Official 2018-2019 Ice-in Thread

upthesaukee · 11-24-2018, 05:01 PM

Thanks IG.

Here's the pics from the ice on Alton Bay thread.

Dave

Blue Thunder · 11-24-2018, 10:05 PM

With all due respect, we are weeks away from any serious ice in discussions.....but I’ve been wrong before....

exlakesregioner · 11-25-2018, 09:33 PM

going to be a warmer than usual winter, no total ice in this year!!

CaptT820 · 11-26-2018, 11:12 AM

According to folks at West Alton, the marina basin was iced in on November 17th, 2018. It has probably lost most if not all of that ice by now, but it did already freeze. Much to my chagrin, since I wanted to launch that day. 😡

Phantom · 11-26-2018, 12:02 PM

When we left Sunday after the Pat's game, MVYC was thinly "Iced In" from the channel at the gas dock & throughout all of the slips.

Don't know if it will last given the weather projections

No one's made mention that our "predictor" (Lily Pond) was completely frozen over from edge to edge.

hig · 11-26-2018, 12:59 PM

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Originally Posted by CaptT820

According to folks at West Alton, the marina basin was iced in on November 17th, 2018. It has probably lost most if not all of that ice by now, but it did already freeze. Much to my chagrin, since I wanted to launch that day.

I was at Minge Cove yesterday and it was still iced in. Ice was 2” thick in the marina (it was melting a little though). The channel was mostly clear.

I was the last boat still in the water there and it was not an easy task to get out of the marina. Flat battery, frozen bilge pump and I now know what piloting an icebreaker is like.

Not my best idea and I’ll never leave it so late to close again. Lifting a dock when the decking is frozen to the frame is no fun and the steep rattlesnake ramp is especially fun when covered in snow and ice.

Definitely a memorable end to the season.

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C-Bass · 11-29-2018, 08:49 AM

Looks like 20mi and 19mi bay have some ice on it. Also, looks like Mirror lake is locked in. Tough to see as its dark going to and from work now.

Sundancer320 · 11-30-2018, 01:16 PM

Was hoping to drop my fishing kayak in at 19 mile bay to make a quick run to island home to put a timer on my dock bubbler but may be too risky now.

chasedawg · 12-01-2018, 09:45 AM

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Originally Posted by Sundancer320

Was hoping to drop my fishing kayak in at 19 mile bay to make a quick run to island home to put a timer on my dock bubbler but may be too risky now.

The wind yesterday forced and moved the ice to shore. Nineteen Mile Bay is open. The ramp is open as well. Go for it.

upthesaukee · 12-07-2018, 03:57 PM

Lily Pond in Gilford is totally iced in. Not that I'd want to go for a walk on it.

Dave

upthesaukee · 12-07-2018, 04:05 PM

The ice on Alton Bay, which had virtually disappeared, is now out to Sandy .

Dave

MAXUM · 12-09-2018, 09:14 AM

Took my last trip out to BI yesterday, brisk 17 degree NW wind - entire NW shore line of bear is encased in ice. Water temp on the fish finder was reading 36 degrees. Even the markers had a nice ring of ice around the base.

Didn't stay out long anywhere the water was splashing it was flash freezing.

Can't imagine if this keeps up the ice will form pretty quickly. Sadly I think the boat will get winterized today!

CaptT820 · 12-10-2018, 09:04 AM

Maxum-
I am curious (and a bit jealous) about your setup, to be able to access an island this late in the season.
I assume you have a permanent dock on the island, but how to you keep the mainland ice free this late? I launch out of West Alton to get to our island and they were frozen solid three weeks ago.

Thx

upthesaukee · 12-10-2018, 04:46 PM

With this cold snap, the ice is out to around Peggy's Cove, just short of Echo Point.

Dave.

upthesaukee · 12-10-2018, 04:50 PM

We came over the bypass heading to Alton from Tilton, and there were snowmobile tracks on the ice, running in an oval like a race track. Also 3 people ice fishing near the road.

