Along The Way
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Ice Capades
Just when you think the ice is thick enough for ice-fishing someone goes for a swim.
Well up to the waist anyway as the woman standing behind the sled discovered when she fell through the ice.
The sled driver took her to shore to dry out.
Actually the ice on Upper Kananaskis Lake is more than thick enough for ice-fishing, however having said that you need to pay attention to factors contributing to thin ice like where creeks enter the lake with the water flowing beneath the ice keeping the ice thin beneath a covering of snow.
If you expand the photo and look at the lake shoreline just over the skidoo, you can see three hikers standing on the Rawson Lake trail where Rawson creek flows in to the upper lake from a hanging valley above.
Check the thickness of the ice with an auger to be sure.
Later on in the day we visited Ghost Lake west of Cochrane AB, where vehicles were driving on the lake to ice fish, go figure!
