By Mary Drew at Pasty Central (Mdrew) on Monday, December 26, 2011 - 07:53 am:
Steve Brimm and Amanda Wais headed out onto Lake Fanny Hooe, last week one day, to inspect the ice. Kind of looks like Amanda thought the ice might need a cleaning, but read on and you'll find out why she had a mop with her. Steve took the pictures and Amanda blogged about it, so let me turn the notes over to her, to tell about their adventure on ice.
There is a fine line between listening to what EVERYone else tells you and doing what you know you can do. Here is my example.
Tuesday was a beautifully sunny day. Sooo unseasonably gorgeous. Since it's natural for me to want to be in the most sun possible, my heart was steering me to Lake Fanny Hooe. I was out the day before, and I knew it was traversable. I wanted to go skating. "No." "Don't go out yet." "Don't do it by yourself."
Those were the comments from my townsfolk. I appreciate their concern. So instead, I found Steve Brimm to come out with me. We carried long poles (his was a garden hoe, mine was a mop) in case we did go through. He didn't have skates, so we slid around in out boots.
Verdict: the ice is fine. It was at least three inches thick. I was going to skate on it the next day.
Amanda did skate on Lake Fanny Hooe the next day and enjoyed it immensely, but unfortunately we don't have photos of that to share with you all. In case you're wondering about the giant crack in the ice... Amanda and Steve said it runs from one shore, at the mouth of the Manganese Falls, to the north shore on the other side, but is quite solid. Could it be that it's caused from water movement at the mouth of the falls?
Sure looks like a splendid day they had as Lake Fanny Hooe's unofficial ice inspectors.
