It is a cold winter on Glassy Mountain. We decided to hike up to a nearby waterfall to see how the many days of teen temperatures had affected the streams. There were some great ice formations on the waterfall. It is hard to see the scale of the ice, so my wife included me in one of the pictures. It was beautiful out, and our cat even hiked the mile or so up there with us!

Ice on a waterfall on Glassy Mountain

This picture shows me under the ice to give an idea of scale:

Sitting on the ice under the frozen waterfall

And a final picture showing our curious cat going behind the ice:

Cat exploring the icy waterfall

Duke Energy’s 1.5 million pound stator (I believe the weight includes the stator and the assembly needed to transport it) moved past Glassy Mountain on Hwy 11 around 9am this morning. From my count it has a total of 288 wheels on each of the two sections that support the stator (not counting the trucks on each end). Each wheel you see in the photo is part of a 4 wheel assembly that looks like an aircraft landing gear wheel, with 144 wheels on each side. Sorry the quality of the photo is poor but it was cloudy and dreary.

Duke Energy Stator on Hwy 11 Driving Past Glassy Mountain