Warm Weather What?

Thanks to the team tonight.
We, ... Kris, Claire, Craig, Austin, Kurt, Adrian (short visit, but beer), put down three coats on the lower, two on the upper tonight.

Total Coats
13 Upper
9 Lower

Last Year, December 4th 2016!...

...December 04 Last Year 2016!





Everyone tonight brought down the IceGuy Advent Calendar beers. We are meeting again Thursday night at 8 pm to flood. If you couldn't make it tonight, see you and your beer Thursday night.

Weather looks bad for us in the next 14 days. So Flood Fest is now around the second week of Decemeber. I will contact our sponsors Village Brewery and Spolumbos for the annual Flood Fest donations. Please support them throughout the year when possible.

IceGuys Minutes Tonight... and there is a lot of minutes:

Big thanks to the great number of IceGuys that helped out tonight cleaning and flooding the two rinks with two coats.
From left to right on first photo;
Mark (the new guy from Mt Pleasant), Adrian, Andrew P., Craig, Jeff, Andy.

From left to right on second photo;
Adrian, Kurt, Andrew P., Craig, Jeff, Andy.
Mark (the new guy from Mt Pleasant - taking photo)

Not in photo, but a great moral supporter after we flooded 2 coats and put all equipment away...
KRIS!!

Flood Count:
12 upper
9 lower


Tonights Minutes;

1. Beer Advent Calendar... Iceguys will discuss via email.
2. Keys to Ice Guys access to Hall... Iceguys will discuss via email.
3. Flood Fest in December...Iceguys will discuss via email. (Jeff setting up Calendar).
4. http://www.cbc.ca/radio/popup/audio/listen.html?autoPlay=true&clipIds=&mediaIds=1099979331632&contentarea=news&subsection1=regions&subsection2=regions&subsection3=calgary&subsection4=eyeopener&contenttype=audio



Keeping the hose on the ice,
Kurt

NOZZLE GOES ON TONIGHT!

Great work everyone!

We are off to a great start this year earliest in recorded history, and very nice ice in 12 days.
Claire, Phillipe (new guy that Claire recruited), Austin, John, Kris and Kurt put down two coats on the lower, and one coat around the newly formed Whopsie Doodles.
 Flood Count:
10 coats lower
7 coats upper

We are planning our annual Flood Fest but need some input on the date! Typically it has been on a Friday COLD Friday. We have the luxury of early ice so we can be a little picky on choosing a day.
End of November might be best!
We can also make the beer advant calendars that night as well if we have the time.

Next flood day is Monday next week. Normal flooding now Monday and Thursday nights at 8 pm. The timer is set so the light tomorrow go on at 5:30-11:59pm.

Keeping the hose on the ice,
Kurt

Schools Out...

Day 9

I couldn't post last night (DAY 8)
With heavy shovels and heavy scraping, Claire, Craig, Ian and Kurt spent 2 hours clearing before flooding one coat on each.
8 coats upper
6 coats lower

 Thanks to Nick's Steak House and Pizza, and Mark Petros for the perfect Pizza Pies.

Tonight (DAY 9)
Thanks to Jeff,  Adrian and Kurt (Kris showed up after for a beer)
 Now coat count (CC)

9 coats upper
7 coats lower

Both coats with nozzle off for volume. Might consider putting nozzle on during lower flooding.

Q: Is this the earliest skateable ice since 2005?
A: We believe so.

Need help tomorrow Wednesday night at 8 PM.

Keeping the hose on the ice,
Kurt

Day 6

Great turn out
one coat on each rink tonight.
7 upper
5 lower

John, Kris, Austin, Jeff, Craig, Claire, and Kurt greeted a very special guest tonight. You might all remember Bud. Nice to see you Bud.

We are going tomorrow night and taking the weekend off in Remembrance Day weekend.
Monday at 9 PM.


See you Friday night tomorrow,

Cheers,
Kurt

 WHO IS THIS GUY?!

Day 5

Thanks to Claire, Kris, Craig, Andy and Jeff for putting down major volumes of water last night.
Upper now 6 coats
Lower now 4 coats

We are getting close to a possible record time for the ice. Great bunch of volunteers!

See you tonight!!!

Kurt

Day 4

Thanks to the Tuesday crew:
Kris
Austin
Ian
Andrew and Kurt

For now 4.5 coats on lower (0.5 was Kris' solo flood before we all got there)
3 coats upper

See you Wednesday or tomorrow,

Kurt

Day 3

Hard to believe in only three days since Grant nearly getting busted for stunting in the park, we may have skatable ice by the end of the week.
Last night we put laid down a coat on each now;
Upper 2 coats
Lower 3 coats


Temperature is fantastic at -13ºC

We are going every night, so hope to see most of you out there. Tonight we need some help.

Keeping the hose on the ice,

Kurt

First Flood

Great start this winter!
We packed the snow Saturday and let it firm up overnight. Sunday afternoon Nov. 05th we flooded the lower ice x2 and upper x1.
Thanks to Claire, Kris, Craig, Willem, Austin, Andy, John, Ian, Andrew P., Jamie.

