Waterbury Reservoir

[Chris Boone]

Hi friends,

As many others have reported, Waterbury Reservoir’s in good shape. Very consistent gray ice, ranging from very smooth to citrus peel to lightly scalloped. Some snow cover, and today, with an air temperature of 40º F when we started mid afternoon, that was mostly soft and not great to skate on / through. Occasional small areas were soft enough to slice down into with our blades, firm 1 cm slush. Once it all refreezes it should be even better.

I only did a few spot checks of ice thickness with my ice screw. It was 5 or 6” everywhere, even in the backwater coves, except at the very far upstream end, where it was 2-4” / 1-2 pokes.

The reason for sending this report, though, is to point out that there’s a large snow covered area part way upstream that’s worth pressing around. The sidewalks on both shores were reasonable today, probably will be better in colder weather, and the ice opens back up into very skateable past the snow.

We put in at the Blush Hill Boat Launch: https://goo.gl/maps/f77oD7Xnrmp16fcq9

Map attached with our track and a few notes. The snowy area is highlighted white. Circumnavigating pretty much the whole reservoir was about 14 miles.

Chris

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[Evan Perkins]

Out on Waterbury reservoir right now, it appears that all the snow has resurfaced into good Skating , ice, can skate everywhere. Only a few hours left of this but if you were close definitely worth it.

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[Dr Jo]

Thanks Ben, especially for reportng in such a timely way!  Definitely something to encourage on the list!

I arrived a little after noon and got off a little before five.  Wonderful time, such a beautiful place, had never been there before today.  Grateful to all the reporters!

Jo

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Date: 1/19/23 11:58 AM (GMT-05:00)

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Subject: Re: [vtnordicskating] Waterbury Reservoir

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From: Benjamin Coddington <bcod...@gmail.com>

Date: 1/19/23 11:58 AM (GMT-05:00)

To: Glenn <cabinb...@gmail.com>

Cc: Jamie Hess <nordi...@gmail.com>, diana hanks <cle...@yahoo.com>, Scott Simmel <scott....@gmail.com>, Dr Jo <dr...@hotmail.com>, "vtnordicskating@googlegroups com" <vtnordi...@googlegroups.com>

Subject: Re: [vtnordicskating] Waterbury Reservoir

I can report: Waterbury is very nice right now.

Ben

[Bonna Wieler]

Question from a montpelier resident-my daughter- how can Waterbury be very nice when it just snowed a foot? 

Thanks 

Bonna 

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On Jan 28, 2023, at 6:09 PM, Dr Jo <dr...@hotmail.com> wrote:

 Thanks Ben, especially for reportng in such a timely way!  Definitely something to encourage on the list!

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[Dr Jo]

So sorry to all, this email about Waterbury Reservoir was written last week (1/19), got stuck in my Outbox, then suddenly went out today. Tech failure.

[Phyl Newbeck]

I think the Waterbury Reservoir email must have gotten stuck in the ether.  If you look closely, you'll see it has a date of 1/19 before the snow.

-Phyl

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