Ice Out Lake Kipawa Contest

[limacharley]

I went snowmobiling on the lake and in the bush trails Saturday and can confirm what T-Bone wrote. Two feet of good solid ice still; no slush...no appearance of break up anywhere. And the forecast is close to the freezing mark for the rest of the week and next. The local snowmobile club even announced that the trails were still open and they're in very good shape...yikes.

Those May dates for open water are looking pretty good.

[Canuckbass]

No swimming May long weekend then!!
Did that once and was a heart stopper. Quickest bath I've ever had.

[crackers42]

Looks like a late spring and I wouldn't doubt the ice may not be totally off for the may long weekend.

There is still quite a bit of snow in the bush and solid ice on the lake.

[limacharley]

One foot of beautiful white powder on the logging road trails Friday. Went sledding again yesterday and put on 200 kilometres. Again no slush encountered anywhere. Quite a few people enjoying the late winter’s push: either sledding or working on their wood cutting pile.
If I could ever figure out how to post pics I would.

[Canuckbass]

Wow, almost tempted to head to island on snowmobile.... But it'll take a day to warm main cabin up.

[smitty55]

If I could ever figure out how to post pics I would.

Very simple using imgur. Join the site and upload any pics you want. I just drag and drop from my pc. Then click on the pic you want to upload and a window like this will open.


Left click on copy bbcode. Go to your post on whatever forum. Right click and paste. That's it, your pic is now posted. In the bottom right of the window you can adjust the size of the pic. Very easy and works great.

Cheers

[limacharley]

https://imgur.com/I4fRVpv

https://imgur.com/XNVSK34                   

https://imgur.com/TTpDElV                     

boathouse pic-----you can see where the water level was for awhile then they dropped the level.

[limacharley]

here's a few more of what Kip looks like in winter...

https://imgur.com/NTryzN5

https://imgur.com/8zp26oW

[puckster_guy]

Cool job on that sauna, Looks like a project for one of these years. lol so much to do...so little time and money.

[Canuckbass]

Certainly many great people on this site, thank you @limacharley for a couple pics he sent me of small damage to a cabin. Nice to know before our arrival.

[smitty55]

here's a few more of what Kip looks like in winter...

https://imgur.com/NTryzN5

https://imgur.com/8zp26oW

Hmmm, your pics should be showing up, not just the link. Are you clicking on the copy button in BBCode?

Cheers

[limacharley]

i'll get the hang of it eventually...

[pike mike]

Wow , April 17th sure doesnt look good as of the weekend dumping we all got . Really really really ready for spring to arrive !!!!!!!

[T-Bone]

Look at last year's satellite versus this year at essentially the same date...clear difference in 'softness' of the ice at this point...both on Kipawa, the Ottawa River, and Lake Nippissing. Maybe we should start betting on when true 'opener' is going to be versus ice out.

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[puckster_guy]

 wowzers, those to pics speak volumes. Having said that temps are moving toward double digits up there next week. Hoping for a warmer spring....