Well, there is not much land access to the open water, and I’m not quite keen on walking on ice towards open water. I barely came to terms with the concept of driving trucks on 24″ of ice last year.

Plus that would defeat the whole purpose of testing my new toy!

I’m not positive, but when I looked at buying them it seemed that you either could hook up two 20lb tanks, or just run one side with one. I assume you could possibly work out an adapter to split the line to go to both sides?

The other thing that everyone seemed to say was that you should either use a regulator or filter with 20lb tanks, and turn the gas off at the tank when shutting it down.

I checked the north side of Nokomis by the smaller parking lot on Saturday and there was at best 2″ – I didn’t even want to walk on it to test any further. There was also still open water in the middle of the southern half. By Sunday there was more open water in the middle, and all along the bridge.

How quickly does ice repair with freexing temps – i.e. should the next few days of 18-23 degree nights make it relatively safe to wander out a bit into the 14′ water?

I am located in south minneapolis. The only place I am familiar with that had decent ice (5-6″, but that was before Sunday happened) is Waconia, but that is a bit of a drive. It would likely have plenty of people to follow though. I’m not free until Friday, so I was hoping the cold might open up some options.