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The warm weather and little bit of rain got rid of the snow on Red Sand and Rice Lake. The ice is smooth, but stay south of the island on Rice to avoid the Mississippi flow. I may check out Round lake if the snow holds off Wednesday night.

Red Sand lake near Brainerd, 3 inches of clear ice, earliest start ever. (for me anyway)

Check the CAPE index on windy.com to see how likely thunderstorms are. It has been helpful for me.

OK, here goes. Tuesday enjoyed some good side on swell at Reddy. Well powered on a 6.2, a few splashes of rain but no thunder. Not another kite or sail in sight. Wednesday, Round Lake (Nisswa) great planing conditions with a 7.3 especially on the north end where the wind was coming off Gull across 3...

Yes, your fin story is hilarious. It goes to show how dumb some people can be.

PS planing winds yesterday and today at the north flats SPI

I taped a short piece of pvc pipe to each side of my regular boot dryer to give the damp air an escape path. Now my 5mm split toe booties are toasty dry overnight

Up here in the Hackensack area the snow is disappearing fast but rideable. I just got back from a fun light wind session on a small lake just north of Backus with a 7.5 Apex 3. Apparent wind ROCKS

I would also like to thank you for your service and wish you safe and successful missions.

Nice windsurfing forecast for Pine Mountain (Backus) , I'm gonna close early today, there won't be too many more days like this.

The Waconia text link works but the one on the map doesn't point to the "lakes" subdirectory.

Think wind -- Mike