Ice In

[John Mercier]

That is something you will need to argue with Emerson.
Tradition is that when he flies over and cannot see open water... he declares Ice In.

[tis]

Originally Posted by John Mercier

That is something you will need to argue with Emerson.
Tradition is that when he flies over and cannot see open water... he declares Ice In.

Tradition now but not when I was a kid.

[codeman671]

Originally Posted by John Mercier

That is something you will need to argue with Emerson.
Tradition is that when he flies over and cannot see open water... he declares Ice In.

I'm with you on this one. I see no problem with "ice-in" being when the lake is completely iced over. Of course there will always be a spot, such as the Weirs channel, that typically never freezes but it is what it is.

Every year I say the same thing, ice-out to me personally is when I can pick my boat up in the Weirs channel, access Glendale, Gilford Yacht Club and Mark/Bear Island. Those are my ports.

[ishoot308]

Originally Posted by codeman671

I'm with you on this one. I see no problem with "ice-in" being when the lake is completely iced over. Of course there will always be a spot, such as the Weirs channel, that typically never freezes but it is what it is.

Every year I say the same thing, ice-out to me personally is when I can pick my boat up in the Weirs channel, access Glendale, Gilford Yacht Club and Mark/Bear Island. Those are my ports.

I agree! I like it the way it is...Ice in is usually telling islanders it won't be long before you can walk out to your camps to check on things. It's also telling ice fishermen and other outdoor sports enthusiast won't be long before you can enjoy the hard water! Of course for safety reasons, you always check the ice yourself before venturing out! Yes Emerson sometimes has it wrong but for the most part he does a great job and does not charge for his services and like Steve said above, it's all in fun and tradition.

Ice out is when the mount can safely make her ports and the rest of the lake is usually ice free. I like that! I can usually easily make it to my camp on Welch by boat at least a week before official ice out is declared...I like that too!!

Dan

[John Mercier]

Emerson didn't even do it when I was a kid...

But it is now so embedded that even national news media picks up on it.

[chachee52]

Emerson didn't need to call Ice In in the past because it ALWAYS froze by the beginning of Jan, sometimes earlier.
Just saying

[tis]

Originally Posted by chachee52

Emerson didn't need to call Ice In in the past because it ALWAYS froze by the beginning of Jan, sometimes earlier.
Just saying

It usually was around the third week of Jan before the broads were all frozen in.

[C-Bass]

Looks like the lake is iced back in again...

[geordie]

First reason to stick with the current method is consistency. If you change how you measure ice in and out then you can't compare dates anymore. Second is that this is simple, ice in is when the whole lake is covered, ice out is when all the ports are free. It's easy to check both. If you made ice-in when the ports are iced then you could get ice-in from a cold snap and then ice-out the next day when a warm wind turns up. The events that bracket the iced in period have to be well separated. There needs to be hysteresis.

[chachee52]

Originally Posted by tis

It usually was around the third week of Jan before the broads were all frozen in.

When I was a kid, I was out snowmobiling across the broads by the 2nd/3rd week of Jan, usually ice skating off the beach New Years-ish. It's been later and later each year until we finally got rid of the snowmobiles mid 90s because we didn't use them enough because the ice was in later and less snow.