Ice Out - Open Water

My Mommy say's I have been on thin ice my whole life

Our ice in was real late this year to the point where the snomo trails weren't even marked/opened across the lakes until the second week of January. It really hurt the business's that depend so much on the sport. The cold snap that did freeze them up opening up the trails did produce plenty of ice except for the bays that have some snow/slush cover insulating the cold. I've heard reports of ice thickness varying from well over 14" to under 8". I don't feel we'll see a total ice out until the 1st of April.

we had 14" two weeks ago. looks like we may be able to ski this weekend......but I doubt we do!

Yea when the snow gets this deep the big lug is a must



Here's my current sled its a Skidoo Backcountry X 800 E-tec on a 137 x 1.75 track. Its for sale by the way

Nice ride! Best of all worlds right there, nice track length to bridge the bumps and enough to float on the powder and a good size lug to drive you through the deep stuff, and that E-tec engine is snappy, quick and long on the power curve. Jealous - really missed riding this year, ahhh this too shall pass.

Gary,
It looks pretty quiet on the river. Great time of the year for a cruise.

Paul - what you going to order???

That BLOOOOOWWWSSSSSSS!!!!

Winter snow storm up to 3 feet. I was just getting use to the warming weather. My Daughter went on a field trip today, the bus had to stop to put chains on, they were over 4 hours late due to the snow. The winter skis are coming back out.

gun-driver wrote: Mont Valin Quebec

Even better, saw the power line and that reminded me the top of the hill on "the shortcut" on trail #2.

I'm traveling the last week of the month. Thanks for the offer hopefully I can fit a run in? Is that water always on the cold side?

Paul I got to go sledding in the mountains this winter wow that was fun now I have a sled added to the list.

Way to early for boats still having to much fun doing this...

Been offered to ski definitely need a suit, but spring snow skiing is in its prime. One of these days I'm going snow skiing in the morning and water in the afternoon !

Rough here today too. Only supposed to hit 78!

We had our coldest February on record this year, lake ice was 22"-24" range, last year ice was 36".

Historically over the past 17 years I have been here, lake opens up on St Patty's Day +/- a couple days.

Joe, Built 100' of dock last year, going to build another (8) 10' sections to enlarge the platform and also get out a little deeper. Will update my dock build thread as I get rolling.

Larry, HW is only about 25 mins away now and even when he did help, ya know kids these days, it felt like I was carrying both sides from one end anyways