Aleknagik, November 26, 2012 (ice) Our lake froze weird again this year.
Observation: Our lake froze weird again this year. It froze from the nearest two points, which are not in the pictures I took, and two days later the bravest of the North shore people walked across to my side. Normally our lake freezes from the Island located North of where my house is to my side of the lake. That part froze later.
Our Village Public Safety Officer (VPSO) started testing the thickness of the ice; walking with an ice-pick on the 22nd of this month, and finally on Sunday the 25th he and a bunch of volunteers put trees to mark where it was safe to cross from the North side of our lake to my side with both 4-wheelers and snow-machines.
Consult: This observation has been shared with the ice research team at the UAF Geophysical Institute.
