Be freakin careful snowmobiling on rivers...

tpunx99GSX · 02-06-2010

Im sure some of you have seen the stories on the news about the snowmobiler that went through the ice last night on the St. Croix. I got a call today from my brother, and the guy that is believed to have gone under the ice is my old best friend and guy that i grew up with (lived two doors down from me my whole life), Tim Pease. I really hope they are wrong on this but his girlfriend was down at the river with another friend of ours and confirmed that it was his helmet that was found.
I know there are some snowmobilers on this forum, remember please to stay off the big rivers, they arent safe.
-Tom

**Kracka** · 02-06-2010

Sorry to hear that Tom

Good advice to others though, riding on large rivers that are constantly flowing water is just a bad idea.

TkrPerformance · 02-07-2010

sorry to hear that you knew him. there is no way I would ever ride on moving water

Kevin 1G Drummer · 02-07-2010

Wow, that sucks .

Back when I was into snowmobiling I went across the St. Croix river just south of St. Croix Falls a couple times. It wasn't too bad, but I was definitely not comfortable with it. Went WOT the whole way across and stayed in other people's tracks.

CVD · 02-07-2010

Careful on the big lakes like lake Minnetonka too. There's enough moving water to make some of that ice unsafe, especially near the bridges and channels.

**LingLing** · 02-07-2010

Snowmobiling scares the crap outta me. I've heard so many horror stories I can't get on one..But yet I love riding crotch rockets....lol

**scheides** · 02-07-2010

Sorry to hear that man. I grew up on a really wide section of the Ottertail River near Fergus Falls, and right next to a small bridge. The wide sections of river always were frozen extremely hard, the ice under the bridge was always questionable. I can only remember walking out on it a handful of times in my life, and we were super careful to verify its thickness (it was often clean ice under there, you could literally measure with your eyes). Needless to say, snowmobiles would rip through there regardless, and often there was open water or ice. I would always watch people to see if anyone would go too slow through there, always thought about having to dial 911 and run down there.