Here are some of the winter pleasures of Moosehead Lake

Here are some of the winter pleasures of Moosehead Lake

Skiing across Moosehead Lake, I imagined the blowing snow to be sand. Drifts became dunes. The frozen lake became a desert. A frigid gust brought me back to reality. The temperature hovered in the low teens, with a negative wind chill. I wouldn’t be seeing any camels or cacti. It’s easy to become fanciful when skiing for miles over such an open expanse. Covering nearly 75,000 acres, Moosehead Lake is the largest lake in Maine, and the largest la…