It’s almost spring, and that means it’s time for the ice to go from our lake. Mullett Lake is always the last to freeze up here, and the last to thaw. It’s surprising that the ice is starting to melt so quickly this year, but we have had a relatively mild (low snow) winter and warm temperatures the last couple of weeks.
The ice never leaves without a fight, though. It melts around the shore first, then the wind will blow it back and forth across the lake, up and down the length of the lake, and whenever it comes back across and reaches landfall, it punishes the shoreline a bit. If you have any landscaping or structures left near the waterline, it is in grave danger at this time of the year. Usually, after a week or so of this going back and forth, the ice blows away one day, never to return. There have been theories that it simply sinks to the bottom of the lake, and that COULD explain why the lake seems to be getting shallower…
