Most recent ice depth at Joe's Pond.

As promised, Ted Chase called this morning after going out onto the ice in front of his home on North Shore Road to auger through the ice so he could measure it. He reports he found a layer of frozen crust on top of about a foot of slush, and then cut through about a foot and a half of "clear hard ice" before hitting water. Ted estimated the layer of crusty snow and slush on top of the ice probably totals another 18 inches or so.

There you have it. We won't be water skiing anytime soon. Our area presently has a weather advisory posted for tomorrow (Thursday) saying to expect a considerable amount of heavy, wet snow and/or freezing rain. We do have fun here in the north country.

This morning I took some pictures of the mountains - Camel's Hump, Mt. Mansfield, the Worcester Range, from the Cabot Plains Cemetery.