Ice Harvest 2010

If you follow the webcam you've noticed us snow blowing the lake. It's not for ice skating, it's for ice cutting. We will be putting up ice for next summer in our ice house in the barn. So in August when it's 85F we can enjoy some of our homemade root beer with ice out of the lake.

Over the last 2 weeks we've been keeping an eye on the ice, drilling, and cutting it up. Right now it's the right thickness and ready to cut. It's 15" thick now and the ice cakes will be 15"x 15"x30" when finished. We'll need around 100 cakes to fill the ice house.

So keep watching, we'll take photos and post some video to youtube. The first annual Chesuncook Lake Ice Harvest begins!