Ice Road Conditions

The colder weather had certainly helped the ice road conditions. As of today, Leonard is out widening the road and things are looking good. Should be attempting to put driveways in today. I was out yesterday to check my camp. Not much snow, lots of ice fisherman/shacks out there already.

Ice conditions as of yesterday, were not as good as we would like them when driving on the ice road. Leonard was out and did push a road in, but only 10-10.5 inches of ice. He is not recommending driving on it yet, and is hoping it will tighten up in the next couple of days as the temperature will be down a bit. Drive at your own risk if need be. There are vehicles out there, but 12 inches would be better.

Ice Update

Brought our truck out to the Island today,There are no roads yet,just snowmobile and Quad tracks(and not too many of them).If you plan on venturing out anytime soon check ice thickness often and be careful.

First Town Trip

Made the first trip into town by snowmobile on 16th.Travelling by sled is awesome,the ice is smooth and with 1" snowcover makes for a nice ride. The only pressure ridge between here and Town was on the North side of Dorian Marsh and at present is not very big.Terry Lunny took his vehicle to Scotty's yesterday.If your travelling with quad or snowmachine "come on down" BUT leave the trucks on main land.

ice thickness

Beautiful bright day with a high of -23c. Was out on sled this afternoon checking conditions.The thinest ice was Andrew Bay @ 6" there was 7" over @ S.E.area of Queer Island.We have 8" @ our landing French Narrows.The problem area is that Bigstone Bay only froze on 12th.Will be a couple more days before heading to our truck @ Bare Point.Do not recommend anyone to venture out on ice yet.

Hey Rick.....

Leonard was saying that there is 2 inches of ice north of Rocky Narrows as of yesterday. Bigstone has now froze over, so on our way to making good ice.

Ice Update

This past week has been awesome weather for making ice.Our temps have been a little warmer than Wpg's, but we caught up this morning with a -26c. On the 10th I checked ice thickness At our landing and had 5.5" more than enough for a snowmobile BUT this year the lake stayed open in sections. I'm only guessing but I think these sections may only have 2-3" and I'm not about to venture out to check!
I have heard people are on sleds in Welcome channel and 4" ice @ Wolf Island on Manitou side.After this weekend I will take out the snowmobile and start checking ice thickness in our area.

The last of the open water froze over today-ice for as far as we can see all directions, -20's all week-good weather for making ice.

were back @ lake

Arrived home 1pm this afternoon. No ice from Bare Point to the Hade's. Then we pushed ice from the Red Bouy south to Hall's Gate. No more ice till we passed the "Outfitters Island" then it was ice all the way to our dock. The ice was 3/4" thick and we had a heavy load so it was easy going. The picture was taken in the Hades,solid ice to South. The picture of our path is looking North-Bare point to left,Northern Harbor to right. Current temp-11,light flurries and a low of-20.