Essential Ice Safety | Expert Guide to Checking Ice Thickness on Frozen Lakes
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- Опубліковано 4 лис 2023
- It’s the beginning of winter and we have to open up trails on the frozen lakes. Follow us along our work and learn about how we think about ice safety, ice thickness and the essential gear that keeps us safe.
Venturing onto ice is a task that demands respect and knowledge. It's crucial to recognize the strength and behavior of ice to ensure safe passage. You also need to know how you check the ice. Finally, you need to know what to do if your friend is going through the ice.
The situation on a frozen lake can change from a nice Sunday walk into a fight for your life in a second. One mistake and you end up in the cold water. Then you must know how to get out of the water. After that, you are wet and cold. If you manage to come out of the water it can quickly be a dangerous survival situation where you can get hypothermia.
Our advice to you is clear. Don’t do this at home if you don't have the knowledge and the right gear!
Stay safe and see you in the next video.
Matti & Stina
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Thank you thats really good advice.
Good advice. I lived in Alaska and flew my Cub on skis off lakes and ran snowmobile on lake. Now living in Wyoming. I ice fish and do some skating. Always have ice picks around neck and ice pick ski pole when skating to check ice.
Great to see both of your border collies having a fantastic time, stay safe
Johnny and Annie really love snowmobile and quads. The love actually all kinds of engines that makes lots of noise.
😀
/Matti
Love the green tape! 😂
It’s really good and beautiful!!!
😂
/Matti
Good video on ice. We have lots of small creeks here, they eat out the ice from underneath close to shore.
looks ok on top but not really.
Yeah that is the problem with creeks. Thank you for watching!
Really handy video! I'm hoping to get out on the ice more this year. Thanks for showing how to minimise the risk.
Be careful and stay alive!!!
Mycket bra video om säkerhet på isen 👍
Tack!
As children, while skating during winter time, we never went on ice thinner than 5 cm...
Thats maybe one reason why you still are alive… ;-)
/Matti
I went thru early ice about 10 years ago. Good ice in the morning, same path in returning in the afternoon & ice had weakened.
That’s really dangerous. Was this in the end of the season? In northern Sweden we got that kind of situation during late spring. Just before the ice break up.
It’s good that you are still alive!
/Matti
@@JOKKMOKKGUIDERNA Ice had just capped over maybe two days, 25-30 cm of good ice when I checked in the morning. I must have hit a area with a spring coming back in. I fished the same area two days later and ice was 50 cm.
I love ice fishing and will always push to get out early in the season.
Hi guys, thanks for that. But can you please give me the correct link for the ice picks as the one you gave links to an Osmo camera?
Hi! The link should be fixed now. Hope it works: geni.us/Tv0ao
/Stina
@@JOKKMOKKGUIDERNA great, thanks!
Thanks from Finland for this. As a German it feels nice to get some information in English about similar environments! And I've been looking for an easy to carry ice-pick for a while. But your link directs to a camera. Would you mind sharing the brand you use there?
Glad you enjoyed it and thank you for letting us know about the missleading link. It should now be corrected. ;-)
The long ice pick we use is really old and I don't know what brand it is... /Stina
Step #! - Once I opened website that converts centimeters to inches I understood how thick the ice should be.
It never occured to me that there are safety designed throw ropes. Have you or Stina ever had to throw the safety rope to the other? Have you ever had to throw a safety rope to a guest while on a tour?
Love the drone overhead footage in all your videos.
Thanks, Matti, for showing Meee those safety ice picks you have around your neck.
Have you noticed how many people & how many records have been broken by other when skiing across ice as they head toward the South Pole, this year?
Warm Regards from Reno, Nevada U.S.A.
Hello!
We have never used the throwing lines for bringing people out of water except for training situations. But the throwing lines are also very handsome as drying lines for wet clothes.
😀
I haven’t looked into South Pole skiers so I didn’t know about all the records. Interesting.
/Matti
Good vid, safety first always. Dangerous stuff. Worked and inspected on some big river running loading docks, loading off loading machines and barges. Bad things can happen fast.@@JOKKMOKKGUIDERNA
Thank you. Really useful video, falling through ice scares me! Have you ever fallen through and self rescued using the ice claws? I should do a training, but as you say, not a nice thing to do.🥶 Great channel.
I have never falling through the ice and using the ice claw in a real situation.
I have been on ice that breaks on shallow rivers or falling in to cracks between the ice and riverbanks. Until today it has never ended up in a really bad situation. …but that’s scary enough for me. 😀
/Matti
@@JOKKMOKKGUIDERNA Lucky you. 😀For training, I suppose they use wet suits to limit the shock. Best Peter