Above: Westchester Lagoon: April 14th, 2004 11:45 AM ADT.
A sure sign of Spring is the Annual Westchester Lagoon Ice Classic. This year is the third edition of our little tradition. The ice prognosticators have been gauging the temperature gradients, pondering the insulating effects of our near record snow fall, weather trends, geese flying by, astrology charts, etc. All in attempt to win this year's Ice Classic.
So - get ready to guess. And you'd better hurry. The ice might go out early again this year. You want to be sure to get your ice-out-of-here date entered in the contest.
Rules:
- The participant must guess the date the ice goes out of the Lagoon.
- Each participant gets only one guess.
- Date for entries closes at 11:59 PM ADT on April 25th, 2004.
- A guess consists of just a date - no time. I refuse to install a timing tripod on the Lagoon.
- I will check the ice several times each day.
- ALL the ice must go out. It sometimes goes out in chunks - but chunks don't count.
- Participants must supply their e-mail address. This is so I can contact you if you win.
- If more than one person guesses the winning date, each winner will get a full prize - up to 4 winners. If there are more than 4 winners, the winning 4 will be selected based upon earliest entry into the contest.
- All judge's decisions are final and I (Steph) am the judge.
- Ah - the prize. It's a good one - a $25 gift certificate to Amazon.
Voting:
- Voting will be done through the comments feature.
- The voting comments button is at the bottom of this post.
- Click on the comments button and submit your vote.
- The cool thing is that everyone will be able to see everyone else's vote - hopefully there will be a lot of them.
Notes and Hints:
- Last year the ice went out very very early, April 24th.
- Two years ago, the ice went out quite late: May 10th.
- Last year's winners were Brad Yeary and Phil Ackley.
- I've not seen anyone walking on the ice for about a week.
- The section of Chester Creek just East of Spenard Road is mostly open. For you non-Anchorage-ites, Chester Creek feeds into the Lagoon.
- There is an open lead at the East end of the Lagoon. It's about 50 feet in diameter
- If I got to vote, I'd vote for May 2. (Same date I voted for for the past two years.)
So vote away.
CLICK ON THE COMMENT LINK RIGHT BELOW TO VOTE:
8:46:41 PM 
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