Saturday

[efjanssen]

Saturday is looking pretty good. Where are folks thinking of heading? It would be fun to keep it local and head to Calhoun. Otherwise looking at the snow charts it looks like west of town got the most snow. Plus the wind forecast looks better west versus north. I was thinking Litchfield or Green Lake would work well. Can anyone report on conditions out that way? Any other thoughts?

[Lloyd K]

Wayzata bay, at the beach around 11am.

[peterrib]

Litchfield... When I left town Thurs there was 15-20 ft of open water around the edges of Ripley. A few fishermen are still walking on somewhere but not sure how they are doing it.
maybe if the ice shifts.
Peter

[mjcarter]

out on Waconia today. Wind was really variable and snow was rough, but we had a pretty good day. Surprised to not see anyone else out there on a nice saturday! Ice was thick, but creaking and cracking a LOT... kind of freaky!

[JERRY]

Snow is perfect on Ripley today with large kite. No water problems getting on lake. No one is driving on it though.

[BUCKAROO]

The Southsiders had a great day on Cannon today, there were four of us. We were flying two 14M T3s one 13M T3 and a Ozone 4.5M and had a blast. 90 % of the surface was covered with some form of snow and it was quite smooth. I could not believe more kiters were not out on such a beautiful day. I drilled a hole with a auger as I left 30 feet from shore and there was at least 18 to 24 inches of ice still there. We did have to walk on.

Craig

[efjanssen]

I ended up meeting up with Jay and Steve from Alexandria on Lake Osakis. What a beautiful day! Good snow coverage, steady winds at 12+, blue sky and warm temps. It doesn't get any better! Hopefully that is not it for the season. Jay and Steve were saying that they had their first water session last year on the first weekend of April. Two years ago we had our last snow session on Ottertail on the first weekend of April. That is MN weather for you.