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5/18/12
- Lost Boat Key:
With the excitement of getting the boat wet
yesterday, I seemed to have misplaced my
boat key when I was leaving the landing.
It is a simple single key on a pink and
white floating key chain. Please let
me know if you hear of anyone finding it. -
Jay
(Report
lost items to the link above. Larry)
5/17/12 - Haggard Breakup
Photos
Southport, Big Lake
South Big Lake Road overlook
Looking at Burnt Point
L. Taylor Photos from 5/13/12
Another trip the wind shifted ice
against the shore.
Some of the shards were 12 inches long.
and the ice was hard to break through
Mud Lake Landing
Flat Lake from Dan and Barbie Hall's lot
Big Lake overlook on South Big Lake Road
Big Lake from Southport
4/27/12
Jen
Stackhouse was one of the folks riding out
in a pontoon boat watching them burn down
the Call-of-the-Wild. She had the presence
of mind, however, to collect the beams from
the Call before the Big Burn, and has
offered them to the community. Flat Lake is
considering using them, as we are running
out of the bar from the Sheep Creek Lodge,
to make trophies for the Flat Lake Gourmet
Ski-in Picnic. Did you ever staple a dollar
bill or a photo to the Call-of-the-Wild
beams and do you have a story about The
Call? Send it
here
and
I'll publish it on this front page. - Larry
Taylor
4/20/12
Anna Violette Message
Hi
Larry I was hoping you could post a REMINDER
to all Flatlakers that its that time of year
when you need to tie up your dogs. I just
watched one struggling to walk across the
lake and wade through the water. I don't
ever want to watch one drown! Please keep
your dogs off the lake... Thank You!! Anna
4/12/12
Jake had a grizzly in his yard this morning.
I hope
everyone has their garbage and pets secure.
We had three grizzly cubs around last fall,
so it would be good not to have the cabins
of interest to them. I wonder if it was one
of the cubs. I said as much to Lynn, who
forwarded me the photos and she wrote,
"Probably.
Jake
said it was making all kinds of racket - he
thinks it may have been calling for his mom
- kind of hard to get into a bear's head
though." - Larry
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Ice thickness safety
chart. (Does not apply to rotten ice!)
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Visiting
Southeast Alaska?
Stay at the Sitka
International Hostel - year round.
Flat
Lake Snow totals
'11-'12: 96.00 inches
'10-'11: 42.25 inches
'09-'10: 76.50 inches
'08-'09: 98.50 inches
'07-'08: 73.25 inches
'06-'07: 46.00 inches
High 5/27/11 79.3 ºF
High 7/9/10 81.0 ºF
High 7/7/09 88.7 ºF
High 7/4/08 81.7 ºF
High 6/21/07 85.5 ºF
Low
1/1/12 -20 ºF
Low 1/16/11 - 24.0 ºF
Low 11/16/09 - 20.0 ºF
Low 1/1/09 - 40.0 ºF
Low 2/3/08 - 25.1 ºF
Low 1/9/07 - 33.0 ºF
AK
Mining Alaska Webcams
(So we can see what the weather's like in
Anchorage)
Alaska
Road Traveler Information Service
Request Free Alaska Highway Map
Aurora
Forecast
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It
is always a good day, though,
when we get to go to the cabin.
- Steve Wright, Crooked Lake
Flat Lake, Alaska
5/18/12
34 F and blue sky at 6:00 AM.
Jan Stackhouse says people are boating on the west end
of Big Lake.
5/17/12
Haggard Ice Report
These pictures were taken this evening around 7:30-
it’s looking good for boating this weekend.
Temperatures in the 60’s this afternoon, accompanied
by a breeze, took out a lot of the ice. Earlier
in the afternoon, Wes flew over the lake and estimated
that there was about a 50/50 ratio of ice to water.
Around the same time, it took Mike Beck 40 minutes to
get from our island to the channel through floating
ice- some of it still white and pretty solid. A
few hours later, conditions had changed dramatically.
Flat Lake is almost all ice free- there's a band of
ice near the channel that's about 50 yards wide.
There are still large areas of ice on Big Lake, but it
sure looks like the water is winning. It looked
like Burkeshore has a bunch of boats in the water, but
there’s still a large area of ice floating between
Burkeshore and Southport, from where the one photo was
taken. Hopefully the remaining ice will
disappear quickly. We will be launching pontoons
boats in Big Lake tomorrow. Happy summer!
There's
a large grizzly on the north shore. A number of people
have seen it's tracks. Keep your pets and loved ones
close. LT
Larry,
Please
add to the brown bear post that a man was mauled by
one in Eagle River because he was hiking and surprised
it. Obviously it isn't the same bear, but some
of us do take our pets for walks on trails around the
lake.
Thank
you so much,
Jennifer
http://www.adn.com/2012/05/13/
2463577/brown-bear-attacks-
eagle-river.html
Tonight
on the north bound lane of the Glen Hwy flats,
either a black or brown bear ran across the road in
front of us, and across the south bound lane. Bill
thinks it was a brown bear. By the time I saw it
running, I couldn't tell, but it was big!
Jennifer
5/15/12
Lesser Yellowlegs at Mud Lake Landing
5/15/12
Loon and ice on Flat Lake.
5/13/12
The Flat Lake loon is back so this must be SUMMER!
5/13/12 Haggard Ice Report
We
were able to make it to our island by boat Friday
evening, but it wasn’t easy. We wouldn’t
have been able to break through with our boat if Craig
hadn’t led the way, breaking through with his 16’
Lund with a 70 hp outboard, equipped with his ice chop
prop (patent pending!) Bill and Maggie put their
jet boat in, and Peg did, too, so we had 4 boats in
our flotilla. The ice is still really solid out
there. We traveled the north shore, where there
was open water, then ran down the roads where the ice
was either gone or pretty rotten. Usually the
lake breaks up pretty quickly after we’re able to
bust our way in with a boat, but not this year.
We lost some ice over the weekend, but not much.
We did spot the Flat Lake loon on Friday, though, so
all’s well with the world. I’m still
expecting the ice to be pretty much gone by next
weekend, but we’ll see! - Carolyn Haggard (photos
follow)
Vehicles
That Broke Through The Ice
Snowfall this winter was short of '08/'09 by 2.5
inches.
Nice
USGS earthquake map with clickable local reports.
Aurora
Forecast
Big
Lake Weather (Wunderground)
IPS
Meteostar for the radar weather map
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Loon nesting on Scott and Rachel's Island
6/29/08
Excerpts from an Alaskan writer's
manuscript, The Freezing of Lakes, Flying
Squirrels, Ice Puppy photos, and Iced
In:
Back
To The Woods, On Flat Lake Time.
Samples of each of the Elements in the Periodic
Table that are safe to display excite
mineralologists and chemists at the
Alaska
Museum of Natural History
The display was built to order and donated
by the
Alaska Section of the American Chemical Society.
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