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Post by fisherman on May 30, 2012 16:23:35 GMT -5
I want to let everyone know that the ice has gone out of Blue Mountain Lake.
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austinp
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the next fur season is never far from our minds :)
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Post by austinp on May 30, 2012 16:40:13 GMT -5
when? a month ago, or two?
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Post by bob110 on May 30, 2012 19:13:23 GMT -5
probably about 2 days ago......up there
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austinp
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the next fur season is never far from our minds :)
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Post by austinp on May 30, 2012 19:54:48 GMT -5
wow... that's incredible
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Post by bballou on May 30, 2012 19:58:49 GMT -5
SEEN snow up north in the Hemlocks---- down in a beaver flow 3 weeks ago.
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Post by fisherman on May 30, 2012 22:21:40 GMT -5
The wooly bears has a big stripe. Gonna be a tough winter. Mark my words, ya hear?
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Post by Trapper Jack on May 30, 2012 22:43:39 GMT -5
Still using ice left over from winter to store some cold goods. I knock the large pieces off rock ledges and such where the water drains from mountain. I put it up in saw dust. Be gone by mid June. Root cellar almost cleaned out. Winter long gone. I miss it. I agree with Fisherman. Tough one coming from all I see in the wood.
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Post by wcs on May 31, 2012 9:08:57 GMT -5
I want to let everyone know that the ice has gone out of Blue Mountain Lake. That is amazing
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Post by fisherman on May 31, 2012 13:57:04 GMT -5
Sawdust is a great insulator. Many of the fishing camps in northern Canada still use it in their "ice houses". I've got slides of ice being cut out of Adirondack lakes in mid winter.
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Post by clt on Jun 1, 2012 10:29:42 GMT -5
Sawdust is a great insulator. Many of the fishing camps in northern Canada still use it in their "ice houses". I've got slides of ice being cut out of Adirondack lakes in mid winter. A place we used to go in Quebec did that,they had a building built over a hole in the ground.They would put in sawdust layers between layers of ice and then cover the whole thing over with a couple feet of sawdust.They had old fashioned ice boxes and he would bring you a block of ice every couple of days as you used it up.I got pics somewhere of my grandfather up there in the winter cutting ice with the guy that ran the place,they got to be good friends over the years and did stuff like that together.He used to come down here to deer hunt with my grandfather during a week every fall.
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Post by fisherman on Jun 1, 2012 22:40:12 GMT -5
I remember a lot of that from my younger days, both in Ontario and Quebec. Ice houses,ice boxes, split rail fences, and ladders made from logs. That ice would last well into the warmer months, insulated with that sawdust. Many of the homes in the adirondacks were banked with sawdust up against the foundation also as a means of insulation. I can remember the larger brook trout up in Quebec that were headed for a taxidermist had the measurements taken were photographed, and then were completely skinned with the head left on, then were completely packed in large cans full of salt to preserve them; no freezers were available up in the bush. The largest brookie I ever caught up there had a 10" trout inside of him! The good old days.
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