Date: 04/14/2011

Number: 1

Lake Minnetonka in Hennepin County, Minnesota


""Ice-out'' on Lake Minnetonka, a marker that winter is behind us, arrived at 6 a.m. Thursday, according to the Hennepin County Sheriff's Office.


The determination is made when a boat can be piloted through the "narrows" around Big Island and back to the sheriff's water patrol unit in Spring Park.


This method has been used since 1855 for lake boat captains to start the warm-weather navigation season. But the declaration does not mean the lake is completely free of ice."



Read the article and thanks to the Star Tribune in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota.

Mound, MN

Latitude: 44.9 Longitude: -93.6

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