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January 25, 2006 - 23:18 — Bob Gray

Does anyone know the snow/ice conditions on Lake Winnebago?

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January 28, 2006 - 21:00 — sailaway

ice on Winnebago

According to the 4 Lakes Club Web site the stern steerers have called off the WSSA regatta because of bad ice conditions. Don't know about the DNs.

January 26, 2006 - 04:07 — GeoffS

The North end was...

... described last Sunday as:

    ... snow free. It was a iceboat wonderland. Over 1 foot thick easy. Drive the trucks on and miles of great ice.

(by a DNer...)

I haven't heard any more specifics, but the stern-steerers have called on their regatta (WSSA) for the NE corner of the lake. From the announcement on iceboat.org:

    Via Jeff Seeboth: "We have identified a potential regatta site on the far north end of Lake Winnebago. Ice thickness was measure at 12 + inches and drive on access has been identified. Final determination will be made at 12:00 noon on Thursday January 26th ...

There's a discussion thread on the iceboat.org Message Board about the conditions, too. You could probably get some more information there.

The snow here in Madison is slowly disappearing; I took a couple of photos of a landing on the NE end of Lake Mendota: the landing shoreline and lake surface.

I'm guessing that the surface of Winnebago looks similar...

Cheers,

Geoff S.
DN US-5156
geoff-s.net