Winter's here - Event Date: 26 Dec 2017

Leo,  We are finally getting some of your 'global warming' in northern Michigan.  -17 F this morning, a bit on the brisk side, fortunately minimal wind.  Even our big inland lake across the street, Torch Lake is beginning to show signs of freezing over at the north end.  It doesn't happen too often as it is nearly 20 miles long and is 2.5 miles wide at its widest point and averages 250' depth down the middle.  That takes a lot of cold water to freeze over, probably a lot of fish down there too to escape the cold weather up near the surface.

The coastline of mass has ice. Gotta be pretty freakin cold to freeze the ocean. Our forecast is for -25 wind chills for the next day or so. A high of about 3 i think they said. On a positive note, I'm working on booking a few sites for the fourth of july week 

Originally posted by Leo B We have people driving trucks and cars on the ponds and lakes up here. I will bring my snow machine on the ice but not the van or truck.

There were a couple of big lakes that they would plow a road across in winter for a shortcut. Everyone drove on that. Not too big a deal when the ice is > 3' thick.

Originally posted by mcarter I used to do tech rep work at Camp Ripley, in the 80s the NGB folks took me ice fishing near Brainerd, MN. First and last time I went, but a blast. I was amazed how deep the snow was and the cold.

Driven by (through?) Camp Ripley hundreds of times going between Brainerd & Minneapolis. We could hear the "big guns" on the Ripley firing range from the north end of Gull Lake (at least 50 miles north of Camp Ripley IIRC). We would listen and try to discern whether it was Ripley or thunder. Wasn't always clear.