Author Archives: Lloyd Roberts

All snow long gone. Lovely grade 10 ice in northern bay at Lloyd’s Heron beach, fine skating. However the cake is not done yet, large holes in northern half and more apparent open water at south end. The good skating … Continue reading →

Dammy cam shows broad streaks of slush in yesterday’s 3-4 inches of heavy snow on new one night ice, maybe an inch. Chicky was similar until fog/drizzle closed in so I can’t take a “Chicky cam” from the breakfast table. … Continue reading →

New ice skim at beach early morning. Not even “kitty ice” but ice finally. 20 F this Friday AM to continue through Sunday but with wind day and night making an ice seizure unlikely. However this may cool water and … Continue reading →

20 F. this AM, 5/16 in. of ice in grass at lake edge with water underneath at 36 F. A short canoe ride out to deeper water found 40 F. at hockey stick depth, this is seasonally appropriate. In the … Continue reading →

We had a good turnout of 20 members from newbies just about to build to our senior member Fred Wardwell who says he has been iceboating for 89 years starting as a small child. New member Ryan Haskell and his … Continue reading →