You know it's at least a month till some unknown day in January before the Lake Winnipesaukee ice is safe enough for walking on it. The Winni Marine live feed, Weirs Channel water temp page says the Lake Winnipesaukee water temp is right now about 41 to 42 degrees, and it needs to drop to below 34-degrees to freeze on the top of the lake water.
Here's the place to go ......
www.plymouth.edu/campus-life/ice-arena ...... Route 93 - Exit 25, for recreational ice skating where you can rent skates and practice your ice skating.
What works incredibly good to support beginner ice skaters is a second hand ambulatory care walker. Remove the four rubber tips and replace them with similar tips made with VINYL and these VINYL tips glide incredibly good over the ice. Heath's Hdwe, Center Harbor is the only hardware store that has these VINYL white or black tips or cups and they cost about 4/$3.99. For some unknown reason, vinyl cups will glide across the ice much smoother and faster with less friction than rubber cups/tips.
If you see some old guy with an ambulatory care walker covered with foam noodles and vinyl tips, plus wearing a foam noodle waist belt while ice-skating around mega-multi-million-dollar Governor's Island, that is definitely NOT me ......
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