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Originally Posted by Misty Blue
'Drove from Moultonberry to Alton and saw no open water.This morning I took the small snowmobile out on Braun Bay and headed into the Lake.
The Bay seems very hard. Snow mobile hard, not truck hard.
When I hit the broads I saw nothing but black ice. I'm talking Zamboini quality black ice. If I had my skis on I may have kept going but with a machine with a 150 foot stopping distance and no steering (ice), even a nut like me knows when to call it quits. The trails stink any way.
Heading home I hit this "plate glass" ice, did more donuts than "Dunkin's" and crept back to the barn.
In a quote from "Hill Street Blues" "Let's be careful out there".
Misty
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You got a lot of Onions Kid!!!!
In winter of 2002, I left Paugus Bay on my sled to ride over the Lake and meet with a buddy, ice fishing in the basin, "Winter Harbor Way". At that time the broads ice had just formed. I checked the Lake water temp here at www. winnipesaukee.com and it was at 32 degrees. I knew from the ambeant and Lake water temps that if I did not lallygag over the broads section of the Lake that I would be fine. I have carbide traction and steerage for any ice cnditions for snowmobiling. At the Basin when my buddy and I met up, he said to me, "Man.... the Lake was open water four days ago".....
Well, I said, I didn't stop on my way over, and I ain't going to stop on my way back!
"Don't try this at home", Folks!!!!