Ice photos on kicksled (spark) and touring skates, winter 2010-2011

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• First Ice 2010-2011, Dec 01 2010; Little Lake Coordinates: 45-00.33N 64-19.6W) Maximum ice thickness before Christmas was only 38 mm at first of month. There were several violent wind and rain storms and very mild temperatures for the rest of December
  • Dec 1; 38 mm ice, just barely enough to stand on
• Jan 23 2011, Cranberry Lake (44.664,-63.771), Five Island lake (44.6740,-63.8083) Timberlea, west of Halifax, about 30 km kicksledding and skating on the lakes plus the conncting rail-trail (BLT)
  • Nice ice on Five Island Lake
  • Sunset on Cranberry Lake
  • Map with GPS track
• Jan 25 on Hubley Big Lake (44.6586,-63.8322) about 25 km skating and kicksledding
  • Nice Ice on Hubley Big Lake
  • Beaver has popsicles in fridge!
  • Map with GPS track
• Jan 30 on Porters Lake , (44.7043,-63.2972) about 25 km kicksledding and skating
  • Tour track on map , black areas are open water
  • nice ice on Porters Lake , just a dusting of snow, someone skated here before us
  • Ice along shore , caused by wave action when there was open water earlier in winter
• Feb 24 2011; Grand Lake (44.4952,-63.6271), Ragged Lake (44.4963,-63.6478) near Sambro
  • Route map
  • Grand Lake
  • Ragged Lake boulder
• Mar 4-6 2011, Lakes near Bridgewater
  • 44 km Route on Big Mushamush, Mar 4 2011 (44.4700,-64.5245)
  • Mushamush L kicksled
  • Mushamush L skate
  • Mushamush L kickled and ice-yacht
  • sunset on Mushamush ice
  • sunset (2) on Mushamush (photo by L.J. Butters)
  • Route on Minamkeak (24 km), Crooked Lakes (8 km) Mar 5 (44.2830983 ,-64.6425214)
  • Minamkeak ice
  • Pressure ridge on Minamkeak Lake (photo by L.J. Butters)
  • Check with ice-pole (Swed: ispik, Inuk: unaak) before crossing pressure ridge(photo by L.J. Butters)
  • Whale Rock on Minamkeak Lake (photo by L.J. Butters)
  • 10 km route on Wiles L, Mar 6 (44.3755,-64.5573)
  • Wiles lake
  • 8 km Route on Little Mushamush Lake, Mar 6 2011 (44.5092,-64.5190)
  • Little Mushamush
• Mar 9, 10 2011; Gaspereau Lake, Black River Lake First time since early January that the South Mountain Lakes are skate-able
  • Mar 9 2011; Skating route on Gaspereau Lake 17.5 km (44.9880,-64.5327)
  • Ice on Gaspereau Lake
  • Mar 10 2011; 50 km kicksled and skate tour of Black River Lake (44.975,-64.3761)
    Part 1: 39 km ; kicksled the whole shoreline
    Part 2: 11km skating on north part of lake
  • Ice at south end on Black River Lake
• Mar 15 2011; Gaspereau Lake kicksled around whole lake, some skating on smoother ice- 42km
  • Track map- 42 km
  • islands in lake
  • beaver lodge in flooded marsh
  • The Monolith
• Mar 20 2011; Lake George, Loon Lake Total 35 km kicksled and skate
  • Route Lake George 22 km (44.924,-64.6902)
  • lighthouse on ice Lake George
  • Lake George, some ice for passable skating
  • Route Loon Lake 13 km (44.8867,-64.6775)
  • skating ice on Loon Lake
  • kicksled ice on Loon Lake
• Mar 21 2011; Gaspereau Lake ice still holding, surface was hard until early afternoon. No eagles seen in the nest on the island but hundreds of blackbacked gulls gathering on the rocks in the middle of the lake
  • Route map of Mar 21 on Gaspereau Lake
  • Mar 21; blackbacked gulls gathering
  • Mar 21; tectonic crack ice is about 35 cm thick
• Apr 4 2011; Last ice trip for breakfast on Black River Lake
  • Route map for breakfast tour on Apr 4
  • Apr 4 2011; breakfast by the ice I cooked breakfast on a rock on the lakeshore