Rocky Reef Report/Ice conditions

[rockman]

The ice conditions are at 11 to 12 inches of pretty consistent ice as of this morning. There were a couple of spots that were at 9 inches where there were open pockets of water when the ice blew back in a week and a half ago. I am hoping to be plowing a road out later this week. The usual crack that we get when it gets really cold and is just out from the shoreline opened up yesterday and was bleeding water under the snow. This morning it was frozen over, but there is still a crack underneath it is just not heel in the crack.

It should heel over in the next few days. We will still only be allowing snowmobiles and 4 wheelers this weekend. We will still definitely be out earlier than last year with the ice getting thicker by the day. By next week we should be sitting with 14 inches of ice if the weather stays below zero over the next 4 nights. There is only 3 to 4 inches of snow on the lake which is a good thing with what we saw the cities got. Most of the snow that fell up here, ended up in my yard it seems like with the huge drifts that we ended up with. The wind blew like freaking crazy all day Friday up to 40 mph; at times you could not see the cabins next door.

We had 5ft and 6ft deep drifts in the driveway and around the cabins. There were big drifts in some spots and then in other spots there was no snow at all, crazy man. It took over 5 hrs with Jonathan in the skid loader and I was in the plow truck to get it moved around. There are already huge piles of snow in the yard that usually are this high at the end of the year the past 3 years or so. The drifts were as hard a rock when we started to get into it, until we got some of it broken up. Jonathan would break them up and I would push them over. It was a chilly ride in the skid loader for Jon boy, but he did a fantastic job as usual.

Then I went to move the Trail Blazer and I opened the door and the whole inside was like filled with snow. Evidently someone didn’t close the back window at sometime and it was only cracked open a half an inch, but that was enough. It blow snow in like made, so I am thinking how am I going to get this snow out of the car without having it get everything soaked inside. So, I went to the shed, I fired up the leaf blower and I blew it out of the car in about 15 minutes. Thankfully it was supper cold and windy, so it blew right out and everything was good to go, with no mo snow! So that is what is up at the Rock.

Get your gear ready, tell the wife that it is that time of year again and we will see you this weekend.

Be safe

We will see ya

When we see ya

The Rockman