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This turned out to be a lot more difficult than I expected. Having determined the proper location for assembling the tent...
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This turned out to be more difficult than expected. The ice was 18 - 20 inches thick at that location.
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It took a pickaxe, shovel, chain saw, a borrowed power auger from a neighboring fisherman on the ice, axe, and crowbar to get through sufficiently.
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After numerous trips back to the cabin to warm up, changes into dry clothes and to get beer, in about six hours I had enough of a hole to assemble the tent.
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By sunset it was done.
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I'll add video at some future date.
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