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Originally Posted by Lucky1
I had just been reading that some were saying it was unsafe and to be careful and it made me afraid. That and the accident that killed the three year and her mother and grandfather over in Vermont. Too timid here. Will toughen up a bit or button up my mouth!! Please overlook my response.
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You are right to be concerned about ice safety -- too many preventable mishaps every year. I've gone through the ice on a snowmobile -- at night, no less (quite a long time ago returning to shore but where spring conditions had taken a toll on the ice near a marina. I was probably just 10 feet too close to the open water but yet well onto a highly trafficked area. Point being that conditions -- even in familiar areas -- can change, and quickly). It definitely changes one's perspective.
I don't know the details about the Vermont accident. Sounded like a large group of sleds travelling together -- a lot of weight on the new ice if you're close together and going slow. Given the report about how the ice thickness changed dramatically in a short distance, it sounded like parts of where they were riding had been open water only a day or two earlier. This time of year, even a single week of cold weather makes a huge difference in ice thickness.