A New Key Ice Condition Indicator

Driving back from Pepin WI, listening to some great tunes (e.g., http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtuvXrTz8DY ), enjoying the spectacular vista's of Lake Pepin, and knowing the aches of a triple digit mileage sailing weekend will be with me for a few more hours... first it was just a flash across the windshield, could it be?

Yup, Coming down a hill at about 60, yup there's another...

Bugs in the windshield... I think it was a moth.

I'm pretty sure when they start hatching for the season, the lake nearby is toast!

Think we better look north towards maybe Brainerd if the sails will see sunlight again this season. There was still snow on the ice there yesterday.

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