Today was a work day for Ma and I in Red Wing and out trip there got early so we took a drive thru Old Frontenac via the turn-off a Villa Maria. At the landing, open water stretched a long ways out into the lake and points upstream.
Straight out from the rest area on 61 just upstream from the public launch at Hok-Si-La there was a very large pocket of open water midway across the lake. The ice that is still on the lake looks to be in tough shape now, but I think the ice nearer the foot of the lake is still pretty thick. Won’t be long now and this wet day will have helped a lot.