Lake Dillon Ice Melt Contest

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Lake dillon ice melt contest. The sheriff s office places a clock in a specially made drum in the center of the lake using a hovercraft. The lake dillon ice melt is one of summit rotary s flagship fundraisers. For the uninitiated here s how it works. Every year we haul a giant drum out to the middle of lake dillon.

The first place winner gets 4000 the second and third place winners also get cash prizes of 2000 and 1000. At an elevation of 9111 feet our lake can freeze in thickness up to 18 inches by late fall. The ice melt contest at 5 00 per guess begins early april and will end on april 29. But come it did and in emphatic fashion on march 22 when the end of the annual dillon rotary club ice melt contest arrived with the departure of the ice on logan lake beneath the timing mechanism of the contest raft along with pretty much all the rest of the ice on the lake.

We won t see the water again until late april or early may. The dillon ice melt contest is officially underway with the launch of the ice melt device it s a big orange barrel onto lake dillon. The first place winner gets 4000 the second and third place winners also get cash prizes of 2000 and 1000. The sooner or later came a little later than usual this year.

Dillon who had been doing the ice melt contest for a number of years. The weight went through the ice and the clock stopped last week but nobody could retrieve it until just the other day said raymond graham of the specially designed timing device on the ice melt contest raft placed this winter on logan lake which sits on property. Attached to said drum are watches. This popular fundraiser is sponsored by the rotary club of summit county.

For those who don t know the dillon ice melt contest is sponsored by the rotary club of summit county and gives locals a chance to guess when the ice will melt on lake dillon. Several members of the mountain foothills rotary club decided this would be a good fundraiser for our club. This popular fundraiser is sponsored by the rotary club of summit county. Every year the rotary club meets with the summit county sheriff s office to setup the annual dillon ice melt competition.

The dillon ice melt contest is officially underway with the launch of the ice melt device it s a big orange barrel onto lake dillon. They decorate the drum with christmas lights so spotters can locate it at night. But the suspense remains and continues to build for dillon rotary s 2018 ice melt contest. After the device is placed on the lake the lake dillon ice cam will broadcast live views of the ice device as the ice melts around it the 2005 ice princess the woman who raises the most money.

So with a lot of help from local sponsors and members the first ice melt contest started on december 31 2006 in conjunction with the skate the lake event in evergreen.