Winter at the Lodge

Ice Out 2015 Contest

Apr 3, 2015

With the piles of snow slowly disappearing and the sun rising higher into the sky every day, it is only a matter of time before Clearwater Lake is open and free of ice. Every year the staff plays a fun game where we guess the date the ice will be completely gone. This spring we thought we’d open the contest up to all our blog...

The Odds of Aurora

Mar 18, 2015

As an adult there is not much that compares to the excitement of a forecast for aurora borealis that contains the phrase “strongest geomagnetic storm of the current solar cycle. This storm is underway now.” Though forecasts for record breaking blizzards still make me tingle a bit, there is no earth weather forecasts that come close to the level of giddiness...