ice-lines

Updated: May 17, 2025

I knew by the ice-lines that every step was now taking me nearer the shore and soon it came in sight. The head-land four or five miles back from the front, covered with spruce trees, loomed faintly but surely through the mist and light fall of snow not more than two miles away.

John Muir - Travels in Alaska

Then came the morning when, out of the monotonous cold and snow-flurries, something new appeared, a narrow white rim forming on the river margin the first ice! "Winter beginning to show his teeth," said one man, with an effort at jocosity. Day by day, nearer came the menace; narrower and swifter still ran the deep black water strip between the encroaching ice-lines.

Elizabeth Robins - The Magnetic North