Our old time Maine contact, Eric, reported that until recent years, huge eighteen wheeler trucks loaded with a mountain of timber used to barrel down frozen Moose Head Lake in northern Maine. They found the 40 some mile flat stretch the easiest path to convey their product from forest to cleared southern roads. This mild, crazy winter of ‘07, ice fishers couldn’t even drive their snowmobiles with supplies onto the ice least it crack. Maine's Kennebec River used to freeze solidly for months. Ice from its waters was so pure, it was famously cut into blocks from mid-nineteenth century on, blanketed with sawdust, and carried by ship through the Panama Canal to San Francisco and Calcutta.... See full document!