View Single Post
Old 04-18-2014, 11:00 AM   #7
VitaBene
Senior Member
 
VitaBene's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Moultonborough
Posts: 3,532
Thanks: 1,574
Thanked 1,608 Times in 823 Posts
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by dippasan View Post
I crossed about 100 feet of open water, at night, by accident,on Rangeley lake a few years ago. I skipped right across before I even knew what happened.

Yup.....needed a baby wipe when I got back to camp.
This is one of the reasons it was outlawed in NH. During the day, people would be skimming the open water. Then, at night, when other snowmobilers are headed home they mistakenly follow the track from the daytime skimmers into open water, panic, let off the throttle and go in.

THEN they often drown because they cannot haul themselves out of the water (no grip on the ice). I recommend ice picks for all that go on water.
VitaBene is offline   Reply With Quote