Frozen Lake Hike

We hope the cold streak broke a little for the "Northerners" in Wisconsin. Last we heard it was -11...Brrr! After a week in the low single digits it was a balmy 54F here so we decided to take a break from studying (And The Fireplace!) and head out to Thousand Hills State Park to hike while we could.
The dogs were REALLY excited to get out and play in the open spaces as well. Aside from some short walks around town (literally) they really needed some outside time, as did we! We walked around part of Forest Lake, then thought "Why not just walk ON the lake?". The ice was at least a foot thick so we took a couple of picture of us and the dogs. The tilted photo is due to the lack of anything to set the camera on since we were in the middle of the lake! We ended up walking all the way across the lake since it was so thick. Before you freak out, we were very careful to check the thickness first. The ice was so clear you could see frozen leaves on the bottom of it, and cracks from the freeze/thaw cycles. It was pretty fun...:)


We also took a panorama of the lake while we were standing the in the middle of it...kind of neat to say that...:) You can click on the picture below to go to my album, then click the magnifying glass to see a larger, more detailed image. I haven't figured out how to link directly to the large image yet..