LoL the jump scare I had when the tiny mouse jumped out made me giggle. Those crystals are gorgeous!

I was not expecting the mouse, jolted me awake from the peaceful snow

The mouse jumpscare 😂

Hey Cody! This is typically called hoar frost, and is one of the main causes of avalanches when snow packs on top of hoar frost.

I love the random short videos explaining natural phenomena you encounter, it's super interesting! I would love if this were to become a regular series, you don't even have to waste time editing it.

The small joys in life, snow crystals, a jumping mouse, and a Cody quick vid sharing them! 💚❄️✌️😎

0:38 one might even say, the light is bouncing off in a SPECULAR fashion!

Scared me to bits 😂

A natural lab experiment that most of us would have not seen and Cody was luckly about and took the time to share and explain to us how it happened. Thank you Cody, keep crunching on :)

I’ve seen snow like this a couple times, but never with such large crystals. Absolutely stunning!

That's pretty wild. Never seen snow like that before

The huge aspect of the glittery snow is the stereography. One eye sees totally different sparkles than the other one which confuses our brains a lot. That's why it's so pretty.

I have never seen such beautiful snow! The long needle-like crystals are amazing!

Thank you for showing this, cody. I live in a tropical country and ive never seen snow in real life and had no ideia this could happen.

When awkward is part of your brand. 😉 Cody is great, I can always count on him for a smile.

You know it's freaking cold when the snow behaves like sand

As always. Thanks for sharing Cody!

That was a really concise, straight forward explanation of the phenomenon. Another great job, Cody! Thank you!

Never expected a jump scare in your videos. 2 videos in a day is fantastic!

That looks amazing, I used to have this one steep hillside in my yard that would grow these until they conglomerated into a delicate crust layer and I never really thought about why it would form but I'd almost always break off a piece and move it around in the sunlight. I'm not sure I ever would've recalled that memory without this video, thank you Cody and thanks for explaining the phenomenon too

Man I jumped so hard when the mouse came out! Keep up the good work Cody, love seeing these new videos!

Thanks for the heart attack at the end there, Cody! 🤣

your sense of wonder and amazement is as pure as the recryst'd snow💙

You have such a good science eye Cody, I love these random vignettes you make.

Incredible! Thanks for sharing, Cody!

ICE FEATHERS! ..... AHHHHHH!!!! Jump scare! That mouse... uh boy. :) I caught an occasional glint of what you were speaking of so I am CERTAIN that in person it must be a fabulous sight. Peaceful Skies.

I really appreciate this. Snow where I am, has always been deposited from above. I had never dreamt that snow could happen a different way.

What a world we live in! Thank you for sharing and teaching us.

mmmm. The crunch on that snow sounds so good.

Gorgeous!

Haha, the most adorable jump scare ever.

Mouse: "It's a life or death situation, I must make my escape" Cody: "Look at these crystals though"

Thank you. I learned something. So funny to be around smart people

Awesome insight and explanation, thank you!

Beautiful.

very cool, I have never seen snow form like that. I appreciate the lesson, and the jump scare was fun.

Fascinating and beautiful at the same time... so cool. (Literally)

It's like grass snow. I bet it looked amazing in person!

Cody, you're just a big smart kid and it warms my heart

always fun to see the tiny things around Chicken Base!

Thank you for explaining something I've always wondered about but thought was too complicated to research.

That's beautiful, thanks Cody

Awesome always a great day when Cody posts videos love watching brother glad you are doing good thanks for sharing

Thanks for the explanation on how that forms. That's some cool stuff I can share with my kids and grandkids. Also, most epic jump scare. Lol.

I've seen these long growths on tree limbs/twigs when conditions are right... but never "reflected" on it also growing on snow. Nice!

It is always amazing to see the different types of snow in Utah. Thanks for sharing.

Thank you for the video ! ☺♥

This reminds me of a vacation I went on in my youth. We stopped by Arches National Park in the early spring. Similar structures had formed on the patches of snow making the whole landscape shimmer and sparkle as we hiked around the reddish brown sandstone.

It looks like brush strokes in a painting. No joke that is really cool.

That's really neat. I've seen something sorta similar on the frozen lake next to our town, while the ice was still fresh and smooth and hadn't been covered by snow. But instead of tiny grass-like structures, it formed fewer but much much larger flower-like structures. It might have been just due to freezing fog instead of this sublimation process (or maybe it was the ice sublimating in the sun), but it was also fascinating.

Wow!!!! Did not know and absolutely love this info!!! Makes perfect sense 😊

I didn't know snow could do that. I love the way it looks.❤

That looks incredible!

I love these videos. Learning something I’ve always kinda wondered: why some snow is like that. Thanks Cody!