Dave

codeman671 · 12-10-2018, 04:55 PM

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Originally Posted by CaptT820

Maxum-
I am curious (and a bit jealous) about your setup, to be able to access an island this late in the season.
I assume you have a permanent dock on the island, but how to you keep the mainland ice free this late? I launch out of West Alton to get to our island and they were frozen solid three weeks ago.

Thx

I believe he comes out of Shep's which is usually open late. Glendale should still be open and not that far of a ride either. I use it for late season runs, as Gilford Yacht Club has been locked up for a few weeks.

MAXUM · 12-10-2018, 05:06 PM

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Originally Posted by CaptT820

Maxum-
I am curious (and a bit jealous) about your setup, to be able to access an island this late in the season.
I assume you have a permanent dock on the island, but how to you keep the mainland ice free this late? I launch out of West Alton to get to our island and they were frozen solid three weeks ago.

Thx

No permanent dock, I have a seasonal dock that I typically pull mid to late September. From there it's a matter of scrapping for a parking spot. My neighbors have a crank up setups so they pull theirs up pretty late. It's a trade off they usually use mine in the spring cause I get mine in first, at least enough sections to tie the boat up to. This time of year everyone has their docks out so I just park at the BI post office dock and hike in from there.

Far as on the mainland.... the launch at Sheps was wide open and that's pretty typical even in the winter. Several of the island service crews leave their barges in the water there over the winter. The nice thing about this time of year, plenty of parking and no waiting to pop the boat in or out of the water.

Next trip out will be over the ice pending reliable conditions. Crossing my fingers it may be some time in early to mid January. We shall see!

Mink Islander · 12-10-2018, 09:32 PM

I appreciate the optimism for an early ice in!

Attached is a pic from a couple days ago looking north from Mink Island. Little ice flow passing by. Warming trend late in the week will stall things a little.

Mink Islander · 12-11-2018, 08:20 AM

Looks like a skim of ice formed overnight north of Mink Island. Progress!

Mount Washington in all its winter white splendor off in the distance.

codeman671 · 12-11-2018, 11:15 AM

Slight skim between Mark and Bear

Pine Island Guy · 12-12-2018, 05:32 PM

From Y-Landing to the southern tip of Pine Island was 3/4 to an inch of ice... and then a skim coat of ice on the (sheltered) eastern side of Pine inside FL#4...

The trusty AlumaCraft made it through no issues... but tonight with 5 degrees and no wind... could solidify things a lot!!

Hopefully we don't have a repeat of last year with an early freeze and then big thaw...

think cold!! -PIG

Blue Thunder · 12-28-2018, 09:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Blue Thunder

With all due respect, we are weeks away from any serious ice in discussions.....but I’ve been wrong before....

I said the above in November when this thread was started and it holds true today. The weather pattern needs to change and that is not in the cards for the next week to ten days at least.

joey2665 · 12-31-2018, 07:52 AM

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Originally Posted by Blue Thunder

I said the above in November when this thread was started and it holds true today. The weather pattern needs to change and that is not in the cards for the next week to ten days at least.

You are correct the next 10 days don’t look very promising. Yes below freezing at night but daytime close to or above freezing. We need a good week of single digits at night and no wind to really see some significant progress.

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baastan · 01-03-2019, 08:10 PM

Hey all I'm down in leavitt park / Patrician shores and on monday and tuesday the lake was locking up around my parts, extending outward from Center Harbor, but was wondering what the progress was from everyone else around the lake? There were a couple dozen people fishing in Center Harbor that's been locked up for quite awhile.

I just need safety for my snowmobiles as well some more snow which is starting to pick up.

