4/29/25 – Current conditions as of 2pm: 28°F, breezy, overcast, and flat out chilly. Curious since the forecast for today predicted a high of 43° and mostly sunny. I guess it wasn’t totally wrong. Just after midnight we did reach 42° and soon after the temperature steadily dropped until it reached the low of 24° around 11am. As far as the mostly sunny part, that has not come to fruition yet…

Around noon Dan scooted the trusty Alumacraft out to drill a test hole. He found 21″ from the bottom of the ice to the top of the slush and estimated about 9″ of that was solid ice. In all yesterday we received about an inch of rain and that seems to have helped the ice along as it’s now broken away from shore which has resulted in the water rising and topping the railroad ties of the canoe landing. A key step in the transition to ice out. -Jessica