Rick Jackson , Fwd: post, took the quad off ice yesterday, In Dorian there is water both sides road and you can see ripples when drove over with quad. There is no road on this side Portage!
Ice has pulled away from our landing by 4'
Had to lay down boards to get on/off ice. Should be boating May 15 ??

 Yesterday was -27 with windchill, today not much better minus 15 strong west winds. I’m taking truck off ice on April 10 . I expect the South facing side of French Narrows to be the first to become impassable, yesterday afternoon was -9 and the landing was sheltered from wind and with the mud being dragged onto ice it was getting wet. There were several large holes in road last week, which have froze solid, but will open up again, would do a lot of damage if you dropped a tire in one! road is so rough ( takes almost 1 hr to get to BarePoint ) can make better time on quad.

Late Spring

Doing a test post,still having issues and have to post under Peters Name. From our landing looking in all directions you would think it's mid-January. We still have our truck on Island, 16" snow in bush.
Checking Diary and last year I took truck off March 24 . It will be a couple weeks before I bother to post as long range forecast not very promising so doent expect much change.

Tug Channel

Al the ice road is about 5 miles from the Tug, if you want to get closer contact me at jacksonrd919@gmail.com and I will put you in touch with Bob who plow S the roads,you could hire him to get you closer,Rick

Ice roads are in

texting with Bob and he says the roads are in,a little rough with slushy detour Allens Reef.
Use caution and be safe,happy new year to all

Ice roads

Bob says they started plowing the ice road from 12 mile Portage to south end (Windigo) good ice conditions down there.
The ice between Town and 12 mile not as good, 7" in the Slush areas and  in areas where slush froze 15"
That 7" is only strong enough for small truck like Dodge Dakota, need minimum 9" for regular size 1/2 ton.
This cold snap should help build ice

Update

This was Bob's report this morning : Bigstone is open around Needle Point, with only 2-3" ice in middle. Has slushed up from 12 Mile to French Portage. The people at Windigo are traveling south to States. Nobody else moving around on ice yet.
That Colorado Low at beginning of the week dumped 30 cm over entire LOW.