensee yet?
The mountain lake in Carinthia looks fantastic, but is there ice on the Weissensee yet? In theory the ice should already have started forming. In practice it works out differently.
There does seem to be a pattern in when the ice starts to grow. What was that theory again? The lake fairly often starts freezing around 25 November. Sometimes punctually.
That day is also dedicated to Kathrein, a saint. “Zu Kathrein friert der See zu”, as the saying goes. On that basis there ought to be at least a thin layer of ice visible by now. Unfortunately there is not.
No ice on the Weissensee yet
“Winter, sun and snow”, writes Weissensee News about the situation there. “Now all that is missing is the ice”, the regional news platform says on social channels. And yet the picture looks positive.
- “Last night it was very cold, at -9 degrees”, we read. That is good news. The cold is in the air and more cold nights are on the way. After that things can move quickly at this mountain lake.
Before you know it we can skate again in the Spielplatz der Natur, as the area is known. A fair nickname when you look at the unspoilt nature. What a prospect.
A long lake with its tours
De Weissensee lies at 930 metres and is almost 12 kilometres long. It is a long, narrow lake, as the width is some 900 metres. All of it ringed by mountains.
Every year thousands of recreational skaters came to the Weissensee for the Alternative Dutch 11-City Tour. In recent years, 2021 and 2022, corona put a spoke in the skating wheel.
This coming January, in 2023, the organisation hopes to resume the programme. Entries have been open since last summer. Unusual entry conditions apply.
On our website you will not miss anything about the current ice thickness. We keep you up to date on new developments, centimetre by centimetre, as it were.
The theory of how the ice forms
The 2023 programme
Entering
Unusual entry conditions
Photo above the blog: Weissensee News
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