Anybody traveling the Canadian side?

[JCR]

Would like to get into Redgutbay the latter part of this week. Anybody going up into Redgut from Crowrock? Cheers?, Moosefart?

I expect it will be rough, and slushy, with all the snow, but can you make it OK with a sled?

[Cheers]

I haven't been there yet this year but many other locals have. Snow on the lake is drifting but soft and fluffy. Ice is around 12 inches. Slush is present in the back bays but not deep enough to get stuck in as long as you are reasonable. You will have no problem going to your island . Use caution around Pine narrows .

[Mooseart]

Correct... and don't try to pull a heavy load. The areas out of the wind have the most slush. The slush came up quite a bit today, between sunrise and sunset.

[JCR]

Thanks guy's. We will be coming in from the south, so won't have to worry about Red Pine Narrows. We will come through without the tow, the first time, to check out the slush, and then go back for the tow if OK. Also we are running a extra-long 24 inch track with studs. I don't want to risk getting stuck in slush, I've done that too many times on this route over the last 35 years, and I'm getting too old for it now. Thanks a lot for your comments,

and I will post when I get out.

[Outfitter17]

JCR,

What machine are you running that has a 24 inch wide track?

[JCR]

Ski Doo Skandic SWT. I have the Fan 2 cycle engine so it is not too heavy (around 6 or 7 hundred), and with long, wide ski's, it has a lot of flotation.

[Bigtrout]

Matt,

How's the slush on the Canadia Lakes? Is there a lot of snow? We're going up on the third weekend in January.

Scott

[Mooseart]

In three weeks? Anything can happen! The lake changes are measured in hours, not in weeks.

This morning, with the new snow, many of the frozen sled tracks were slush channels. Also, the drifts are larger and rougher than they have been so far this Winter. On the plus side, there are no significant pressure ridges, today.

[JCR]

Had a good trip into Redgut. The ice was 12 inches thick, and there was about 15 inches of snow, with a lot of slush, but nothing we couldn't plow through (about three or four inches). On our route,there was a patch of slush about 50 yards long every quarter mile or so. I had my choice to plow through it or bounce through it, in a previous frozen sled slush channel. More comfortable to plow but safer to bounce.