{"id":19357,"date":"2015-03-01T08:46:29","date_gmt":"2015-03-01T13:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=19357"},"modified":"2015-03-01T08:48:50","modified_gmt":"2015-03-01T13:48:50","slug":"be-careful-on-that-ice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2015\/03\/01\/be-careful-on-that-ice\/","title":{"rendered":"Be careful on that ice!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_19358\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2015\/03\/brian-skiing-copy.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19358\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-19358 \" alt=\"Racing for home across the Racquette River ice with a wet set of britches.  \" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2015\/03\/brian-skiing-copy-300x267.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2015\/03\/brian-skiing-copy-300x267.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2015\/03\/brian-skiing-copy-150x133.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2015\/03\/brian-skiing-copy-450x401.jpg 450w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2015\/03\/brian-skiing-copy.jpg 1304w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-19358\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Racing for home across the Racquette River ice with a wet set of britches.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It&#8217;s been a wicked cold winter.\u00a0 An article in the Adirondack Daily Enterprise last week put the thickness of ice on one North Country lake near Saranac Lake at a whopping thirty inches.\u00a0 That sounds bomb-proof.\u00a0 But it&#8217;s still important to use caution when playing in the back country.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, while snow-shoeing on a stretch of the Racquette River near Tupper Lake, I plunged through a rotten section of ice and got soaked to the waist.\u00a0 Crawling out, thankfully, was no sweat.<\/p>\n<p>It could have been a lot worse.\u00a0 Just last month, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northcountrypublicradio.org\/news\/story\/27565\/20150220\/both-snowmobiles-recovered-from-river-2nd-man-still-missing\">two North Country men died in northern Franklin County<\/a> after their snowmobiles went through the ice.<\/p>\n<p>But even my little misadventure made for\u00a0 chilly trek back to the trailhead.\u00a0 (It&#8217;s no fun to be out and about when it&#8217;s 11 degrees F and your backside is dripping&#8230;) And it was a sharp reminder that even after a true Adirondack February, skiers, snowshoers, ice fishermen, and sledders should use all the caution in the world when traveling on lakes and rivers.<\/p>\n<p>I got overly confident and casual and got spanked.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s a primer from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redcross.ca\/what-we-do\/swimming-and-water-safety\/swimming,-boating-and-water-safety-tips\/ice-safety\">Canadian Red Cross on ice safety.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a wicked cold winter.\u00a0 An article in the Adirondack Daily Enterprise last week [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19357"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19357"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19360,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19357\/revisions\/19360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}