Eagerly awaiting your replies and real winter to start.

fatlazyless · 01-05-2019, 10:19 AM

Have been smashing up the very thin ice, all around my dock with a roof rake the last two days. Attention self: get the heck off this forum and go get that dock and boat lift outta here ...... it's now or never ..... and ice circulators and timers have become very expensive ..... not cheap! ..... hut-hut-hut ..... gotta get on it ...... do it now ..... Jan 5 & 6 ..... today and tomorrow .... or else, it's ice time.

It takes two come-a-longs, a ramp made with 10' construction 2x10's, going in and out of the cold lake about ten times, to remove dock and 450-lb boat lift ......... who me procrastinate ....... never, never, never! ..... is so much better than Naples, Florida!

Mink Islander · 01-05-2019, 06:09 PM

Just slush on the north side on Mink. But a snow-capped Mount Washington is visible in the distance.

fatlazyless · 01-05-2019, 08:01 PM

About 4:15pm today, a large barge with a yellow excavator in the center, chugged down through the grey ice-slush between Timber and Mark. It was making a lot of noise grinding through the ice, moving about 1/4-mph, moving toward the open water. It sounded like what a tank battle from WWI must have sound like, slowly grinding through.

PCTim · 01-06-2019, 01:09 PM

Any reports on Meredith Bay? I'm wondering if there's going to be pond hockey this year.

Island Girl · 01-08-2019, 08:52 AM

January 7, 2019.

Mink Islander · 01-08-2019, 09:13 AM

Another couple mild-ish days and then the cold settles in for a while. Pretty much on track for a typical winter with “safe” ice — defined as at least 6” of black ice, by the end of the third week of January when traveling from Shep Brown’s to Mink Island. We’ll see.....

MAXUM · 01-08-2019, 11:01 AM

Snow helps show where the ice has some structure to it versus where it's wet and slushy still. Ideally it'd be nice if the snow cover is light - bare exposed ice will build faster than if insulated with a thick blanket of snow.

Like you looking forward to opening up the camp for the winter in a few weeks...

11-24-2018, 05:01 PM	#1
upthesaukee Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Alton Bay Posts: 5,604 Blog Entries: 2 Thanks: 2,470 Thanked 1,983 Times in 1,083 Posts	yeah, Thanks IG. Here's the pics from the ice on Alton Bay thread. Dave Attached Images __________________ I Live Here... I am always UPTHESAUKEE !!!!

11-24-2018, 10:05 PM	#2
Blue Thunder Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Eastern MA & Frye Island/Sebago Lake, Maine Posts: 952 Thanks: 254 Thanked 351 Times in 158 Posts	With all due respect, we are weeks away from any serious ice in discussions.....but I’ve been wrong before.... __________________ " Live for today because yesterday is gone and tomorrow may never come"

11-26-2018, 12:02 PM	#5
Phantom Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Berlin, Ma / Gilford Posts: 1,934 Thanks: 450 Thanked 605 Times in 341 Posts	Mountain View Yacht Club When we left Sunday after the Pat's game, MVYC was thinly "Iced In" from the channel at the gas dock & throughout all of the slips. Don't know if it will last given the weather projections No one's made mention that our "predictor" (Lily Pond) was completely frozen over from edge to edge. __________________ *A bad day on the Big Lake (although I've never had one) - Still beats a day at the office!!*

12-07-2018, 03:57 PM	#10
upthesaukee Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Alton Bay Posts: 5,604 Blog Entries: 2 Thanks: 2,470 Thanked 1,983 Times in 1,083 Posts	Lily Pond in Gilford Lily Pond in Gilford is totally iced in. Not that I'd want to go for a walk on it. Dave __________________ I Live Here... I am always UPTHESAUKEE !!!!

12-07-2018, 04:05 PM	#11
upthesaukee Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Alton Bay Posts: 5,604 Blog Entries: 2 Thanks: 2,470 Thanked 1,983 Times in 1,083 Posts	Alton Bay Ice The ice on Alton Bay, which had virtually disappeared, is now out to Sandy . Dave __________________ I Live Here... I am always UPTHESAUKEE !!!!

