5/12/14 – The ice is so soft now that it doesn’t make sense to drill a hole. We’ll just be posting pictures from here on out. After two days of very warm and pleasant weather, it has turned cooler, but very windy and rainy.

The water is even higher than normal for this time of year. Usually, the high water peak is a day or two after the ice goes out.

Jessica inspects a chunk of honeycombed ice. Although we often think she can walk on water, she is actually standing on the canoe landing.
Here is an interesting bit of history from the Duluth News Tribune with two Sawbill connections.
The SAGE building was built in 1956. Frank and Mary Alice Hansen, Sawbill Canoe Outfitters founders, bought some of the used cement form lumber from the SAGE project and used it to build their first three buildings, including the core of the current store building.
Ray Klosowski, who is featured in the article, is a frequent Sawbill canoeist. – Bill