3/21/10 – The return to cooler weather allowed me to get out on Sawbill Lake yesterday for some rare spring ice skating. It was mostly really bumpy and difficult except out in the middle where there were large swatches of smooth, black ice. – Bill

Skating north in the BWCA Wilderness on Sawbill Lake.

Roy and Phoebe enjoy running into the wind.

Ice is a mysterious, complicated and intriguing compound.

Footprints in the snow from much earlier in the season are preserved in solid ice.