Frozen

042709: In January 2007 the lake froze over and stayed that way until just before we opened. Everyday we would wake up and find the ice thicker, bigger. The pattern of growing ice is clearly visible in this photo.

Nearly everyday we would stand outside somewhere between 9am - 11am and listen to the frozen lake warming up. As the sun rose in the sky the ice would crack, creating it's own music, pinging off the hills in the valley.

Soon after David would clear the water on the shoreline for the birds (you can see this in the photo at the bottom.) Occasionally we would take these big chunks of ice and throw them out on the lake to see how far they would slide (like curling.) It was amazing to see them slide so far we would lose sight of them.

Near the beginning of March the South dock was being prepared to roll into the water, yet there was still a frozen lake! We called my dad and asked him what he had done in the past in a similar situation. He stated that when the ice begins to melt around the perimeter that it would take only one good wind to make it all disappear. Well he was right! That is exactly what happened and one day we watched the wind move the ice cap slowly across the lake and fold up on itself on the Eastern shoreline. The ice was gone in the span of a day as if it never happened at all.