no matter where you are going, waiting for perfect conditions will rarely get you there.
it was with that in mind--after friday's inches of ice pellets covered by freezing rain--that pam and i went for a skate. pam had it from linda that people were out on canaan street lake so we packed our blades and went there.
just making it from the ice rink parking lot down to the edge of the lake, all of 40 yards, maybe, was a slippery challenge. but we made it and got our blades on and pushed off. the ice was mixed, much of it bumpy or mounded up with snow, but all of it frozen and mostly skate-able. there were some long, narrow smooth sections that you could pick out for their dark blue color. we followed those around the lake. where they were longest, we turned and repeated them--multiple times in some cases.
you can see a few of those dark streaks beyond pam down in the big bay in the cardigan mtn school bay. that pan was looking south. the eastern shoreline had a wide band of really good smooth ice which we back and forth-ed for quite a while.
you can't see it on the map, but there is a small flooded cove way to the east that we love to skate into. i tried it and pam came in soon after. i took a picture of her at the far end.
more good ice along the edge took us down to the reservoir south end. on the way i spoke with a fellow walking out to drill a hole to lower a camera through. with a 360°lens he was hoping for an interesting 'under ice' view. we ran into some fairly rough ice in the reservoir so i stopped and took a pan looking north.
we headed back to the town beach, stopping to talk to two sets of fishing people on the way. taking our time, skating a few more dark lines back and forth, we got off the blades and out of our boots some two hours after getting into them.
if there is no 'wintery mix' tonight, maybe we will try goose pond out tomorrow--before the forecasted new year's eve storm comes in.
if not on a lake skating, there is plenty of other ice to go outside and play on!
it was with that in mind--after friday's inches of ice pellets covered by freezing rain--that pam and i went for a skate. pam had it from linda that people were out on canaan street lake so we packed our blades and went there.
just making it from the ice rink parking lot down to the edge of the lake, all of 40 yards, maybe, was a slippery challenge. but we made it and got our blades on and pushed off. the ice was mixed, much of it bumpy or mounded up with snow, but all of it frozen and mostly skate-able. there were some long, narrow smooth sections that you could pick out for their dark blue color. we followed those around the lake. where they were longest, we turned and repeated them--multiple times in some cases.
you can see a few of those dark streaks beyond pam down in the big bay in the cardigan mtn school bay. that pan was looking south. the eastern shoreline had a wide band of really good smooth ice which we back and forth-ed for quite a while.
you can't see it on the map, but there is a small flooded cove way to the east that we love to skate into. i tried it and pam came in soon after. i took a picture of her at the far end.
more good ice along the edge took us down to the reservoir south end. on the way i spoke with a fellow walking out to drill a hole to lower a camera through. with a 360°lens he was hoping for an interesting 'under ice' view. we ran into some fairly rough ice in the reservoir so i stopped and took a pan looking north.
we headed back to the town beach, stopping to talk to two sets of fishing people on the way. taking our time, skating a few more dark lines back and forth, we got off the blades and out of our boots some two hours after getting into them.
if there is no 'wintery mix' tonight, maybe we will try goose pond out tomorrow--before the forecasted new year's eve storm comes in.
if not on a lake skating, there is plenty of other ice to go outside and play on!
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