Checking out frozen lakes, etc.

[SNOWINTHETOES]

I have seen many tracks on the little lake behind Stampede Pass, as well as Lost Lake behind Snoqualmie Pass. How many have done that lately?

What do you do, just go out there and hope the ice is thick enough? Does anyone check the thickness, like the Forest Service, etc?

I know I would not want to go under water with my snowmobile gear, could you imagine swimming with a helmet on?

What about Baker Lake behind the microwave tower at Gold Creek?

 

[Rev Rider]

Ya i agree. Theres no way anyone could climb back out of the ice with boots and all that thick gear on. Who wants to ride a flat lake anyways, is my way of thinking...

 

[ericbigbore]

Below 5000 ft an idiot rides on a lake. Let them swim it's called Darwin, with less of them, more pow for us.

 

[Fordman]

Water-X. How do you think we did Callahan in May???

 

[greenskeeper]

I think its stupid.....I fish lost lake and I put a depth finder on it, over 175 feet ................sleds dont floot neather do people....................just my ,02c worth

 

[graveler]

I think its stupid.....I fish lost lake and I put a depth finder on it, over 175 feet ................sleds dont floot neather do people....................just my ,02c worth

curt said we can all come over to ride and Mom is cooking breakfast, staying the night if the pass is closed

 

[greenskeeper]

kitchen is open.................there has been 2 very small slides on woods and steel up near the top............had to go up last night in the snow,a newbee neighbor, went for a ride with another guy that had never been on a sled, the neighbor thought he could ride and took them to the top of woods and steel,new snow about 1 1/2 foot on top,,, he took off down a side road left the other guy setting on the road,,,,,,,after about 45 min the new guy turned around and LEFT, the neighbor was stuck in a drift about 1/2 mile down the road in a drift,,,,,,,,,he had to walk about that far to get cel phone service,,,called his wife,,,,,,she flipped out,,,called me and asked ,, thats putting it nicely,,,,to go get him by now he has been overdue 3 hours, another friend and I took off went up and found him got him out and started back down and ran into search and rescue.....she had called them also........any way I got back home about 9;00 p m..........he was 6 hours overdue..................

 

[ArcticBoy]

Why roll the dice? Not much scaryer than falling through thin ice and not being able to get out or going under the ice and down stream as on a river.

 

[Dave]

Ya i agree. Theres no way anyone could climb back out of the ice with boots and all that thick gear on. Who wants to ride a flat lake anyways, is my way of thinking...

Sometimes you have to ride across flat lakes to get to the good areas... The ice is plenty thick. Spring time is fun when the edges thaw though

 

[Lake Cle Elum]

A lake can look safe and be safe in certain areas and dangerous in others; like where a river feeds in. In my young, stupid days, I crossed Lake Hebgen near West Yellowstone several time even though there are plenty of warnings not to do it.....Once I was doing 70 and realized I was out a long ways and on just slush instead of ice. I opened it up and got across.

Another time, on the same lake, 20 of us left the USS Happy Hour (free plug) and headed toward Lion Rock. One guy slowed down and sunk the back 1/2 of his rental sled about 1/2 mile from shore. Lucky for him there was a solid layer of ice about 2 feet below the thin ice..It took many of our tow ropes tied together to get him out...He was a newbie and spent the rest of the week in his room; drinking heavily.

I'm older and wiser, never again........

 

[4Z]

Crossing lakes when needed is no big deal, the thing you have to watch out for is overflow. Got to stay on the throttle as is is like quick sand, don't stop. If you stop it fills up the suspension with slush and is almost impossible to get yourself out. I have watch folk try to help someone stuck in overflow and it looks like flypaper.

 

[ericbigbore]

Crossing lakes when needed is no big deal, the thing you have to watch out for is overflow. Got to stay on the throttle as is is like quick sand, don't stop. If you stop it fills up the suspension with slush and is almost impossible to get yourself out. I have watch folk try to help someone stuck in overflow and it looks like flypaper.

Depends on the altitude of the lake. Try Lake Cle Elum or Easton.

 

[ArcticBoy]

Depends on the altitude of the lake. Try Lake Cle Elum or Easton.

Yea no kiddin. Are you willing to bet your life??

 

[4Z]

Depends on the altitude of the lake. Try Lake Cle Elum or Easton.

How the overflow works is that the weight of the snow pushes down on the ice and causes water to run over on top the ice and mixes with snow then turns into slush, sometimes several feet deep. I don't know how altitude plays a role. Seen it at mutiple altitudes over the years while I lived in AK.

 

[ericbigbore]

How the overflow works is that the weight of the snow pushes down on the ice and causes water to run over on top the ice and mixes with snow then turns into slush, sometimes several feet deep. I don't know how altitude plays a role. Seen it at mutiple altitudes over the years while I lived in AK.

No thanks, I'll run the vidieo cam.