Sunday, 9:00 AM. 19 degrees, wind N, light. Skies are partly cloudy, and the barometer predicts the same. It will be a nice day.
The ice road is beginning to show its age, particularly the approaches, which is where it usually deteriorates first, as the sun warms the shore, and the warm sand melts the near ice. It looked sloppy out there on the road yesterday as well. That did not deter the driver of a pickup truck I observed speeding directly south towards Washburn, nowhere near the ice road. A fool and his pickup truck are soon parted (if he is lucky enough to get out of it as it plunges into a hundred and sixty feet of ice water). A pickup truck through the ice is usually the first real sign of spring hereabouts.
Posts
