Winter Visit to Green Lake

Stan Roy, Rod Armstrong, Jim Armstrong and I, (Tony Fowler) arrived at the club Tuesday January thirty-first mid-afternoon, and left the morning of Thursday February second having stayed in cabin # 2. The property and cabins are secure, and the wood-stove provided more than adequate heat. There is plenty of snow, a metre or more in some places, however the lake is not particularly well frozen. We drilled a hole about 15 metres off-shore from the beach for our water supply through a few layers of soft ice and slush totalling only about 30cm in thickness. Wednesday the temperature hovered around the freezing point and we experienced 5 to 10 cm of snow, fog and light freezing-rain . Toward nightfall the North wind picked up, the temperature dropped and we had a brilliant star-lit sky.  Thursday the temperature at sunrise was -8 Deg.C, and the morning was bright and sunny with no appreciable wind.


We went in by ski-doo because otherwise it would have been too much to haul our gear in. Even so we all managed to get stuck at various times. However, we carried snow-shoes and helped each other recover the machines, because once buried, it commonly requires help to extricate the machines from deep powder.
News from Tony posted courtesy of Hg.