Joes pond 12/17

[Evan Perkins]

After deliveries this morning, I skated Joe's pond with a wonderful skim of water over it. Outstanding reflections. The black ice pools I had discovered there last Friday were well over 3 inches thick today and the gray ice was still hard enough to skate on but I suspect it will continue to soften as the water drains off. There were some very small drain holes just starting in some of the black ice as is typical of ice that is sub 4 " drain holes tend to form in a pretty short period of time usually under 24 hours above freezing in my experience. I'm really not sure what the quality would be tomorrow but if anybody wanted to venture out, I would definitely be very cautious and check the quality of the ice not just the thickness. As long as the water stays on top of the ice there tends to be very little degradation, but as I said, tiny drain holes were starting to form, and there's a good chance that water will be off the ice by the morning.

[Anne Lloyd]

That to pic is very cool! And what a great job with the deer. You had yourself a day!

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[Ken Stowe]

Thank you Evan. Still delightfully good skating at 4:00 PM today on the 3rd pond…the entire expanse that I tried. Your posting and encouragement from Martin who was just getting off the ice when I arrived, made my day. The ice spoke to me and said “just relax and go”. I did. 

The channels between ponds 1 and 2…and 2 and 3 are open water. Easily spotted and avoided.