ICE SAFETY - A CHILLING reminder

[POk3s]

Before we all got out on first ice this year, I wanted to put this short video out. It was a little bit of a freak deal, but it could’ve ended very badly and really, I think these freak deals are what we all need to be prepared for. The obvious stuff isn’t what gets us.

[A man called horse]

A technique ive not seen anyone else do is the canoe as your sled. I have done this many times. It permits taking along a lot of gear and if you have any thin ice suspicions just straddle the bow or stern till your convinced its safe.

[POk3s]

  I would prefer to use my spud and check the ice, as I go out.  After a while you will be able to tell what kind of ice you are getting ready to walk onto, just by the sound of your spud hitting it.  If I have to rely on a canoe to save me, if I fall in, I'm not going!

Haha I agree! I can usually just tell by the “feel”. I guess that’s both the sound and the “bounce” or non bounce of it when it hits the ice.