Easter Weekend

Saturday morning started bright and cool. It soon became bright and warm (warm for the northwoods this time of year anyway.)

There was about 4 inches of snow on the lake and many snowmobile tracks.

Crandon is largely snow free. The Hotel Crandon is still a good place for breakfast.

Small signs on the tables at the Hotel Crandon made the claim that March is national nutrition month. We all read the cards while piling butter on pancakes and dunking sausages in syrup. The table quickly was divided into camps: Those that interpreted the card as saying we should eat more (the dessertarans) and those that claimed we should eat better (the diettishous). A third camp (the mortified), felt it strange to be taking pictures in restaurants and quickly fled the scene after eating.

Meanwhile, back in the woods, the sap flowed.

It may be warming up, but there is still plenty of snow.

And ice. Almost 28 inches of the stuff covers the lake.

The snow layer on the top of the ice made for some pretty bad golf. Yeah, that's it. The bad golf was due to the snow.

Easter Sunday started out better than Saturday.

"Rotten Ice" started showing up on the shores. Ice-out could be just a few weeks away.

After the snow melts the lake could be several feet deeper.

Knott lane is less icy, more sloppy.