Posted on 12/27/2022 1:37:54 PM PST by chrisinoc
“If you walk on it and you fall through, then it’s not safe.“
Excellent safety tip! - Thank you! lol
If you’re in ARIZONA and see ice… you GOTTA be an idiot to trust it. Up north in Montana, Minnesota, Michigan… ehh, you STILL test it first.
But, ARIZONA?!?!?
“Yeah, I imagine a “frozen lake in Arizona” is quite an ephemeral thing...”
This area of Arizona can get up to 70-100 inches of snow in a season.
I drove by there a lot many years ago on my way to Snowflake and Show Low. I love that part of Arizona on top of the rim.
The winter I spent in Pinetop was absolutely frigid. The coldest place in the country was often Hawley Lake.
And you are using that little bit of energy to hopelessly scratch at the ice with your fingernails to try to pull yourself out. I shudder just thinking about it.
Arizona ice is almost always rotten.
Maybe twice in my lifetime have we had solid, thick, clear ice.
Woods Canyon Lake is at 7,500 feet. You’d be surprised how damn cold the mountains of Arizona are.
I learned about walking on ice watching cartoons at age 2. No doubt these people watched animation of people with super powers. Oh, and don’t walk on ice in a group. A weight distribution thing.
Hear the Otherworldly Sounds of Skating on Thin Ice
Definately not something to do with your snow mobile even when you have a foot of ice. Where Mrs. Pete grew up in N. Illinois, people would go bar hopping across the lakes in winter with their snowmobiles. Invariably some would find the soft spot over the spring and not be found until the spring. (At least the snowmobiles.)
Not in Minnesota.
When I first moved there I was first amazed at the ice fishing houses.
But that was nothing to the shock at seeing a Domino’s Pizza delivery car driving across the lake to one of them.
+1
BTW, for this thread, change your name to Thermophilus...?
Yeah, walking on lake ice, particularly in Arizona, sounds like petting the bison.
They were from India. Asian Indians...not American indigenous first nations type.
Probably not much ice in India, except at high altitudes, so they may not have understood it.
Some folks are trusting souls
“They were from India. Asian Indians...not American indigenous first nations type.”
Yes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VA0C0pzkofk
When I was a kid, after we left Milwaukeestan, we lived in a subdivision where all of the houses backed up against one another, so there was a huge expanse of GRASS for us kids to all play on. It was HEAVEN after living on cement for the earlier part of my life.
Anyhow, Dad would flood a big patch of it in winter and we had out own skating rink. Also, Heaven!
My Grandparents lived on a lake, and when we went to visit on winter weekends, Grandpa would shovel off a patch of snow on the lake ice and again, we’d have a place to skate.
I can’t believe I didn’t grow up to be a Bay City Bomber (female Roller Derby team) because in summer, we were all on rollerskates more often than not.
Wonder why kids don’t skate as much as they used to? Going to the Roller Rink was all the rage when I was a teen.
I guess ‘physically doing something’ is no longer cool. Their loss! ;)
My father did the same thing several times. His father passed when he was 4 and he went out of his way to do things for his children that he never had.
It was fun, but it was also cold and wet.
Watching the Swedes and Finns skating I would leave black ice skating and open ocean skating to them. No problems with rotten ice. (Canadians too. Bobby Hull learned to skate on Frozen over Georgian bay on Lake Huron.) Maybe further North in Wisconsin once Winter really sets in.
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