The thaw may not have taken much of the lake ice, but the snow around the area has been mostly melted. Judging from the damage to West Shore Drive, it was quite a melt.
Timber Shores' fishing boats for cabins 1, 2, and 3 made it through the Winter in what's left of one of the lake's oldest cabin remnants.
Two feet is more than enough ice on which to park a few lawn chairs, two glasses, and a bottle of wine while watching Hale-Bopp set in the Northwest. The days are getting warmer, but the lake ice is almost certain to be around until May. We'll be back in two weeks to not swim, not ski, not fish and not be bothered by all that not. The lake is too wonderful to be bothered by anything except perhaps leaving it to go back to work.
-Nemo walked for a few hundred feet before the cans fell off.
