Calhoun and City Lakes

[DavidF]

Any observations on the ice conditions on Calhoun or the other city lakes? I am guessing that the snow isn't really there anyway, but hoping to at least start with reasonable ice thickness.

[Tighe]

I don't know about inner cities lakes, but waconia was great yesterday, (four wheels out at the ice houses) and Cannon seemed quite solid today. Snow was good at both. A bit deeper at cannon. Neither have a lot of bonding going on though.

[speedsailor93]

Snow has bonded pretty well on Waconia today and conditions are great. Even snow depth around two inches with minimal cracks or pressure ridges so far. Spent 3 hours cruising this afternoon. With the cold forecast should stay in good shape this week.

[DavidF]

I was out on Calhoun today. I could see some shiny areas out in the middle of the lake that were either puddles due to water coming up through cracks or frozen puddles.

I was at the south end, fairly close to shore. I put in a bunch of ice screws to check the ice thickness and I looked at old ice fishing holes. Everywhere that I looked, the ice appeared to be clear, dark, and at least 8" thick. This is definitely not likely representative of the whole lake, so make your own observations/determinations.

There was about 1.5" of snow on the lake and it wasn't that well bonded to the ice, but I had no problem holding an edge.

I was stoked to be out on a crisp, sunny, beautiful day for some urban kiting...

[Barry P]

I kited Medicine Lake today. 12 inches of ice. I parked on the ice. One inch of consistent snow cover, pretty much bonded. A nice session

[Al C]

I kited on the S side of Calhoun today as well. The 2" of snow was bonded fairly well, better than Cannon yesterday, although Cannon had more snow. I ventured onto the shiny areas for amusement, they were solid as far as I could tell, ice fishermen holes and skate skier tracks going through it before I did; didn't seem like much point to exploring this though, kept to the better snow after that .

Good to see Bruce & crew gettin' after it, excellent job staying up wind 2nd day out Richard, you're a natural at this!

Looks like conditions are lining up well on metro lakes for the next snow (Wed?), hope springs eternal.

Happy New Years Everyone !