We decided to declare Saturday, April 27th, 2013, as the day the ice left the lake. That is not entirely true as there were still some big sheets of ice in the south/west end of the lake, but around our place it was open. It was a good day for the dogs as, for the first time in a long time, they were able to run around off-leash without us worrying about them going through thin ice. This ice out is a little more than a month later than it occurred in the spring of 2012.