Although late to start and some anxious days wondering if it would turn cold, winter 2023 has been fantastic. It's hard to believe that we were over a week late starting ice fishing here on the Avalon due to unsafe ice conditions. Since then its been a winter for the books. Lots of snow, and enough cold weather to make 18" of ice on the ponds we frequent.

It's the end of March and we were blessed with continued cool temperatures hovering around 0-1º daytimes and this past weekend a dandy of a winter storm. Last year was just terrible, and even though winter 2021 was decent, by the 20th of March many ponds were wide open.

Starting late Friday afternoon and accompanied by very strong winds, snow came with a fury. By Saturday morning we had just over 30cm of windswept snow on the ground. Typical spring snow, it was dense and very heavy.

My Honda 9/28 blower certainly worked hard and earned its keep tossing the majority of our snow directly into strong headwinds.

It's been a few years since I've had a drift this tall in front of the Rec. Room window!

Cheers, MIKE

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