Today we went and checked ice. With the new snow cover, (approximately  of 2″) it was much harder to check in the new ice areas of week ago, so it took more time.  We established and marked the Graveyard Road, the road to the NE side of Pope’s Reef on the deeper side, And our North Pope’s Road. Tomorrow we will be marking the Ray’s Reef road to the east side of it in the deeper water.  We encountered anywhere from as little as 5″ to as much as 9″ of ice.  I was the road stake guy today and as I was putting stakes in on what will be our roads.  4 times I drilled thru the ice in under 5″. (I set a stop at 5″ just for that purpose).  So we have a long way to go yet, and I’m hopeful that the colder weather coming this weekend will get us going next week.

Barring any more significant snowfall this week I plan on opening our access and office on Thursday for ATV’s and snowmobiles, (no Side by Sides) with portables. There will be plenty of parking in our field along the driveway and wheelhouses campers over this coming weekend when the time comes. I attached a picture, even though late this afternoon), of some of our progress.

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Tomorrow we’ll be back at it.

Eddy