Rich Dempsey wrote: > Does anyone have experience or advice with canoeing across partial > frozen lakes? How "partially frozen" are you anticipating? A paddled boat can break through almost 3/8" thick ice--although the going gets pretty slow. The hardest part is paddling--unless your paddles are really beefy, you'd be hard pressed to crack through anything more than 1/4" thick to get a stroke in. I've paddled quite a bit in 1/8"-1/4" ice, but the prospect of capsizing and coming up under 1/4" ice made me pretty nervous. If you're talking about paddling the wet spots and then having to walk across ice sheets, then I dunno.. maybe some track shoes with 1/4"-1/2" spikes would make walking a bit easier, and emergency swimming wouldn't be too hard in them. Shawn -- ____©/______ ~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^\ ,/ /~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^ "A person not related to nature is of course neurotic because he is not adapted to reality" -Carl Jung *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Mon Jun 21 1999 - 10:04:02 PDT
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