Peek wrote:

sdmoulto wrote:

Yes my ice out predictions were in fact in correct !

LOL okay now I know you're high.
 

Have a good season Peek! Best of luck !

Sean

MartinG wrote:

sdmulto, almost everything you have contributed to this 400 post thread has been wrong, irrelevant or taken from others without acknowledging those sources. Not once have you had the humility to recognize this. Likewise your passive aggressive responses do not bring value to this long standing community. Maybe you should find something better to do.

I'm Sorry to hear that Martin. Yes my ice out predictions were in fact in correct !

Rob and Peek,

I mean no offence by this, but do you lads have anything better you could be doing other than scrutinizing blog posts at 1:23 am? Just a thought.

Rob wrote:

sdmoulto wrote:

Anyone with any news on Brent-Cedar Lake? As of last Sunday (6th of May) the Brent Office says they are planning on opening for May 11 this Friday. 

What makes no sense, is that Opeongo was delayed till the 15th today when in fact Opeongo is further ahead with less ice then Cedar?? But no delay or news on Cedar? What??

Maybe I am missing something here but why stress out over this?

You appear to have a decent working of how the Park works and I believe you mentioned that you work within the Park and have friends that work at the Brent Office so why not just pick up the phone or fire of an email and get the information straight from the source?

On an side note, Peek I had such high hopes for you buddy

400 posts no problem, I say at least 450 
 

Notice the last post saying Wendigo is iced up. That's why I was worrying. The Brent permit office doesn't have a public phone number or any cell phone reception on a regular basis. I called their interior Warden but he is in the bush well out of service most days. Brent has a lot different weather sometimes than the rest of the park and the melt is a different pace. As you just heard even a smaller lake such as wendigo still has ice on the Brent road, but it's hard to get updates from them due to the lack of phone reception.Just trying to help out "buddy" .

Peek wrote:

sdmoulto wrote:

all of Algonquin Park will open tomorrow except Opeongo

You answered your own question

Brent is apart of Operations North, which is run out of the Pembroke District Office. It is a completely separate operation from Highway 60, Operations South which is where all information for the Algonquin Park Official Website is obtained. None of that information is any indication of Brent, Achray and Kiosk. Lake Opeongo still holds some ice, and Cedar had about the same amount of ice. So if Opeogno was delayed then Cedar is likely to hold ice still as well. See the possible issue?
 

Coureur des Biere wrote:

totally agree sdmoulto

Im concerned as I am leaving to drive to Brent tomorrow assuming it will open Friday morning but it looks further behind Opeongo...

Very confusing. Really don't want to get to Mattawa and have to turn around and come back to another access point

Its very confusing and stressful eh! This mornings announcement made no sense to me! Opeongo in all reality will likely be open by Friday or Saturday at the LATEST, but Cedar looks a little bit further behind but its supposed to open Friday! Dont know why they delayed Opeongo till Tuesday the 15th when likely it will be open by the 11th or 12th? And no news on Cedar? beats me lol

Just booked 3 nights on my gem Brook Trout lake, couldn't be more excited ! Heading out Sunday May 13- Wednesday May 16, 2018. Couple of info updates for you guys:

1. I was driving up and down Brent Road and Bissett Creek Road Sunday. Bissett Creek Road is in decent shape, few ruts and very minor washouts but accessible even in a car. Brent Road, not so much. Even a capable pick up truck would have difficulties on Sunday.

2.Cedar still is holding onto its ice worse than any other lake in the park now, which is kind of surprising. Plus Brent Road is not accessible. HOWEVER, Modis satellite shows all the lakes on the Brent road and area making pretty fast progress, so im pretty sure Cedar will be good to go by the weekend. 

3. I spoke to a couple friends at the Brent Permit Office, and the logging authorities and road maintenance crews are in the process of working on the Brent Road for opening Friday. As of now, Brent is still planning to open Friday, which I think will happen. They seem to do pretty good work on that road every spring getting it up and running. Hopefully Cedar Lake sheds its ice shortly though.

Cheers everyone, very exciting that trout opener is almost upon us! Now for a cold beer!

Sean
 

I am going to stay the weekend at the cabin in Rolphton this weekend, going to talk to some friends at Brent, if anything super interesting or exciting arises I will let you guys know!

Sean

AO_GordB wrote:

Have you seen the upcoming forecast ? There is potential for a lot to change in a very short period of time, no year is the same and you never know really ,again I will be in the park on Sunday and I'm pretty sure we're gunna have some more significant changes by then ! I'll have some pics to come Sunday !
Sean

I sure have seen the weather forecast. I have also been watching the ice go out in Algonquin Park for over 25 years, and my colleague Jerry has over 30. A few days of hot weather will get things moving but not as dramatically as you might think. Then it cools down again. We really need warm rainy days to start breaking up the ice.

This is a good forecast. Check meteoblue.com for more.

Gord,

I work within parks as well myself, and have lived, worked and cottage within the Ottawa Valley and Algonquin Park. Its an exciting but unsettled time of year! I am going to be doing some fishing/ driving through the corridor and northeast and around the Upper Ottawa Valley this weekend, and Im sure by this weekend we might be able to guess the ice out with more accuracy!