Althouse: Ice walk.

January 19, 2015

Ice walk.

Lake Mendota, yesterday.

12 comments:

Unknown said...: Nope.; 1/19/15, 12:55 PM
Jaq said...: The clear ice is scarier, but it is stronger.; 1/19/15, 2:40 PM
ken in tx said...: It's 75 and sunny in Austin today. It was bulk trash pick-up day. Private scavengers got most of our stuff yesterday.; 1/19/15, 3:23 PM
Curious George said...: After falling through the ice on my lake up north, I won't go on the ice without picks. I was lucky, it was in about 4' feet of water, but it was still difficult getting back up on the ice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KDqEJlwclg; 1/19/15, 3:50 PM
cf said...: I see only Treacherous passages in the beauty, and we all continue to be in such a fix. I am especially grimacing today at the treachery of our BigGovt Overseers, @nprnews, as they breathlessly preview Obama's State of the union as a primrose path, free money for everyone (except, of course, those evil rich).

Glub. Glub-Glub.; 1/19/15, 4:21 PM
Jaq said...: Ha! The ad embedded in the side of your main page is inviting me to "find Arab women" and is enticing my with a big booty babe with no Hijab, BTW. Probably because I actually look in the Koran when somebody says it says something or other.

I googled the definition of 'mensuration' a couple of weeks ago while reading some Emerson and have been treated to ads for micrometers and other measuring equipment even today.; 1/19/15, 4:37 PM
MadisonMan said...: I was out walking today on the ice. It was creaking and booming. But I could also see it was about 8" thick. The beauty of clear ice!

Slipped a couple times, but no fall. I know more than one person who has fallen on the ice and been concussed.; 1/19/15, 5:13 PM
Ann Althouse said...: "I know more than one person who has fallen on the ice and been concussed."

Don't fall backward.

Lean forward so that if you do fall you fall forward, then you can break your fall.

Also, once you feel you're going to fall, you have a bit of time, and you can get down into a crouch. Then you don't fall so far.

There area some real techniques. Being too afraid of falling can make it worse.

(I've been ice skating almost every day for the last week and seeking out a lot of advice!); 1/19/15, 7:21 PM
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Jaq said...: I have never seen an imbedded ad on this blog

Insufficiently perspicacious!

Sorry :) I admit that word somehow worked itself too high in my word rotation. There is always a better word for it if you take a minute, which I seldom do.; 1/20/15, 7:06 AM
Fprawl said...: Garrison Keillor has a vivid account of a snowmobiler going through the ice for all of us southern chickens who have already imagined it.; 1/20/15, 8:35 AM
Unknown said...: It's freeze and thaw where I live. A frozen lake looks like death to me. I need to get up north more I reckon.; 1/20/15, 10:24 AM