Sled vs. 4 Wheeler

[thehunter]

Madd Matt is right. Last Saturday my fishing bud & I had to ride double on a quad because of lack of snow...instead of taking two liquid cooled sleds. On the way back in to Camp Perry we found several 12" cracks with only about 4" thickness of ice at the edges! My friend drove across without me on the quad but pulling 2 Clam shelters with our stuff. Guess what? As he went across a piece of ice from the edge broke off! Piece was about 3' wide and 6' long! Well needless to say I tried to pick a spot down the crack to jump across. Did that with great anxiety, and the thought of never going out there with any kind of SOUTH WIND (wind was SW). I had a throw rope bag clipped to my backpack I was wearing, but stupid me did not think to throwing the line over to my fishing bud before jumping that crack! So there is an idea......take a throw bag/rope with you and use it in a situation like I was in. (they sell an orange bag with a rope stuffed in it for just that purpose) CLAM makes one but you can make your own too. Just make sure the rope is wrapped such that it won't get tangled when tossed.