It’s not often that Earthquake Lake, or Quake Lake for short, freezes over without a layer of snow on it. But conditions this early winter created this rare event. We went a long period with no snow but very cold temperatures, allowing Quake Lake to develop a layer of ice about six to eight inches thick that was mostly snow free. I read this only happens once every 25 years or so, but I don’t know how accurate that is, but it is a rare event nonetheless. Hebgen Lake, which is only a few miles away, while also frozen over, has a good layer of snow on it’s ice. In this photo, frozen bubbles are trapped below the surface among the dead trees which are remnants from the 1959 earthquake that created the lake.