Mantua conditions?

[Kent]

Early in the season is often when the slush is bad.  Slush, on early ice, is often caused by heavy snow pushing down on the ice and causing cracks in the ice.  The water comes through the cracks and slush is formed.  Early in the season is prime for slush because the ice is not as thick and so it doesn't take as much snow to cause cracks in the ice.  I don't like to walk in slush because it is miserable and one can never be sure where an open crack might be.