Tom, Dave, and I went on our last trip of the fall on Dec 18 from Converse Bay and headed south.
Pretty much everything in splash range of the lake had some ice.
Including the the raft that set out on a round the world trip last month but wrecked on Thompson's Point about 15 miles into it.
This was the first time we'd been out that way since the incident. Article on wreck
Our planned endpoint was the mouth of Lewis Creek, in Hawkins Bay. The bay is already frozen in, so after a seal landing on the sheet and some hunting around for a passage, we headed home with the wind at our backs. On passing the wreck, we saw someone from the fire department who secured the raft to the cliff and tied some netting over the openings to keep more junk from ending up in the lake. Some talk with him, and the pictures, ended up with a followup article in the paper with one of my pics on page 1! Burlington Free Press OK, it's not the NY Times, but it is The Paper for about half the state.
The day after Christmas there was a wicked zero degree north wind, so the next time out, "splash range" was a lot higher. Exposed shore/cliff had ice going up about 40 feet.
These are only about 5-6 feet, under an overhang
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Tom decided that his iphone (with dry bag) makes a good paddling camera, so I'm not the only photographer anymore. One of his:
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nice! no trips in 2012?!
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