Amazing that it is time to start an ice-out thread... but it is happening. The Ice-Out 2006 page is up at
www.rattlesnakecam.com/iceout.htm. View the webcams around the lake to watch it happen.
The Ice-Out Reports for Rattlesnake Island are that the ice rifts are showing areas of open water, The open water by Diamond Island is going much further across the broads, the Weirs open hole is extending further and further... all eroded by high winds. The wind is blowing the water under the ice creating storm surges against the breakwaters on the North west side of Rattlesnake.
A snowmobile hit open water last night at the end of Minge Cove... pictures of the rescue later. The driver swam to safety.
Yesterday was the first time I went snowmobiling and today will probably the the last for this year... It is getting unsafe in a lot of places around this end of the lake.
Please add your observations here link to pictures... It could be an early early ice out.
IG
