Is the Florence Lake ferry running this year?

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Is the Florence Lake ferry running this year?

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After a meet-up with my family in Edison Lake, it would be convenient to get back on the JMT near MTR, I can get a ride over to Florence...

...wondering if I the ferry is happening. The appropriate website which I believe is run by the MTR folks does not indicate otherwise, but thought it worth asking in case anyone had been there recently... :)
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Update: someone on Reddit tells me they took it last week, so that's something.
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I don't give out specific route information, my belief is that it takes away from the whole adventure spirit of a trip, if you need every inch planned out, you'll have to get that from someone else.

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Thanks, I saw that... but didn't want to read TOO much into it. :)
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The Florence Lake Ferry was running as of last Thursday and as of last Sunday. Water level in the lake was not very low.
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Post facto: as of 2 weeks Florence was still mostly full; the ferry was running daily at 8:30-4:30 every 2 hours.

Showed up at 10 from Kaiser Pass Road for the 10:30 and was sold a ticket, did not arrive farside however until 12:15 or so; was told 3 people failed to show for work(!) and the diligent woman running the shop and selling tickets was ferrying people one boatload at a time. We were trip #3.
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