Last crossing

Making the decision for when the last crossing of the ice will be is always difficult.  Is it safe?  Will it be safe tomorrow?  Or, how about if we just go now?

 

Kate and I decided to go late Sunday afternoon.  We could have taken the snowmachine...there was lots of ice.  The problem with driving across the lake is that you don't get to see very much.  You don't get a good feel for the ice.  And perhaps if the ice did something weird that it has never done before that might be a problem...you don't know that until it's too late. 

 

We took the canoe along as a sled for our stuff. and to act as a bridge just in case we came to a pressure crack that we weren't comfortable crossing.