Thursday, May 15, 2014

Ice Moves, Cracking Up and Summer Staff

Finally! The past week have seen big changes taking place here at Rockwood Lodge. Most of the snow in gone as is over half of the ice that has been covering Poplar Lake. The Forest Service reports that many of the lakes to the west of us, like Seagull Lake, are ice free.

Two days ago the ice started to move off Poplar Lake. We were out making our lists of work that needed to be done here at the Lodge when we heard a loud cracking noise coming from down by the lake.  A strong west wind pushed a large section of ice up against the docks in front of the Lodge. The cracking sound that we heard was the when the boards used to brace the legs of the dock started breaking. Repairing the docks was added to our list of needed repair work.
 
Open Water and Docks To Repair   5/15/2014
Our summer staff spend opener weekend with us and gave us a good start on our spring cleaning. Joe plans to return full time next week.  Maggie will be here for the Memorial Day weekend and will be back with us full time in early June. Maggie is a school teacher and Joe has as a story about the Pagami Fire that will be coming out this summer in the Boundary Waters Journal. Lin and I are really looking forward to turning over the Lodge to them and getting a few hours of "personal leave" later this summer.    

Cleaning Cabin 9
Almost Done


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