The above pictured stretch of the Assabet River in Stow, MA is fairly representative of the way most of my favorite paddling haunts are looking these days. Photo taken on Friday. Yesterday, upon the arrival of February, I trekked with a group of hardy winter hikers the woods between Walden Pond and Fairhaven Bay in Concord, MA.
An iced-over Walden Pond...
...which was best suited for these ice fishermen...The only stretches of open water I saw were those just downstream of mill dams like this portion of the Assabet River below the dam in Gleasondale...
Closer to the dam a pair of mallards seemed quite content...Though the wait for a big melt will most likely be longer than I'd hoped, it is a bit comforting to realize that meteorological spring is only 26 days away.
So a tip of the hat to this January's ice-building accomplishments and for providing us with more than enough cold mornings, the coldest occurring on the morning of the 22nd...
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