PHOTOS: Harvesting ice on Squam Lake
Alan White of Wells, Maine uses an ice pike to guide blocks of ice harvested from Squam Lake at Rockywold and Deephaven Camps; Thursday, February 7, 2013.
(ALEXANDER COHN / Monitor staff)The ice crew uses a chainsaw to separate blocks already sawed into cubes. Staff and volunteers harvest ice from Squam Lake at Rockywold Deephaven Camps; Thursday, February 7, 2013.
(ALEXANDER COHN / Monitor staff)Rockywold Deephaven Camps maintenance staffers Douglas Adams and James "Mac" MacComas move blocks of ice into the Rockywold ice house for use over the summer season; Thursday, February 7, 2013. The ice house holds 100 tons of blocks, stacked about ten layers tall. "On the third day , you wake up and can't move your shoulders," says fellow-staffer Keith Hosking.
(ALEXANDER COHN / Monitor staff)The harvest crew uses ice pikes to direct cut blocks to the waiting truck Rockywold Deephaven Camps; Thursday, February 7, 2013. The cliffs of West Rattlesnake Mountain can be seen over Bennett Cove, where the camps are located.
(ALEXANDER COHN / Monitor staff)A saw cuts through the foot-thick ice of Squam Lake
Staff and volunteers harvest ice from Squam Lake at Rockywold Deephaven Camps on Bennett Cove for use in the camps ice houses in the summer; Thursday, February 7, 2013. 100 tons of ice is loaded into each of the two ice houses for use in ice boxes in the individual cabins.
(ALEXANDER COHN / Monitor staff)David White (left) works with Rockywold Deephaven Camps staff and volunteers to harvest ice from Bennett Cove on Squam Lake; Thursday, February 7, 2013. White uses eight tons of ice blocks in an ice house at his Sandwich home as refrigeration.
(ALEXANDER COHN / Monitor staff)Sunlight filters through a block of ice waiting to be loaded onto a truck at Rockywold Deephaven Camps; Thursday, February 7, 2013. The camp uses 200 tons of ice blocks, harvested over three days for their cabins' ice boxes over the summer season.
(ALEXANDER COHN / Monitor staff)Staff and volunteers harvest ice from Squam Lake at Rockywold and Deephaven Camps on Bennett cove; Thursday, February 7, 2013.
(ALEXANDER COHN / Monitor staff)A truck takes a load of ice blocks to the Rockywold Ice house; Thursday, February 7, 2013.
(ALEXANDER COHN / Monitor staff)Rockywold Deephaven Camps staffers, from left: Keith Hosking, Douglas Adams and James "Mac" McComas take a break in the Rockywold ice house between truck-loads of ice blocks; Thursday, February 7, 2013. The ice house holds 100 tons of blocks, stacked about ten layers tall. "On the third day , you wake up and can't move your shoulders," says Hosking.
(ALEXANDER COHN / Monitor staff)Sunlight filters through a block of ice waiting to be loaded onto a truck at Rockywold Deephaven Camps; Thursday, February 7, 2013. The camp uses 200 tons of ice blocks, harvested over three days for their cabins' ice boxes over the summer season.
(ALEXANDER COHN / Monitor staff)
“I’ve been doing this for 68 years,” says Norman Lyford of Ashland as he pushes blocks of ice through a narrow channel in the foot-thick ice on Lake Winnipesaukee yesterday. The one-time staff member of Rockywold and Deephaven Camps on the northern shore of the lake returns every year to help with the three-day ice harvest, wielding a 10-foot-long ice pike. The summer destination does not use refrigerators in its cabins, but ice boxes instead.
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