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11-25-2018, 09:33 PM	#3
exlakesregioner Member Join Date: Dec 2014 Posts: 45 Thanks: 2 Thanked 18 Times in 12 Posts	going to be a warmer than usual winter, no total ice in this year!!

11-26-2018, 11:12 AM	#4
CaptT820 Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2012 Posts: 122 Thanks: 86 Thanked 46 Times in 27 Posts	Iced According to folks at West Alton, the marina basin was iced in on November 17th, 2018. It has probably lost most if not all of that ice by now, but it did already freeze. Much to my chagrin, since I wanted to launch that day. 😡

11-29-2018, 08:49 AM	#7
C-Bass Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2017 Posts: 157 Thanks: 1 Thanked 34 Times in 17 Posts	Looks like 20mi and 19mi bay have some ice on it. Also, looks like Mirror lake is locked in. Tough to see as its dark going to and from work now.

11-30-2018, 01:16 PM	#8
Sundancer320 Senior Member Join Date: May 2015 Posts: 88 Thanks: 7 Thanked 34 Times in 17 Posts	Was hoping to drop my fishing kayak in at 19 mile bay to make a quick run to island home to put a timer on my dock bubbler but may be too risky now.

12-09-2018, 09:14 AM	#12
MAXUM Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Kuna ID Posts: 2,755 Thanks: 246 Thanked 1,942 Times in 802 Posts	Took my last trip out to BI yesterday, brisk 17 degree NW wind - entire NW shore line of bear is encased in ice. Water temp on the fish finder was reading 36 degrees. Even the markers had a nice ring of ice around the base. Didn't stay out long anywhere the water was splashing it was flash freezing. Can't imagine if this keeps up the ice will form pretty quickly. Sadly I think the boat will get winterized today!

12-10-2018, 09:04 AM	#13
CaptT820 Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2012 Posts: 122 Thanks: 86 Thanked 46 Times in 27 Posts	Access Maxum- I am curious (and a bit jealous) about your setup, to be able to access an island this late in the season. I assume you have a permanent dock on the island, but how to you keep the mainland ice free this late? I launch out of West Alton to get to our island and they were frozen solid three weeks ago. Thx

12-10-2018, 04:46 PM	#14
upthesaukee Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Alton Bay Posts: 5,604 Blog Entries: 2 Thanks: 2,470 Thanked 1,983 Times in 1,083 Posts	Alton Bay Ice With this cold snap, the ice is out to around Peggy's Cove, just short of Echo Point. Dave. __________________ I Live Here... I am always UPTHESAUKEE !!!!

12-10-2018, 04:50 PM	#15
upthesaukee Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Alton Bay Posts: 5,604 Blog Entries: 2 Thanks: 2,470 Thanked 1,983 Times in 1,083 Posts	Lily Pond in Gilford We came over the bypass heading to Alton from Tilton, and there were snowmobile tracks on the ice, running in an oval like a race track. Also 3 people ice fishing near the road. Dave __________________ I Live Here... I am always UPTHESAUKEE !!!!

12-10-2018, 09:32 PM	#18
Mink Islander Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 753 Thanks: 59 Thanked 271 Times in 129 Posts	Ice in I appreciate the optimism for an early ice in! Attached is a pic from a couple days ago looking north from Mink Island. Little ice flow passing by. Warming trend late in the week will stall things a little. Attached Images

12-11-2018, 08:20 AM	#19
Mink Islander Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 753 Thanks: 59 Thanked 271 Times in 129 Posts	Inch by inch.... Looks like a skim of ice formed overnight north of Mink Island. Progress! Mount Washington in all its winter white splendor off in the distance. Attached Images

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12-11-2018, 11:15 AM	#20
codeman671 Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 3,514 Thanks: 221 Thanked 821 Times in 493 Posts	Slight skim between Mark and Bear Attached Images

