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Ice Fest is almost upon us! Mark your calendars and clear your schedule to make sure you can attend this event.

In it's fifth year, the Fest continues to grow. More sponsors, more clinics, more fun! If you're an ice climber, you'll love the Ice Fest. If you aren't an Ice Climber, you'll love the presentations and other clinics available from skijoring to ski pulk demos to winter camping clinics.

Make sure you get to Sandstone for the Ice Fest Dec 11-13 2009. It's a really a great time and worth the drive to The Stone. See you at the Gas Light!

The weather station at Carlsona blew out her anemometer recently and a new one costs about $150 to replace it.  With a rating of 24 months, it's something that will need to be replaced after blowing constantly and keeping us all up to date on what's happening on the lake.  It was suggested I add a Paypal donate button here to make it easy for us to get this done.  We started discussing in the forum and started kickin in $10 each, but feel free to donate whatever you like.

UPDATE:

We've got the goods.  I found one for $130 and we had just that.  So it's just been ordered and hopefully on its way soon.  Here are the people to thank for helping to get everyone weather information from Carlsona:

Seth Downs
Jeff Engel
Denis Foo Kune
Mark Henderson
Donald McMillan
Scott Fritzsch

Thank those guys at the beach and anytime you get a chance.  They made it possible to keep the station going.  If you have guilt you were too slow and want to contribute for future maintenance, either email us at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or put that feeling away until the next time we need to rally for the station.  I'm hoping to get up there tueday to get it done if it comes in time.  Thanks guys, you rock!

  This Labor Day weekend Emily and I packed her car plump full and headed out to Nebraska to see friends and kite and camp at Lake McCounaghy near Ogallala, NE.  You wouldn't think Nebraska would be a great kite destination, but you would be wrong.  While we were there our friends from Colorado were there and we even met a kiter from Missouri.  Huge white sandy beaches and wide open spaces make it great place to travel to.

Melissa, Scotti-Squirrel,  Alon, and my self  headed North for the long Memorial weekend to hit the big, deep waves at Sturgeon Falls on the Winnipeg River. The river was high, running about 70,000 cfs. That made for some big waves, big surf, and some of the craziest eddies that I have had to deal with at Sturgeon.

Click read more to hear more about the trip!