Here's a news flash! The ice went out at Lake Dunmore this morning! I had an e-mail and this photo from Lil Brewster - not sure where she hails from, but we are happy to hear from her. Here's what she wrote: Lake Dunmore Ice Out was this morning at 10:14. Here's a picture of their set-up with "Lord Dunmore". Of course, they are way south of Joe's Pond.

I didn't find much on the Dunmore Ice-Out contest except that it is fashioned after ours here at Joe's Pond and has been operating for only a few years. Their deadline to have tickets in is March 15, so they were caught short, just as we fear we may be. I went to their website, Lake Dunmore/Fern Lake Association There is nothing posted yet about this year's winner, but you'll see their ice-out dates are consistently earlier than ours. In 2010, ours went out on April 5 - theirs went out on March 18; last year our contest wasn't over until April 27 - theirs was over on April 11.

This may give some of you an indication of whether our contest will be over in March to break our record of the earliest Ice-Out being April 5, 2010. Many thanks to Lil Brewster for letting us know about Dunmore's Ice-Out this year.