When is it safe to walk on a frozen lake?

[Beanz]

If you plan to walk of a frozen lake you will need to take precautions. Firstly you need to make sure are tethered to something. I suggest a cooker, something solid, heavy and secure.

Make sure you are securely fastened to the cooker and only then attempt to go into the lake. I would take the cooker with you and carry it to the centre of the lake. As long as you are ropes to it you will be fine.

It would be nice if Greenbeanz could go with you, it would be a nice day out for you both. Obviously Greenbeanz would probably need his own cooker, and then for maximum safety you could rope up to each others.

Bilbo are you on a mission to restart the feeblest crusade ever? One where you merely encourage the heathen atheists to partake in stupid pranks and die in the process, or kill themselves with an unholy secular fervour? I used to think all the jokes about you getting a job were sour grapes but now i see how lazy you really are.

Also your plan is fatally flawed as it requires me getting to South Korea locating a cooker, and helping Miles because he is skinny, to carry his to the lake, before going back for mine. Then there is the ropes, something which you, who must surely be an ex boy scout, would know about and I, having not partaken in auto erotic bondage would be clueless on.

Thanks for the lovely sentiment though.










you are forgetting one thing














I bounce

[Youngblood]

We are at the usa/canada border, and snow mobilers sometimes play a game called drunk chicken. It's called that because most sober have enough sense not to do it.

There is a major river that separates us geographically. At night on really cold nights the open water freezes over and creates a temporary ice bridge linking us that can be crossed only by fast moving snowmachines. It unfreezes by the next afternoon. Walking you'd most certainly go in.

The thrill is in the sounds of it cracking below you and breaking up behind you as you go. It's about a mile across and deep, a shipping channel. You can go under at any time and some do and die, but most make it. You can't take the same route as the person before you as it often opens up immediately or now is too weak there.

I've done it. Once. Drunk. It made me instantly sober. Never again. The shitting of pants has never been my strong suit.

[Kev]

We are at the usa/canada border, and snow mobilers sometimes play a game called drunk chicken. It's called that because most sober have enough sense not to do it.

There is a major river that separates us geographically. At night on really cold nights the open water freezes over and creates a temporary ice bridge linking us that can be crossed only by fast moving snowmachines. It unfreezes by the next afternoon. Walking you'd most certainly go in.

The thrill is in the sounds of it cracking below you and breaking up behind you as you go. It's about a mile across and deep, a shipping channel. You can go under at any time and some do and die, but most make it. You can't take the same route as the person before you as it often opens up immediately or now is too weak there.

I've done it. Once. Drunk. It made me instantly sober. Never again. The shitting of pants has never been my strong suit.

So Canadians are truly desperate to get across the border then? Is it to escape the socialism and national mediocrity?

[Youngblood]

We are at the usa/canada border, and snow mobilers sometimes play a game called drunk chicken. It's called that because most sober have enough sense not to do it.

There is a major river that separates us geographically. At night on really cold nights the open water freezes over and creates a temporary ice bridge linking us that can be crossed only by fast moving snowmachines. It unfreezes by the next afternoon. Walking you'd most certainly go in.

The thrill is in the sounds of it cracking below you and breaking up behind you as you go. It's about a mile across and deep, a shipping channel. You can go under at any time and some do and die, but most make it. You can't take the same route as the person before you as it often opens up immediately or now is too weak there.

I've done it. Once. Drunk. It made me instantly sober. Never again. The shitting of pants has never been my strong suit.

So Canadians are truly desperate to get across the border then? Is it to escape the socialism and national mediocrity?

Our beer and liquor stores close too early.

[Nameless]

We are at the usa/canada border, and snow mobilers sometimes play a game called drunk chicken. It's called that because most sober have enough sense not to do it.

There is a major river that separates us geographically. At night on really cold nights the open water freezes over and creates a temporary ice bridge linking us that can be crossed only by fast moving snowmachines. It unfreezes by the next afternoon. Walking you'd most certainly go in.

The thrill is in the sounds of it cracking below you and breaking up behind you as you go. It's about a mile across and deep, a shipping channel. You can go under at any time and some do and die, but most make it. You can't take the same route as the person before you as it often opens up immediately or now is too weak there.

I've done it. Once. Drunk. It made me instantly sober. Never again. The shitting of pants has never been my strong suit.

So Canadians are truly desperate to get across the border then? Is it to escape the socialism and national mediocrity?

Our beer and liquor stores close too early.

You're all living in the wrong province, hence why, 11:00 pm here for normal stores

[Gandalf]

Thanks for the replies chaps.

I've just been out there and as usual it is frozen solid. It is about -4'C out there today and the ice does look thick and set, but I'm not going to go on it. I will just stick to my exercise routine of walking around it.

There is no way I am ever going to be able to carry a cooker down there.

[CutMeMick]

I say you try diving in it 1st like so...

[CFH]

Thanks for the replies chaps.

I've just been out there and as usual it is frozen solid. It is about -4'C out there today and the ice does look thick and set, but I'm not going to go on it. I will just stick to my exercise routine of walking around it.

There is no way I am ever going to be able to carry a cooker down there.

Not with that attitude.

[CFH]

We are at the usa/canada border, and snow mobilers sometimes play a game called drunk chicken. It's called that because most sober have enough sense not to do it.

There is a major river that separates us geographically. At night on really cold nights the open water freezes over and creates a temporary ice bridge linking us that can be crossed only by fast moving snowmachines. It unfreezes by the next afternoon. Walking you'd most certainly go in.

The thrill is in the sounds of it cracking below you and breaking up behind you as you go. It's about a mile across and deep, a shipping channel. You can go under at any time and some do and die, but most make it. You can't take the same route as the person before you as it often opens up immediately or now is too weak there.

I've done it. Once. Drunk. It made me instantly sober. Never again. The shitting of pants has never been my strong suit.

So Canadians are truly desperate to get across the border then? Is it to escape the socialism and national mediocrity?

Our beer and liquor stores close too early.