Hope more of you can keep coming out for the rest of this week. We plan to go every night this week around 8 pm if you can help out.

Cheers
Kurt

Packing Base....

The winter came in quick this year. It was raining on October 31, 2017 and we have enough snow and temperature is staying cold which has allowed us to start packing the base this afternoon.

Officially Closed...

The warm four days has the ice condition skatable on Monday afternoon, to having a river running through it on Thursday.
Attached are photos taking today showing how the parking lot run-off adds to the destruction of the east end.

We plan to do some improvements to the sidewalk area this fall and this information is good to assess diverting the parking lot water away from flooding the ice. Below is a photo showing water moving in the path of least resistance to our east end.

Looks like Friday March 24th at around 6:30 pm works for most of us to celebrate our efforts and organize the shed, and have some beer and pizza.
So far I have received 6 YES's looking to hear from more of you.

Cheers,
Kurt

We had a safety meeting tonight...

Above is Jeff's son Oakley on the ice after school today. This is probably the last day of good skating ice of the year! Shinny is a GO tomorrow, but will be soft ice.

Ian and Kurt enjoyed a relaxing pint in the basement tonight conducting the annual safety meeting Monday. We both agree that the season looks to be over now. We would like "a-show-of-hands" for a wrap up party Friday March 24th?
Who is in?

Way to Go Calgary Flames Win over PIT in a shoot out! Play-off are in the future.

Taking the hose off the ice,

Kurt

Snow Snow Snow...

The snow last night prevented Ian, Craig and Kurt from flooding.
If anyone has some time Saturday AM to help clear, I will bring down my blower to work on making it skatable for the weekend.

This cold flooding weather has prolonged out season so much we are looking to have the wrap up party in April after Spring break.

Keep the hose on the ice,
Kurt

"Let It Ride"...

Keeping the momentum going the second week in March. Last night, Jeff, Kris, Ian, Craig, Austin, Adrian and Kurt poured 3 coats of water on the lower ice.
Total Lower = 57 coats
Total Upper = 55 coats

Grant coached shinny tonight and wanted to thank all of us who showed up last night to get the ice ready for another week of skating. Weather is looking to hold in the "cold" position for the weekend.

Our annual Ice Guys "Wrap-up Party" is not planned yet, but we are thinking soon. A lot of people are going away for Vacation for the Easter break, and we never have ice this late... We could have it This Friday March 10th. Let me know what you think.

Keep the hose on the ice,
Kurt

Timing is Everything...

Well we are officially into March and it looks like we are going to have more time with our ice!
Last night Claire, Ian, Craig and Kurt threw down two coats (Light and Medium). The temperature was around -3ºC.
Total upper = 55 coats
Total lower = 54 coats

It looks like there might be some snow over the weekend. If there is a dump I will ask for volunteers to help out.

We tested out the fire pit to make sure it can handle 5 ft flames...
... it passed.

Keep the hose on the ice,

Kurt

Heading into MARCH...

Tonight has set a two year record. Skatable ice in the Month of March.
Thanks to Jeff, Craig, Adrian, Austin, Glenn, Kris, John, and Kurt for putting down three coats on the upper and two on the lower.
Total 53 on the upper.
Total 52 on the lower.

We met a group of hockey players on the lower hockey ice and had asked it they could help scrape giving them time to keep playing. Meanwhile, we started getting the upper ice prepared.
After letting the kids (18-49yr olds), play for a while longer - we found out it was a birthday celebration. One of the players had turned 18 years old and had requested to his parents that all he wanted was to celebrate by playing hockey with is friends and relatives at Rosemont.
Turns out Kurt knew the parents, Kelly and Jody from high school, so we let the play on the condition that they help us scrape after. Great group of players and they did a good job of clearing the lower for water.
Happy Birthday ADAM!

I know it is sad, but we did talk about the wind up party in three weeks or so.
Details to come.

Keeping the hose on the ice,
Thanks,
Kurt

Finally Some HELP and Water

The warm weather has been a problem we can't control. Last Monday we only had Craig Ian and Kurt show up, but the weather was just right to flood. Problem was we needed more help.

Tonight was great we had Claire, Craig, Ian, Kris and Kurt to put down two coats on the lower and one big coat on the upper. This week looks cold enough to keep the ice going for another week. MARCH might be still skatable.

Hope to see more on Thursday night.

Keep the hose on the ice,
Kurt

Hard to believe this was two weeks ago and the weather was -25ºC.

Six years ago, according to Facebook

My scanner was old then , but has been replaced.

Nice Turn-out Tonight...

Big thanks to the team tonight.
Ian, Kris, John, Craig, Andrew P., Mark "Lucky" (The new guy), and Kurt put down two coats.

Total = 48 Coats on each.

We had to hydrate around the fire and wait for the water to freeze before we put down the second coat. As we always chat about a wide range of topics during the hydration process, someone was asking about
Bud.

"Where is Bud?"

We are a Go for Monday,

Keep the hose on the ice,

Kurt

 John's kids made the snow fort on Tuesday since shinny was cancelled they needed to keep playing outside.

 The team warming up by the fire.