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Steve Lamb reports that Norton Reservoir and a few other local ponds have an inch and a half of black ice. He anticipates they will be worth investigating this weekend. Call him for more details. Lee Spiller ventured out on … Continue reading →

The ice at the Raymond launch is thick, covered in snow, and extends out a couple of hundred feet. Just as it was getting light I could make out sea smoke in the near distance and assumed it was open … Continue reading →

So goes iceboating? We all are well aware that the CIBC Ice Index has taken quite a hit this past quarter but were unaware that it tracked the Dow and the price of oil so accurately. And like all the … Continue reading →

On very short notice we called sailing ON for the weekend at The Birches. There had been all kinds of warming, cooling and pending snow. A major blizzard was about to dominate the entire east coast. Weather radar indicated Rockwood … Continue reading →

The nice lady at the Birches front desk says that there is only a dusting of snow in Rockwood, and radar indicates that that precipitation is just about to pass on by. What has fallen on the lake is wet … Continue reading →