Spring Weekend

March 20th through 22nd, 2003

Lake Lucerne
Friday morning and a cool mist hung heavy in the air. Any trace of snow on the lake was almost gone.
Lake Lucerne
The large snowball rolled last week by Meg survived!
Lake Lucerne
Our fort is almost gone!
Lake Lucerne
As is Jeff's.
Lake Lucerne
Dean's fort showed itself as a white patch on the ice.
Lake Lucerne
The hole we drilled last weekend to measure the ice depth has not refroze. It had grown about 75% larger during the week.
Lake Lucerne
We drilled a new hole and measured 24 inches of very good ice.
Lake Lucerne
The ice had melted enough around the "Nail Pier" to pull it free of the damaging ice.
Lake Lucerne
The next measure of the lake level (wrt the nail) will be given after ice-out.
Lake Lucerne
The haze stayed around all day on Friday.
Lake Lucerne
The sap stopped running but the sap formerly collected continued to boil and, shortly after this picture, was syrup.
Lake Lucerne
On Saturday the snowball had fallen over.
Lake Lucerne
The syrup was canned the previous night.
Lake Lucerne
The condition of Knott Lane has been described as "not good".


-Nemo