I drove around the lake this morning to check on how much ice is remaining on the lake. It appears about 75% of the ice is gone, with 2 large floes remaining in more or less the traditional areas. In area that’s roughly 120 acres of ice remaining. The largest area of ice is down in the east end of the lake where there’s about 92 acres of ice, completely blocking access to the lake from the State boat launch. There’s also the usual floe on the south shore on either side of the Jefferson/Whitefield town line, about 26 acres in size. My target is 99.5% of the ice gone which allows for roughly 2.5 acres of persistent ice in coves along the south shore. Experience suggests this condition could last for some time.

The Clary_cam3 picture above (and at left) was from this morning. Patience everyone!