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TheMobyDicks t1_j8em5ud wrote

Reply to comment by ranaparvus in Hey Vermonters, stay off the f*cking ice. by zombienutz1

Lake Bomoseen is weird. The channel at the south end freezes before the lake and then once the lake is fully frozen the channel opens up.

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SmoothSlavperator t1_j8expu5 wrote

Bomoseen has springs and shit in it that create thin spots even during cold winters...and then you have all that milfoil which causes soft spots in towards shore....and then you have pressure ridges. You kind of have to look at it, pay attention and talk to people to kind of know where everything is year to year.

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[deleted] t1_j8ngcng wrote

Channel is almost never safe to walk on. It's moving water.

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TheMobyDicks t1_j8rola0 wrote

Yeah. Grew up there. Never saw anybody on the channel. But the lake was like a city for ice fisherman. This is a long time ago when winters were a lot colder and longer. Way before the digital age and everybody was into ice fishing.

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[deleted] t1_j8rwv3d wrote

I would blast top speed up the channel on a snowmobile when I was young and dumb.

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TheMobyDicks t1_j8rysua wrote

That's bad ass.

When I was a kid - in the early 80s - some drunks were smashing shantys with their truck in the middle of the night and they killed a guy sleeping in one.

What I did a couple times - admittedly completely asshole move and deserved for the fisherman to beat the shit outta me - was borrow my brother's Big Red Three-Wheeler (yeah, I'm that old) and ride down a line of tip-ups snapping them like twigs while doors busted open on shantys and some angry ass Vermonter would come flying out howling at me. I know it's bad but I'm laughing right now at it because that memory is so damn vivid. Good times.

Of course, as an adult, I got my jeep stolen in DC, so, y'know...karma.

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