12-12-2018, 05:32 PM	#21
Pine Island Guy Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: pine island of course! Posts: 406 Thanks: 245 Thanked 246 Times in 112 Posts	around Pine From Y-Landing to the southern tip of Pine Island was 3/4 to an inch of ice... and then a skim coat of ice on the (sheltered) eastern side of Pine inside FL#4... The trusty AlumaCraft made it through no issues... but tonight with 5 degrees and no wind... could solidify things a lot!! Hopefully we don't have a repeat of last year with an early freeze and then big thaw... think cold!! -PIG

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01-03-2019, 08:10 PM	#24
baastan Member Join Date: Jun 2014 Location: Meredith Posts: 40 Thanks: 7 Thanked 9 Times in 6 Posts	Hey all I'm down in leavitt park / Patrician shores and on monday and tuesday the lake was locking up around my parts, extending outward from Center Harbor, but was wondering what the progress was from everyone else around the lake? There were a couple dozen people fishing in Center Harbor that's been locked up for quite awhile. I just need safety for my snowmobiles as well some more snow which is starting to pick up. Eagerly awaiting your replies and real winter to start.

01-05-2019, 10:19 AM	#25
fatlazyless Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 8,800 Blog Entries: 1 Thanks: 301 Thanked 1,026 Times in 746 Posts	Have been smashing up the very thin ice, all around my dock with a roof rake the last two days. Attention self: get the heck off this forum and go get that dock and boat lift outta here ...... it's now or never ..... and ice circulators and timers have become very expensive ..... not cheap! ..... hut-hut-hut ..... gotta get on it ...... do it now ..... Jan 5 & 6 ..... today and tomorrow .... or else, it's ice time. It takes two come-a-longs, a ramp made with 10' construction 2x10's, going in and out of the cold lake about ten times, to remove dock and 450-lb boat lift ......... who me procrastinate ....... never, never, never! ..... is so much better than Naples, Florida! __________________ ... down and out, liv'n that Walmart side of the lake!

01-05-2019, 06:09 PM	#26
Mink Islander Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 753 Thanks: 59 Thanked 271 Times in 129 Posts	Ice update Just slush on the north side on Mink. But a snow-capped Mount Washington is visible in the distance. Attached Images

01-05-2019, 08:01 PM	#27
fatlazyless Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 8,800 Blog Entries: 1 Thanks: 301 Thanked 1,026 Times in 746 Posts	About 4:15pm today, a large barge with a yellow excavator in the center, chugged down through the grey ice-slush between Timber and Mark. It was making a lot of noise grinding through the ice, moving about 1/4-mph, moving toward the open water. It sounded like what a tank battle from WWI must have sound like, slowly grinding through. __________________ ... down and out, liv'n that Walmart side of the lake!

01-06-2019, 01:09 PM	#28
PCTim Member Join Date: Jan 2015 Posts: 40 Thanks: 44 Thanked 16 Times in 10 Posts	Any reports on Meredith Bay? I'm wondering if there's going to be pond hockey this year.

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01-08-2019, 09:13 AM	#30
Mink Islander Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 753 Thanks: 59 Thanked 271 Times in 129 Posts	Tick tock Another couple mild-ish days and then the cold settles in for a while. Pretty much on track for a typical winter with “safe” ice — defined as at least 6” of black ice, by the end of the third week of January when traveling from Shep Brown’s to Mink Island. We’ll see..... Attached Images

01-08-2019, 11:01 AM	#31
MAXUM Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Kuna ID Posts: 2,755 Thanks: 246 Thanked 1,942 Times in 802 Posts	Snow helps show where the ice has some structure to it versus where it's wet and slushy still. Ideally it'd be nice if the snow cover is light - bare exposed ice will build faster than if insulated with a thick blanket of snow. Like you looking forward to opening up the camp for the winter in a few weeks...