Congratulations to Ryan Haskell, Guy Pollyplank, Ben Fuller and Ted Amaral for being quick off the line identifying Plymouth Pond. Just for the fun of it, and so maybe you can find your way back to the pits someday, here’s another one.
Hint: you can see the pit area.
Lee Spiller was quick to identify the photo in the last post as Lake Winnipesaukee, looking south to Rattlesnake Island from Ellacoya State Park. It helps that he was there that day!
How about this one?
Hint: we’ll be there soon.
Some weather has come and gone in the past few days, but the plate is intact and as nice as ever. The larger Lac Abenakis is now frozen. Denis sends this report:
I just made the trip to Ste-Aurelie. Lac Joli is still very good as the light snow is blown out of the surface.
Lac Anenakis is all locked, but the snow is not blown out as much as Lac Joli, but still very sailable. I walked on it and measured 4″ of black ice, but in the middle, there was a large area a bit darker, and I measured 2″ only. So I think it will be sailable in a couple of days, but right now, it would have to be inspected more carefully.
Anyone eager to go sailing in the next few days should contact Denis at <dguertin313>. Friends don’t let friends sail alone! Yours truly needs to go south for a week, but will be back for more asap!
No, this is not Lac Joli! Who can identify the location?
Not obligated to discuss politics today with ornery relatives, our Canadian friends continue to slice the ice.
Looks like next week will offer another round, after some flurries over the weekend.
Our namesake lake is cooling at last. Water temp. Thanksgiving Eve is 39 F., air temp 40. 40 F. is the magic number when the water is heaviest and goes to the bottom of the lake in the “fall overturn”. Water colder than 40 stays on top until it gets to 32 F. and freezes, that is why the ice is on the top where we can play on it. This lake usually freezes around the last week of December, these days is is likely to be later by a week or so. I recall that the “heat of fusion”, think freezion, is something like 325 calories of heat that have to be removed from each cc. of water to get to ice. It only takes 1 calorie to cool a cc. of water a degree C., then a lot more to solidify it at 32 F. or 0 C. The “calories” you eat or expend on a gym machine are actually kilo calories, 1000 real calories. Our lake temperatures are not far from the ocean temperatures reported by ocean buoys in NOAA weather reports this time of year. We will have ice sooner or later. A small pond just West of Chicky had skimmed over yesterday and there were several geese standing on the ice with little piles of droppings under their tails, not playing, just relaxing safe from foxes and coyotes.
Lloyd
