The snowmobiler skipped over open water?
That’s news to me. I’ve never heard of a snowmobile being able to ride across water. How in the world do you pull that off?
57 ducks don't just sit around while somebody runs them over with a frickin snowmobile.
Hit the gap at high speed. Sometimes you pull it off, sometimes you don't.
I’ve done it dozens of times. Gun the sled, pull back hard on the bars and go right over open water. Not a lot of water, but 20 or 30 feet is pretty easy at 40 or 50 mph on a frozen lake.
I was surprised by this, too, but snowmobiles can really move. Getting one going 80 mpg isn’t that difficult. When you get one going that fast and on sleds, they’ll definitely skip over water. I have good (idiotic) friends who didn’t anticipate a lake freeze and ended up nearly sinking one. They did eventually make it across but were definitely sinking.
Dangerous things, snowmobiles.
“The snowmobiler skipped over open water?
That’s news to me. I’ve never heard of a snowmobile being able to ride across water. How in the world do you pull that off?”
You’ve never been to the Siren, WI. waterskip competition, I see.....
Given the extreme temps over the past month, its quite likely the ducks were congregated on a small patch of open water with the ice surrounding it of sufficient thickness as to allow a snowmobile with sufficient speed to span the limited open water and kill the ducks floating there. Heck, I've seen that many ducks floating in a 15' x 15' spot of open water on the lake I grew up on.......
“The snowmobiler skipped over open water?
That’s news to me. I’ve never heard of a snowmobile being able to ride across water. How in the world do you pull that off?”
Good balance and a wide open throttle is the only way.
(There are events in the winter, too.)