I had about 14" of snow on the pond, and the bottom 4" was slush. Drilling a hole, the top 1/2" of ice was cloudy, with the bottom 4"-5" of ice clear. A week later, the snow on the pond is gone, no more slush, but the whole ice column (still 5" or so) is cloudy. All the snow has been gone off of the pond for about 10 days, but there is still 4" of snow on the ground. I expect that to disappear by Sunday.
The holes that I drilled in the pond have re-frozen at a rate of 1/2" per day, but after they get to about 2" thick, that's where they stay.
