GeorgianBayGuy Posted January 2, 2018 Share Posted January 2, 2018 Anyone in the Honey Harbour area know the status of the ice on GB, specifically the tree lines running north? Any updates welcome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
02Sled Posted January 2, 2018 Share Posted January 2, 2018 I don't know about the tree line but I believe the ice breaker is scheduled to go through on Saturday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeorgianBayGuy Posted January 2, 2018 Author Share Posted January 2, 2018 Thanks for the response 02Sled. Not Midland, I mean the tree lines to Beausouil and Minnicog area. We have a cottage in Go Home Bay and I want to avoid trailering to Gala. We do love the rip to Midland tho using the non sanctioned route you are concerned about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AceRacer Posted January 2, 2018 Share Posted January 2, 2018 According to the GBSR facebook page, there's a freighter scheduled to arrive in Midland either the 1st or the 2nd. I suspect they'll put the tree lines out once the last commercial shipping ends. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
02Sled Posted January 2, 2018 Share Posted January 2, 2018 https://www.simcoe.com/news-story/8029969-coast-guard-at-midland-for-icebreaking-operations/ To occur approximately between Jan 2 and Jan 4. Hopefully nobody tries to out run the icebreaker on their sled this year Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
02Sled Posted January 2, 2018 Share Posted January 2, 2018 13 hours ago, GeorgianBayGuy said: Thanks for the response 02Sled. Not Midland, I mean the tree lines to Beausouil and Minnicog area. We have a cottage in Go Home Bay and I want to avoid trailering to Gala. We do love the rip to Midland tho using the non sanctioned route you are concerned about. That tree line is put out by the locals and not the snowmobile club. We had a request a couple of years ago for the club to put out stakes. That would carry with it some degree of liability. We did offer that if one of the locals wanted to put out stakes rather than trees we had some stakes available they could use but that isn't what the person was looking for. They wanted to assume responsibility for it and that wasn't something we were able to do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave K Posted January 2, 2018 Share Posted January 2, 2018 As someone who hasnt been up that way, what is the tree line? I assume it isnt a line of trees along a fence row like it is in D9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yukon Posted January 2, 2018 Share Posted January 2, 2018 14 minutes ago, Dave K said: As someone who hasnt been up that way, what is the tree line? I assume it isnt a line of trees along a fence row like it is in D9 It's all old Christmas trees used to mark the long ice crossings on Georgian bay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PISTON LAKE CRUISER Posted January 2, 2018 Share Posted January 2, 2018 12 minutes ago, Dave K said: As someone who hasnt been up that way, what is the tree line? I assume it isnt a line of trees along a fence row like it is in D9 Dave its evergreen branches or small evergreen trees that stand up in holes drilled in the ice. It is something to go by if you are out there in bad visibility. It indicates that someone thinks the ice is strong enough for travel along it at the start of the winter but in the spring the branches disappear when the ice melts so no one has the risk of taking them out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Viperules700 Posted January 2, 2018 Share Posted January 2, 2018 4 minutes ago, PISTON LAKE CRUISER said: Dave its evergreen branches or small evergreen trees that stand up in holes drilled in the ice. It is something to go by if you are out there in bad visibility. It indicates that someone thinks the ice is strong enough for travel along it at the start of the winter but in the spring the branches disappear when the ice melts so no one has the risk of taking them out. How many km's is tree line typically? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PISTON LAKE CRUISER Posted January 2, 2018 Share Posted January 2, 2018 4 minutes ago, Viperules700 said: How many km's is tree line typically? Depends on where they are going and what phaze the moon is in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
02Sled Posted January 2, 2018 Share Posted January 2, 2018 40 minutes ago, Viperules700 said: How many km's is tree line typically? Good question... Its quite a distance. The two I typically follow are quite a distance. From the south end of Beausoleil Island to Midland is one and the other to Penetang. There are others that are north of Beausoleil but I don't typically go that way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Viperules700 Posted January 2, 2018 Share Posted January 2, 2018 4 minutes ago, 02Sled said: Good question... Its quite a distance. The two I typically follow are quite a distance. From the south end of Beausoleil Island to Midland is one and the other to Penetang. There are others that are north of Beausoleil but I don't typically go that way. That is allot of Xmas trees and branches. I always thought they threw them away lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grover_yyz Posted January 2, 2018 Share Posted January 2, 2018 I am curious as to why a US icebreaker is breaking ice around Midland? Does Canada/Ontario not own an ice breaker and do it ourselves? Jerry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Viperules700 Posted January 2, 2018 Share Posted January 2, 2018 5 minutes ago, grover_yyz said: I am curious as to why a US icebreaker is breaking ice around Midland? Does Canada/Ontario not own an ice breaker and do it ourselves? Jerry Probably escorting ship in from us would be my guess. Going to be needed to get it back too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
02Sled Posted January 2, 2018 Share Posted January 2, 2018 They share duties depending on proximity at the time is what I have been told. That's an old video. I believe what has been published for this year is the Canadian Ice Breaker. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave K Posted January 3, 2018 Share Posted January 3, 2018 23 hours ago, PISTON LAKE CRUISER said: Dave its evergreen branches or small evergreen trees that stand up in holes drilled in the ice. It is something to go by if you are out there in bad visibility. It indicates that someone thinks the ice is strong enough for travel along it at the start of the winter but in the spring the branches disappear when the ice melts so no one has the risk of taking them out. Thats cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kennyb Posted January 15, 2018 Share Posted January 15, 2018 Hi All, Resurecting this post...with the thaw and freeze the ice should be in better shape (less slush)...does anyone know if the tree lines/stakes from Midland and Penetang to Beausoleil are in? Yukon....02sled you guys are local and have been great with updates......any firsthand knowledge?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
02Sled Posted January 15, 2018 Share Posted January 15, 2018 55 minutes ago, kennyb said: Hi All, Resurecting this post...with the thaw and freeze the ice should be in better shape (less slush)...does anyone know if the tree lines/stakes from Midland and Penetang to Beausoleil are in? Yukon....02sled you guys are local and have been great with updates......any firsthand knowledge?? I haven't been out on the ice of Georgian Bay yet. I have only been out on the trails on the weekend of the 6th. The ice breaker had been into Midland Harbour just days before so I wasn't heading out. The OPP were also warning at that time of large pressure cracks opening up. Apparently the high winds had been tough on the ice in a number of places. You get the waves from open water creating swells for quite some distance under the ice and heaving it up making cracks. I had also heard of there being some open water popping up with the cracking and shifting of ice. I haven't heard what it's like since the thaw. Having said that the ice just north of the township park in Port Severn hadn't been that thick that early in a long time before the thaw. We were running from my friends place on Yellowhead Island to the Amco without any slush or concerns. The winds had kept the snow off and it made for lots of ice during the deep freeze. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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