Ice report from Dave Patchett and Ryan Hellyer …
The ice is rapidly melting. We had a brief skate in the gorge but were only a few meters or so from open water, which was slowly approaching as the morning moved on. The section of ice we were on was approximately 50 mm thick but reasonably smooth as the warm temperatures had done a god job of resurfacing it.
The middle basin had a skim of ice with a layer of water on top, but most of the two channels was liquid as was the entire bottom basin.
Updated 10:24pm 17th July. Added more photos.
That’s not good news……. I have been telling people its probably one of the only places with ice at the moment.
Yeah, it’s a little disappointing. Not impossible that we could get another freeze though so haven’t given up hope.