Re: [Paddlewise] Travel ing across "hard water"

At 10:40 AM 6/19/99 -0600, Rich Dempsey wrote:
>Does anyone have experience or advice with canoeing across partial frozen
>lakes?
>
Two thoughts for you. First, in an older book -- can't remember the name,
for some reason, getting old, I guess -- but it was something like The
Compleat Guide to Wilderness Canoeing, by John West Davidson and James
Rugge (now why did I remember that) there's a shore chapter about crossing
spring ice. I don't know how far to trust these guys.

Better advice comes from a guy that's crossed a lot of ice on the way to
both Poles -- Will Steiger. Up until last month, he was running a web page
for Land's End -- it's still up -- talking about various northern
adventures. This url:

http://beyond.landsend.com/steger/prev_journals.html?sid=0928316683030

will take you to the journal master page. Go to early February this year --
he and his wife spent the late winter and spring living in a tent on a
small island in a Minnesota lake, during spring breakup. There's some good
information there, but more towards April.

Also, go back to about April of last year on the same master menu. Steiger
and his wife basically walked across Lake Nipigon in Ontatio (around 100
miles) close to breakup, dragging a canoe. Lots of good stuff there that
may be of help to you.

Hope this helps.

-- Wes 


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