The calendar says Spring

As I write this, Dr. Tim Hunt and his dogs have probably crossed the finish line of the Iditarod, what an accomplishment. Mary's been keeping a great blog of the experience, go check it out.
Past couple days fro some reason wiped me out with the show we did and prep for show coming up, and I couldn't get the wifi to work in the hotel to blog update, so Yooper Daily is prob gonna quickly become Yooper weekly- at this point that seems more of a reasonable thing for me. My hats off to anyone who can keep a blog daily,, I have failed miserably.
Around here, we are a long way from Spring, although I guess it's techincally calendar Spring, you'd never know it by looking out the window with the exception of the ground becoming visible again in very small patches. Some rivers are starting to loose their ice from the snowmelt, but with Lake Superior choked with ice in many rivermouths, ice jams are a high probability this year. I think the snowmelt is going to be more of a gentle one this year; not like a couple years back where it went literally from winter to summer for a few days, with temps in the 80's quickly melting feet of snowpack, causing the bridge on M-553 to get pulverized by the raging river and flooding closing many stretches of road up here. I remember that year, hiking the Forrestville basin in shin high snow wearing shorts and a t-shirt.

In transition- Lake Superior ice n waves
Hard to believe the ice shacks have to be off the ice next week, wow, April is upon us. Good thing is that the sun is getting warm enough that maybe if good ice is still hanging around well into April, we can get some ice fishing in and get a tan at the same time- why go to Florida when you can have sun n fun on a frozen lake in da UP... positive yooper psychology!