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MartyMabe 
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 Topic: Bayfield Inn WisconsinPosted: February-25-2013 at 8:38pm |
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Hey Guys, being a southerner-- I just can't fathom this. Is this one of the Great Lakes frozen over right here and people are driving over it?? |
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Riley
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Posted: February-25-2013 at 8:50pm |
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People drive on the ice Marty. They also go through the ice and sink when it's not thick enough.
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Posted: February-25-2013 at 8:59pm |
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I see what looks like snowmobile tracks. I can't tell if the marked line further out is a plowed road or a pressure ridge. The pressure ridges are very dangerous and the cause of many vehicles going through the ice. I will drive on Minnesota lakes, but you would not catch me on a great lake, way too much shifting ice. On the north shore of superior I have gone to bed on a 20 below night listening to waves crash from the open lake, and then woke up to ice as far as I could see. nature is awe inspiring powerful.
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For thousands of years men have felt the irresistible urge to go to sea, and many of them died. Things got better after they invented boats.
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Posted: February-25-2013 at 9:25pm |
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There is at least 1 jeep Cherokee sunk somewhere out on Lake Erie according to Eric Lavine
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Gary S
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Posted: February-25-2013 at 9:46pm |
Other times they fall in Marty and let a boater find it,usually someone with an I/O 
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john b
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Posted: February-25-2013 at 10:20pm |
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I visit Bayfield several times each year. It is a really nice old harbor town. Bayfield is about a 90 minute drive from my summer place (we go there sometimes in the winter too). It is a nice drive if you haven't experienced it. Driving the Ice Road is the only way residents can get between Bayfield and Madeline Island in the winter.. It has quite a bit of traffic on it at times.
BTW, as the saying goes, you are never more than 700 feet from solid ground..... straight down. Bayfield to Madeline Island ice road Bayfield to Madeline Island drive Here it is in the summer when I used to boat in Lake Superior in my 15' Mark Twain I/O.  looking back at Bayfield.  Madeline Island Yacht Club. |
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Posted: February-25-2013 at 10:43pm |
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Marty,
You've never watched IRT?  I drive the ice when conditions are good for it. Up north, I can get over to Charlies (Brady) house in 5 minutes instead of 25 minutes by road in winter.
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Gary S
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Posted: February-25-2013 at 11:04pm |
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Some of us would just go out for a ride Marty
 
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Posted: February-26-2013 at 12:19am |
Gary, you dont always need ice to go for a winter ride! 
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Posted: February-26-2013 at 12:23am |
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Marty,
My son took this pic on Lake Winnebego (Osh Kosh WI) last weekend... about 3 miles from shore..  |
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Posted: February-26-2013 at 1:02am |
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The school bus that serves Madeline Island during the transition seasons is quite unusual.
 Madeline Island is the only one of Wisconsin’s Apostle Islands that is inhabited and it is connected to Bayfield on the mainland by ferry in the summer and by a two-mile ice highway in the winter when the waters of Lake Superior freeze over. However, during that transitional stage, when the ice is not strong enough to support a vehicle, the connection is serviced by ice boats with air propellers. How else would the kids get to school? |
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Posted: February-26-2013 at 1:26am |
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Marty, up here in the winter we put our beers in a cooler to keep them from freezin'
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Posted: February-26-2013 at 3:00am |
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boy spring better not be to far off...I am getting worried for some of you guys.
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