This is our fourth year running a Clary Lake Ice-Out contest. This year’s prize for first place is a $25 Gift Certificate to The Jefferson Scoop. Yay Ice Cream! If you guess the correct ice-out date or come closest without going past it, you’re the winner. It’s quite likely that the ice will go out before the Scoop actually opens for business. You were warned. In the event there are two (or more) people who guessed the same winning date, the person guessing first (based on the recorded timestamp) will be the winner and the other less-lucky (but still lucky!) person (or persons!) will win a laminated 8.5″ x 11″ Clary Lake Depth Map as a runner up prize (see below). FYI, the earliest the lake has been deemed completely free of ice was on March 13, 2016; the latest the ice has gone out was on April 24, 2001. Last year’s “official” ice out date was March 29th which was correctly guessed by Vicki Grimaldi. She won a beautiful 12″ H x 15″ W framed loon photograph taken by David Hodsdon. We also awarded some second places prizes to a couple of lucky but not that lucky people. Visit our Ice In and Ice Out page to see all our historical data back to 2001. Reviewing historical ice-in and ice-out data is NOT CHEATING!.
We’ll be closing the contest to new guesses late on March 15th or sooner if it looks like ice out is actually imminent. Guess as often as you want, but remember: only your last guess counts! Here’s the Entry Form:
2023 Ice Out Guestimates
These are the guesses for ice out. The timestamp column will be used to decide on who was first in the event of a tie. I'll try and keep this more or less up to date. Hint: you can sort on any of the columns by clicking on the header:| Timestamp | Your name: | Ice Out Guess: |
|---|---|---|
| 3/12/2023 19:22:09 | Sue Webb | 3/17/2023 |
| 3/1/2023 14:22:10 | Stephen Viti | 3/21/2023 |
| 3/13/2023 23:19:11 | Megan Luisi | 3/22/2023 |
| 3/1/2023 14:08:55 | Randall B Wing | 3/23/2023 |
| 3/1/2023 16:41:05 | Jack Holland | 3/23/2023 |
| 3/1/2023 11:06:25 | Karen Stutzer | 3/24/2023 |
| 3/1/2023 12:36:22 | June Relyea | 3/26/2023 |
| 3/1/2023 16:06:19 | Anya Lagasse | 3/26/2023 |
| 3/1/2023 13:47:45 | Jay Bridgforth | 3/27/2023 |
| 3/4/2023 11:40:18 | Carolyn Curtis | 3/27/2023 |
| 3/1/2023 16:13:16 | Dan Burns | 3/28/2023 |
| 3/1/2023 21:04:18 | Sophie Seba | 3/28/2023 |
| 3/1/2023 16:50:39 | Megan Breece | 3/29/2023 |
| 3/8/2023 8:53:45 | Linda S Gallion | 3/30/2023 |
| 3/2/2023 18:16:36 | Thomas Gillette | 3/31/2023 |
| 3/6/2023 16:42:51 | Cheryl Smith | 3/31/2023 |
| 3/10/2023 11:35:09 | Steve Relyea | 4/1/2023 |
| 3/13/2023 18:59:22 | Ronnie Spann | 4/1/2023 |
| 3/12/2023 14:04:17 | Rick Gallion | 4/2/2023 |
| 3/14/2023 12:06:28 | Gayle Knight | 4/3/2023 |
| 3/1/2023 13:41:57 | Sarah Hazelton | 4/4/2023 |
| 3/1/2023 19:40:31 | David L Marsh | 4/4/2023 |
| 3/8/2023 10:48:13 | Brian Vogel | 4/4/2023 |
| 3/13/2023 18:06:57 | Beverley Bowen | 4/4/2023 |
| 3/1/2023 15:54:06 | Julie Anderson | 4/5/2023 |
| 3/3/2023 8:35:39 | Cindy Norman | 4/5/2023 |
| 3/1/2023 11:39:48 | Bill Hall | 4/6/2023 |
| 3/10/2023 10:19:24 | Michelle Pinkham | 4/6/2023 |
| 3/14/2023 12:08:25 | David Knight | 4/7/2023 |
| 3/10/2023 10:20:24 | Steve Pinkham | 4/9/2023 |
| 3/1/2023 16:56:40 | Dedi Rapp | 4/10/2023 |
| 3/15/2023 10:05:50 | Vicky Grimaldi | 4/12/2023 |
| 3/15/2023 11:23:56 | Ellis Percy | 4/12/2023 |
| 3/4/2023 11:29:37 | June m Lordi | 4/10/2023 |
| 3/1/2023 13:44:12 | DONNA Roeckel | 4/13/2023 |
| 3/13/2023 20:24:48 | Wynne Keller | 4/13/2023 |
| 3/13/2023 19:02:50 | Charlene Andersen | 4/14/2023 |
| 3/1/2023 13:08:23 | Kate Seba | 4/25/2023 |