Reminds me of seeing needle ice when hiking. Warm water in the ground causes capillary action and the cold air freezes the water as it comes out of the ground leaving ice needles!

I've seen this effect here in the UK when we had a cold blast about 15 or so years ago (the one that made "super-efficient" condensing boilers stop working, cos the externally-routed condensate pipes froze solid!), I went out on a walk in the cold weather and noted a lot of the untouched laying snow had grown these long crystals like this, it was quite an interesting sight to see, never knew how it formed, but now I do... :D

It looks like glass grass. It's beautiful.

Huh. I never knew I needed to know this. Thanks, Cody!

These formations are called "Penitentes" and are named after a Catholic tradition where men dress in white costumes and pointy hats as part of a ceremony of penance. I believe they still carry the tradition in the Philippines.

Very cool video. Beautiful affect that leads to all sorts of interesting questions

This is one of my favorite types of snow/frost. It doesn't happen often where I live but it's cool! Didn't know that was how it formed :)

Amazing and clear explanation!

Where I live we get plenty of snow and rarely hoar frost, but I've never seen snow turn into hoar frost before

We get that here, too. We also get morning dew condensing like that onto frozen cobwebs.

Very cool. Thank you Cody!

Cool things on our Earth! One can only imagine what the fine details are on the surfaces of ice moons like Enceladus or Europa.

It's beautiful! Never seen that. And thanks for the explanation!

That mouse scared the hell out of me 😂😂

Cheers from down under! Would like to feel and experience snow sometime. Doesn’t snow often in Australia

Beautiful stuff

All snow looks alien to me where I live, but that definitely looks different than any snow I've seen on a TV screen! Looks like frozen grass, except way cooler

Super cool (pun intended) how you were able to use the shadow of the tree to help confirm the phenomena! Also, that mouse scared the shit out of me.

I've never seen this despite living in cold, cold Canada. I've seen something similar after foggy nights when the frost falls off the trees, but never crystals standing up like that!

That mouse jumpscare out of nowhere!

Like a small forest of snow trees! You should build an earth ship like home base at chickenhole, that be too sick! Love you Cody

Really cool! I had no idea that sublimating ice/snow can cause this. Altough I'm quite familar with sublimation. For example thin layers of ice and snow on streets often tend to vanish over time (especially if it's sunny and windy) - even if the temperature never goes above freezing. It never melts and makes the street wet, but just vanishes and leave the asphalt dry (which is often nice as it also means the friction driving or walking on it will be pretty like summer on the dried up parts). Also if food is forgotten in the freezer for too long in a plastic bag (for example bread). It dries out while much of the water vapour never leave the bag either - the vapour condensate again and build a layer of frost on the inside of the bag.

Reminds me of when i had freezing fog at my place when there was already snow on the ground. Absolutely massive crystals like that

Awesome video Cody! This was so incredible

This is super interesting!!! I've neve see this phenomenon!!!!

That's amazing! Never seen that in the UK

The long tube/spike snow is always fun, gives the landscape a unique texture.

It's like an inverted ice sickle. Neat!

snow grass good addition to my something i'd like to see in person bucket list

I had loads of this at mine too, amazing stuff

Very interesting facts. Kind of reminds me of how rock formations form in a cave. Just a little bit different when you mentioned how the water read deposits on the Crystal and it just keeps getting longer and longer that's what came in my mind.

So relaxing.... AHHH! 🐭

Looks amazing, Cody. We had 35C here today. Thanks for sharing.

Never seen that…Very cool!! The mouse got me too! lol

It doesn't get nearly cold enough for anything like that to happen here, we barely get a couple days of snow as it is, but this is super cool to see! Also mouse jumpscare AAAAAH!!!!!

Pretty cool! I've missed your videos!

I've lived all my life in Canada and I've never seen snow do that before! Probably because we don't tend to get just a little bit of snow very often... It usually comes in snowstorms that lay it pretty thick.

Glad to see Cody using gloves here. Snow is dangerous stuff.

All the cool stuff in the desert! It happens in Wyoming often.

very cool cody,thanks for the video

Wow really pretty, after it snows do you just need bright sun and low ambient temp for this?

I see this in my freezer. I've seen it in winter time on a small scale, but never like this! And also didn't know it was because of the subimation happening in the ground. I always thought it was just the regular moisture in the air. Thanks for sharing!

That is so cool! I had no idea snow could do this.

It looks almost like a drone shot of conifer forest from above, Amazing!

lol the youtube compression hates your glittery snow... What a fascinating and complex mechanism you've demystified here! Us Floridians can only stare in wonder at our screens thinking 40F is so freakin cold, it's gotta be just a few degrees from absolute zero, right!? lol

That looks great...