Plan was to snowmobile to Town this morning--the strong winds over the past 2 days blew all the snow off the ice and onto the shore. So I made the trip by quad!! the least amount of ice we came across was 6" this was in the areas that froze last.I left French Narrows and traveled West to 12 mile portage(only 1 pressure ridge and it was a long WET one). From 12 Mile traveled North to Strawberry Portage(2 pressure ridges here and again both had water either side) Once over Strawberry there was only 1 small ridge close to Rocky Narrows then good right into Bare Point.
The trip home took us over Strawberry Portage and headed straight for the Point of Queer Island-the pressure ridge in the picture was taken @ Allan's Reef looking West. This pressure ridge starts out @ South tip of Scotty's and travels through the Slate Islands past Allan's reef. and heads towards Pipestone Pt. There is another real bad ridge @ the Most NE tip of Queer,after that good travel all the way home.
Tomorrow I will go back and place Pine trees at the 2 bad ridges and attempt to flatten them out so they will freeze.
Quad travel is great-not enough snow for sliders yet-not enough ice for vehicles yet!!
If anyone is venturing out check the pressure ridges on both sides as ice is not very thick and is soft.
Stay away from Copper Island as this was one of the last areas I know of to freeze and will have only 1-2" ice??
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Thank you for keeping us informed to what is happening out there. In the old days when vehicles were used to pick up fish from commercial fisherman. The truck drivers used planks to navigate over the pressure ridges. Perhaps utilizing the metal ramps used for loading quads on to truck would work. What did it look like from east end of queer down Andrew Bay?
From Queer looking East down Andrew Bay there are no ridges.The area directly North of Bottle Bay was one of the later ones to freeze-my guess is there should be 5-6" now.
Today I plan on cutting down the 2 ridges so they may freeze-they would not support a vehicle,if we don't get some cold weather and snow protection we will be using planks to cross these 2 areas!!!
As the temps dropped last night the ice was so loud I thought we were living beside train tracks!!!
Hello Rick. Dwight and Michelle Nick here. Thanks so much for your effort in posting on your blog. We love checking out your news and pictures! If you are by our place at some point could you let us know if there is any open water? It likes to stay open near our floating docks. Perhaps this year will be better with not having much snow? We are thinking about heading out with the airboat on the 28th. Will we have to cross any ice ridges coming from Smith Camps, through the hades and then along Hay to our place (I am guessing not).
Again....thanks and Merry Christmas!
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